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President of Honduras from 2014 to 2022
Donald Trump has used his clemency power to pardon or commute multiple people tied to large-scale drug trafficking, drug marketplaces and related criminal enterprises — most prominently Ross Ulbricht ...
Donald Trump has pardoned or promised clemency to multiple people convicted of federal drug offenses across his presidencies, most prominently Ross Ulbricht (Silk Road) in January 2025 and — in late N...
Donald Trump has issued clemency to multiple high‑profile figures convicted of drug offenses across his two presidencies, including a recent full pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Herná...
President Trump announced and then carried out a pardon of former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in 2024 by a U.S. court on drug‑trafficking and weapons charges and sente...
President Trump has issued clemency to a large and growing number of federal offenders across two nonconsecutive presidencies: 237 acts of clemency (143 pardons, 94 commutations) during his first term...
President Trump said he pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández because Hernández had been “treated very harshly and unfairly” and had portrayed himself as a political victim in a le...
President Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, freeing him from a 45-year U.S. prison sentence for conspiring to import hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States ....
Donald Trump announced he will grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in March 2024 of conspiring to import cocaine into the United S...
There is no single, verifiable total of "convicted drug offenders" pardoned by President Trump in the provided reporting; major outlets and official pages document prominent drug-related clemencies bu...
Donald Trump has granted clemency to high-profile individuals convicted of federal drug crimes in multiple actions: reporting shows he pardoned or commuted at least 13 people convicted of federal drug...
Available reporting in the supplied sources does not say Donald Trump has been accused of possessing or using cocaine; those sources instead document Trump’s rhetoric and policy actions about cocaine ...
Presidential clemency records show Republican Donald Trump has issued more high-profile pardons or commutations of people convicted in major narcotics cases than recent presidents, including at least ...
President Donald Trump announced he will grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted in a U.S. court in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years for...
President Donald Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández — a Central American leader convicted in a U.S. federal court of conspiring to traffic massive quantities of cocaine to...
Donald Trump issued roughly 237 pardons and commutations during his first presidency (2017–2021), including 144 pardons and about 93 commutations depending on counting method cited in Justice Departme...
At least two convicted drug traffickers are documented in the provided reporting as having been pardoned by President Donald Trump: former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández and a Baltimore dru...
President Trump has pardoned several people whose federal convictions involved narcotics trafficking or distribution; among those documented in the reporting provided are former Honduran president Jua...
Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández (JOH), who was convicted in the U.S. in 2024 and sentenced to 45 years for drug-trafficking and weapons charges, was pardoned by U.S. President Donald ...
President Donald Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández, who had been sentenced in the U.S. to 45 years for conspiring to move hundreds of tons of cocaine toward the United St...
President Donald Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernández after publicly portraying Hernández as a victim of political persecution and unfair treatment, a narrative reinforced b...