Ex-Honduran president thanks God – and Trump – for drug-trafficking pardon

Juan Orlando Hernandez thanked the Lord for being a free man' and then Trump for changing my life'

Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez recently thanked God and Donald Trump - in that order - for being pardoned by the latter of a drug trafficking conviction won by federal US prosecutors less than two years earlier.

Speaking in a video posted to social media and referring to the US president, Hernandez eventually said Trump changed my life, and I'll never forget that". But first he praised God, saying in Spanish, You saw the injustice and suffering, and in your infinite mercy you helped us.