Just days before a tense presidential election in Honduras, President Donald Trump threw himself into the center of the race.
Trump not only pledged his support for the conservative candidate in Sunday’s vote — drawing criticism that he was interfering in another country’s election — he also said he plans to pardon a former Honduran president — a convicted drug trafficker who was sentenced last year to 45 years in a U.S. federal prison for smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine to the United States and turning his country into a “narco state.”
