President Trump doesn't rule out pardoning Republican operative Roger Stone, saying Tuesday that 'it's very tough' what happened to his former confidant and criticizing federal prosecutors and investigators.
“And now they're finding out it was all a big hoax. They're finding out it was a horrible thing," he said."And what they did to so many others is very unfair, and now we found out there are a bunch of dirty cops," Trump said, referring to a
mishandled parts of its application to monitor a Trump campaign aide as it was probing possible Russian interference in the 2016 election. The report, however, also found that the overall investigation was justified.Stone served early on as an adviser to Trump's 2016 campaign and has called the case against him politically motivated.—including witness tampering and making false statements — that were related to his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails in 2016.
Prosecutors portrayed Stone, 67, as a serial liar who tried to bully witnesses into not cooperating with authorities. They charged Stone with making false statements, obstruction and witness tampering in a case that was an offshoot of Mueller's Russia investigation. Stone was the sixth Trump aide or adviser to be convicted of the charges brought as part of Mueller's probe.
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