President Trump on Thursday tweeted a clip of a Fox News host calling on him to pardon longtime ally Roger Stone.
“Trump could end this travesty in an instant with a pardon and there are indications tonight that he will do that,” the clip showed Tucker Carlson saying Wednesday night.
“Democrats will become unhinged if Trump pardons Stone, but they’re unhinged anyway,” Carlson added.
Trump did not add any commentary in the posting.
Stone, the 67-year-old self-described dirty trickster who was convicted last November of lying to Congress about the Russia collusion investigation and witness intimidation, is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in federal court in Washington, DC.
Carlson called US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, a President Barack Obama appointee who will sentence Stone, an “open Democratic partisan.”
“What has happened to Roger Stone should never happen to anyone in this country of any political party,” Carlson said. “It’s completely immoral, it’s wrong. Fixing it is the right thing to do.”
The president on Tuesday granted pardons and commuted the sentences of 11 people, including former NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik, financier Michael Milken and former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.
Talking to reporters last week in the White House, Trump wouldn’t say whether he would pardon Stone, but blasted prosecutors because “people were hurt viciously and badly by these corrupt people.”
“I don’t want to say yet,” Trump answered when asked about Stone.
The four prosecutors withdrew from Stone’s case earlier this month after the Department of Justice overruled their recommendation that the longtime political strategist serve up to nine years in prison.
The following day, after Trump tweeted that Stone’s prosecution had been a “miscarriage of justice,” the Department of Justice sent the federal judge a memo requesting leniency.
It did not seek a specific sentence.
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