PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump announced on Friday afternoon his intention to grant “a Full and Complete Pardon” to a former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who was found guilty by an American jury last year of conspiring to import cocaine into the United States in a sweeping drug case.

The pardon announcement came in a pair of social media posts by Trump, who has repeatedly weighed in on that country’s upcoming election Sunday. He had endorsed a candidate, a former mayor from the conservative National Party named Nasry “Tito” Asfura.

“Tito and I can work together to fight the Narcocommunists, and bring needed aid to the people of Honduras,” wrote Trump, who was spending the holiday weekend at his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Asfura, who belongs to the same party as Hern

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