"The pardon comes as Trump wages a deadly campaign against alleged Venezuelan drug boats including one strike in which the survivors were ordered to be killed. The president has claimed that Hernandez's imprisonment was the result of a political prosecution by President Joe Biden's administration. But the lead investigator on the case that resulted in the conviction, Emil Bove, went on to become Trump's personal lawyer and then a Trump judicial appointee."
"FIELDS: These are the flashy pardson, these are ones that catches the news. When you look at what's actually happening, you have Alice Marie Johnson, someone who the president pardoned in his first term, who's overseeing a large majority of all these pardons giving a second chance to countless Americans who would be left in the shadows in a dark, cold prison cell. This president is giving these people extra life. Alice Marie Johnson is the best test"
President Trump pardoned former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was sentenced to 45 years for drug trafficking. The pardon coincided with U.S. strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats, including an attack where survivors were reportedly ordered to be killed. Trump claimed Hernandez's prosecution was politically motivated by the Biden administration. Emil Bove, the lead investigator in the case, later became Trump's personal lawyer and a judicial appointee. Critics questioned pardoning someone prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Defenders cited other pardons such as Alice Marie Johnson's as examples of clemency giving second chances.
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