STONE INTERVENES
Stone, a South Florida-based conservative commentator and long-time Trump adviser, had for months advocated for Hernandez’s release. He said on his radio show on Sunday that he had given Trump Hernandez’s letter.
On the show, Hernandez’s wife, Ana García de Hernández, said Stone’s advocacy for her husband had made a “huge difference” in the president’s decision.
The White House official said Trump had not seen the letter before announcing his intent to pardon Hernandez on Friday.
Stone did not respond to requests for comment.
The letter from Hernandez appeared designed to appeal to Trump‘s sense of injustice and was infused with flattery, calling the president “Your Excellency” and referring to their shared “conservative values.”
US Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s top Democrat, blasted Trump‘s decision in remarks on the chamber’s floor on Tuesday.
“It would be bad enough on its own for Donald Trump to pardon this horrible drug trafficker, but for him to pardon this drug lord while putting a quarter of our military in the Caribbean, right nearby Honduras, to fight drug trafficking, makes an utter mockery of Donald Trump‘s supposed desire to root out all drug trafficking,” Schumer said.
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