Trump Says He Won’t Pardon Stone Now But Complains About Trial
- President criticizes forewoman of Stone jury as ‘tainted’
- Stone ‘has a very good chance of exoneration,’ Trump says
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President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t immediately pardon his former associate Roger Stone but indicated he would intervene in the case if courts don’t overturn his conviction, after he was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in prison for lying to Congress and tampering with a witness.
“I’m not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed upon the president of the United States,” Trump said in Las Vegas at an event hosted by a charity, Hope for Prisoners, that helps former prisoners transition back into society. “I want the process to be played out. I personally think he was treated very unfairly.”