Trump-backed candidate Nasry Asfura won Honduras’ presidential election, electoral authorities said Wednesday afternoon, ending a weeks-long count

Three weeks after Hondurans went to the polls in November, a winner has yet to be announced. In an election marked by irregularities, Donald Trump’s intervention before the polls opened in November was the most bizarre.

Honduras electoral officials have launched a special count of the final set of votes in the country’s November presidential election, after three weeks of uncertainty, swirling accusations and pressure from the Trump administration to wrap up the results.

The Department of Homeland Security’s attorneys inside New York’s immigration courts are moving to close asylum claims en masse, arguing that people in deportation proceedings have no right to seek asylum in the United States because they’re eligible to do so in three other countries the U.

Many of the people of Honduras, they said it was a Biden setup,” Trump said Nov. 30, in one of several comments justifying the pardon. The pardon came as Trump weighed in on the Honduran presidential election and pushed for his preferred candidate,