Pres. Trump would not say if he plans to pardon his longtime friend and onetime campaign adviser, Roger Stone, who was found guilty last month of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction.
Trump questioned why a slew of other rivals of his -- from his 2016 Democratic presidential opponent Hillary Clinton to"Mueller himself" -- had not also been convicted of lying.
None of the individuals Trump mentioned then have been charged with lying to federal officials, or to Congress, as Stone was. One of them, the FBI’s former deputy director Andrew McCabe, has been accused of"lacking candor" in interviews under oath with federal investigators, according to a Department of JusticePresident Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after making a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Fla., Dec.
President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters after making a video call to the troops stationed worldwide at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Fla., Dec. 24, 2019.On Tuesday, Trump tried to downplay Stone’s role in his 2016 campaign. A longtime political operative, Stone has been a friend of Trump's since the 1970s and has taken credit for persuading Trump to get into politics."You know, Roger Stone was not involved in my campaign in any way other than the very, very beginning, before I think I, long before I announced, a little bit," the president told reporters."I've known Roger over the years. He's a nice guy, a lot of people like him, and he got very ... he got hit very hard.
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