Less than a week after his controversial pardon, Roger Stone said he was able to thank President Donald Trump personally over the weekend.
Stone posted about his meeting with Trump on Parler, a social media site that has been drawing conservative commentators after Twitter and Facebook restricted posts that included false or misleading information about the 2020 election.
“I also told the president exactly how he can appoint a special attorney with full subpoena power to ensure that those who are trying to steal the 2020 election through electoral fraud are charged and convicted and to ensure that Donald Trump remains as our president, “wrote Stone.
Trump forgave Stone on December 23 along with 19 other individuals, including his son-in-law’s father. So far, the president has granted clemency to five people who were convicted during the investigation by former special adviser Robert Mueller about Russian interference in the 2016 elections.
Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison after being convicted on seven counts of tampering with witnesses, lying to Congress and obstructing the House of Representatives inquiry into the possible coordination of the Trump campaign with Russia. Before the pardon, the president commuted Stone’s sentence in July.
Mueller’s investigation found that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election campaign in an effort to benefit Trump, but the investigation did not conclude that Trump or his campaign conspired with foreign power.
Stone celebrated forgiveness for the first time during an appearance on Fox News, telling host Tucker Carlson that Trump was “the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln”.
“I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Almighty God for giving the President the strength and courage to acknowledge that my accusation was a fully politically motivated witch hunt and that my trial was a Soviet-style show trial in which the judge denied us any line of defense, “added Stone.
Since then, Stone has also threatened to sue the Department of Justice, Mueller, former FBI director James Comey and other key figures. In a post to Parler, Stone said he would file a $ 25 million lawsuit “against the DOJ and each of these individuals personally”.
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Trump has yet to grant President-elect Joe Biden the race, even after the Electoral College confirmed the Democrats’ victory earlier this month. Instead, the president continued to make unfounded accusations of widespread electoral fraud and filed dozens of lawsuits questioning the results in key conflict states. Almost all of them have failed.
Trump also publicly summoned a special lawyer to investigate the alleged fraud. But former attorney general Bill Barr, who stepped down on December 23, said he did not see the need for one.
Newsweek contacted Stone and the White House to comment on the meeting between Trump and Stone, but did not receive a response before publication.