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President Trump is set to issue a new pardon.
A new report by Fox News has revealed that President Trump is set to pardon the former Governor of Puerto Rico.
In the report, it was revealed that White House insiders have revealed that Trump is set to pardon Republican Governor Wanda Vazquez after she was indicted by the Biden DOJ on bribery charges.
Fox News reported on the thought process behind Trump’s pardon:
President Donald Trump will pardon former Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced and her co-defendants, Fox News has learned.
“This entire case is an example of political prosecution. In August of 2022, Wanda Vazquez faced bribery charges related to the financing of her 2020 gubernatorial campaign. Ms. Vazquez’ pardon materials state that there was never any element of a quid pro quo deal and that her prosecution was politically motivated. The investigation into Ms. Vazquez began 10 days after she endorsed President Trump in 2020,” a White House official told Fox News.
The White House official also told Fox News that Trump will pardon Vázquez’s co-defendants, Julio Martin Herrera-Velutini and Mark Rossini, a former FBI agent.
“The investigation, she contends, not only monitored her campaign, but also included a monitoring of the Trump campaign. Additionally, Ms. Vazquez believes that there was no bribery at all because the discussions with the banker concerned a matter of agreeing on policy with a potential donor, and not taking action in exchange for a material gain. This case bears similarities to that of Alexander Sittenfeld, who received a pardon in May of 2025,” the official added.
In 2022, Vázquez was arrested on bribery charges linked to her 2020 campaign. She was accused of engaging in a bribery scheme from December 2019 through June 2020, according to The Associated Press. The outlet noted at the time that Vázquez was serving as governor when the alleged scheme unfolded.
Here’s a photo of Vazquez when she was the Governor of Puerto Rico:
BREAKING: President Trump is pardoning Puerto Rico’s former governor Wanda Vázquez, sources say. https://t.co/bu7Rtpv6TE
— CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) January 16, 2026
Bloomberg Law reported Vazquez’s initial acceptance of a plea deal:
The Justice Department accused the legal team for Puerto Rico’s former governor of giving a judge a “completely fabricated” account of how prosecutors determined to settle her bribery case.
Federal prosecutors were responding to the defense’s court filing Tuesday that sought to “clarify the record” by countering Bloomberg Law reporting that political pressure led DOJ leaders to dismiss the politician’s felony charges just ahead of trial.
In a Wednesday filing, prosecutors didn’t dispute that political intervention prompted DOJ’s about-face to provide a more lenient plea deal. Instead, they contended counsel for former Gov. Wanda Vázquez Garced had falsified dialogue from their May meeting at department headquarters, including by fabricating a quote from DOJ leadership purporting to concede “the indictment has collapsed.”
Prosecutors told the court Wednesday they stand by their case and are prepared to go to trial if necessary on the original felony allegations that Vázquez Garced, who endorsed President Donald Trump in 2020, took bribes from a billionaire bank owner who’s been represented since 2024 by Trump’s former defense lawyer.
DOJ reached a plea deal in June with the defendants on a misdemeanor count of unlawful campaign contributions, which may allow them to avoid prison time. But rather than citing the settlement’s legal merits, prosecutors said in the Wednesday filing that the negotiated resolution was “consistent with the enforcement priorities of the Justice Department” and “served to conserve prosecutorial and judicial resources.”
That contradicts the account presented a day earlier by Vázquez Garced’s legal team. Her lawyers argued that US District Judge Silvia L. Carreño-Coll “generated damaging media coverage” in Bloomberg Law “that distorts reality” by declaring in a July 8 order that the case settled through “directives presumably issued by Main Justice.”
Rather than DOJ political leadership ordering prosecutors to settle, the former governor’s attorneys said the department was persuaded by the defense’s presentation of new evidence disclosing weaknesses in the government’s case.
“When confronted with the overwhelming evidence that contradicted their conspiracy theory,” the defense lawyers said in their filing, “prosecutors could not provide reasonable explanations for proceeding with the indictment.”
When Associate Deputy Attorney General Aakash Singh, who was leading the May meeting, asked prosecutors why they proceeded with the indictment, “their response was simply: ‘We took our chances,’” Vázquez Garced’s lawyers added.
President Trump, in December of last year, pardoned Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas), who was also indicted on bribery charges.
Take a look:
I want to thank President Trump for his tremendous leadership and for taking the time to look at the facts. I thank God for standing with my family and I during this difficult time. This decision clears the air and lets us move forward for South Texas.
This pardon gives us a… pic.twitter.com/ajNvHq6rG0
— Rep. Henry Cuellar (@RepCuellar) December 3, 2025
However, shortly after Trump pardoned Cuellar, the former lawmaker announced he was running again for Congress, which infuriated Trump.
NEW: Trump says he’s now fighting to remove “weak and incompetent” Texas Democrat Henry Cuellar from Congress.
Trump recently pardoned Cuellar while he was facing 20 years in prison for bribery and money laundering — and Cuellar thanked him by running again as a Democrat. pic.twitter.com/sH0bl3vu9a
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) January 6, 2026
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