SKIPPING STONE
Roger Stone says Trump ‘saved’ his life after president commuted three-year sentence for lying to Congress & FBI
ROGER Stone has thanked President Trump for "saving his life" after the White House commuted his prison sentence for obstructing a congressional investigation.
commuted the 67-year-old's three-year sentence on Friday, with calling the political consultant a victim of partisan .
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" is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency," .
"There was never any collusion between the Trump campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia. Such collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to accept the result of the ."
McEnany wrote: "The collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations, conducted at great taxpayer expense, looking for evidence that did not exist."
She said the charges against Stone "were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice."
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Stone celebrated his freedom with supporters at his home in Fort Lauderdale on Friday.
He told the press: "The president has saved my life, and he's given me the opportunity to fight for vindication."
Stone said that going to prison during the pandemic would have been a death sentence.
"I'm 67 years old. I had very, very severe asthma as a child. If you look at the profile of those who are most at risk, I think I fit that," he said.
The political strategist said he was informed of the commutation by Trump on the phone.
"He [Trump] said we’ve known each other for 40 years," Stone said, adding: "He did not believe I committed a crime."
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Stone was sentenced to 40 months in February after in November on all seven counts of an indictment that accused him of lying to , tampering with a witness, and obstructing the House investigation .
He was the sixth Trump aide or adviser to be convicted on charges brought as part of into possible Russian interference.
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Earlier on Friday, a federal appeals court denied an emergency request from Stone to delay the start of his prison term by two months because of , reported.
“Stone proffers for the first time new facts regarding what he describes as positive tests for COVID-19 at the prison facility to which he has been assigned,” the appeals court in , wrote.
The court said Stone didn't prove that he was in danger of catching the virus, adding: “Stone never afforded the district court the opportunity to consider that new evidence and make any relevant fact findings in a motion for reconsideration.”
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Last week, US District Judge Amy Berman — two weeks later than his initial prison term start date of June 30, which was pushed back because of the pandemic.
, who he said is a "victim of a corrupt and illegal Witch Hunt, one which will go down as the greatest political crime in history."
During his trial, Stone was found to have lied to protect Trump when the then-Republican-led House of Representatives inquired about the 2016 campaign's efforts to reach WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks was the website that released damaging emails about Clinton, Trump's Democratic rival in the 2016 election.
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In April, Stone had .
Stone — the president — and therefore him, and so he petitioned for a new trial.
But Berman, who originally sentenced Stone on charges, rejected this.
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Stone recently : "So at this point, the judge has ordered me to surrender in two weeks and at 67 years old with some underlying health problems, including a history of asthma, I believe with the coronavirus it is essentially a death sentence."
He said that he was indicted as he "refused to bear false witness" against Trump.
He said: "I wasn't prosecuted because I was covering anything up for the president. I was prosecuted because I refused to bear false witness against the president."
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"I refused to dissemble, as the prosecutors wanted, about numerous phone calls between myself and candidate Trump in 2016."
Stone has been living in his Florida home since his arrest in 2019, and his legal action was the last criminal case brought in by Mueller's investigation.
The 67-year-old openly sought a pardon from Trump, who, when questioned about the possibility, told reporters: "You will find out.";
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