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Roger Stone praised President Donald Trump Wednesday night, comparing him to Abraham Lincoln, in his first post-pardon interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Trump pardoned several important figures involved in the Mueller investigation including Stone, Paul Manafort, Charles Kushner and 24 others Wednesday evening shortly before Christmas eve. Stone, a longtime political ally to the president, was convicted last year for making false statements to the FBI, obstruction of justice and witness tampering.
“We are very happy, I have an enormous debt of gratitude to God almighty for giving the president the strength and the courage to recognize that my prosecution was a completely politically motivated witch hunt,” Stone told the Fox News host.
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Hayes reviewed Trump’s pardons of “the politically connected or cronies,” reminding viewers that Manafort and Stone “didn’t cooperate fully with prosecutors.”
“Both of those individuals had pardons dangled in front of them, obviously tacitly so that they would not cooperate. They didn’t cooperate. They didn’t roll over on the president. The president refused to rule out pardons for them,” Hayes said. “They clearly knew they were angling for pardon so as not to incriminate the president, and now the president has pardoned them!”
“This is as fundamentally corrupt as a pardon gets.”
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UpdatedWed, Dec 23, 2020 at 5:42 pm PT
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Margaret Hunter leaves a federal courthouse, San Diego, CA, USA - 24 Aug 2020. (K C Alfred/Shutterstock)
SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CA One day after pardoning former San Diego-area Rep. Duncan Hunter, who admitted misusing campaign funds for personal use, President Donald Trump Wednesday also granted a full pardon to Hunter s estranged wife, Margaret, who pleaded guilty to the same crime and was sentenced to eight months home confinement and three years probation.
Margaret Hunter, who also served as her husband s campaign manager, pleaded guilty last year and was sentenced in August.
Trump offered much the same reasoning for pardoning Margaret Hunter as he did for pardoning the former congressman, saying the case should have been treated a civil case by the Federal Election Commission, not a federal prosecution.