The former president of Honduras thanked President Trump on Wednesday in his first message since being pardoned and released just one year into his 45-year prison term for enabling drug traffickers to flood the U.S. with 400 tons of cocaine.

“THANK GOD! All glory be to Him. I’m a free man,” Juan Orlando Hernández wrote on social media Wednesday evening. “I said it as I left my home, I said it as I was wrongfully convicted, and I will say it again now that I have my liberty. I am innocent .”

The two-term Honduran president went on to express “profound gratitude” to Trump “for having the courage to defend justice at a moment when a weaponized system refused to acknowledge the truth. You reviewed the facts, recognized the injustice and acted with conviction. You changed my life, sir,

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