[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 200 (Monday, December 1, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H4956]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          JUAN ORLANDO HERNANDEZ, FORMER PRESIDENT OF HONDURAS

  (Ms. BALINT asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BALINT. Mr. Speaker, last Friday President Trump said he would 
give a full and complete pardon to Juan Orlando Hernandez, the corrupt 
former President of Honduras. It is disgusting.
  Trump is going to erase a major drug trafficking conviction against 
Hernandez, who is serving 45 years in Federal prison for his crimes. He 
was convicted by an American jury for working with drug cartels to move 
400 tons of cocaine through Honduras to the United States. He got 
millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes.
  What the hell is the President of the United States doing giving this 
thug a full pardon?
  He is a man who helped bring deadly drugs into our communities. Trump 
is literally rewarding a narco-terrorist.
  What will it take for my Republican colleagues to speak up?
  There is no way to spin this. He is literally standing with a drug 
trafficker and against us.

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