Justice doc shows Trump's executive grant of clemency applies to all Stone's incarceration, fines
During an interview with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity on Monday Stone credited the president with saving his life
The Justice Department on Monday released President Trump's executive grant of clemency commuting Trump political adviser Roger Stone's 40-prison sentence, after a judge questioned whether it also applied to post-release supervision.
Trump commuted the sentence and the two-year period of supervised release and let Stone off the hook for any outstanding part of a $20,000 fine, according to the clemency order.
Stone was found guilty on seven federal charges – including obstruction, false statements and witness tampering – in connection to the federal government's probe into whether the 2016 Trump campaign colluded with Russia to influence the outcome of the presidential race.
Trump on Friday moved to commute Stone's sentence, before he was set to report to prison Tuesday in Georgia.
During an interview Monday with Fox News Channel's Sean Hannity, Stone credited the president with saving his life.
"Above all though, I guess I'd have to say the most important thing here is the courageousness of the president's act," Stone said. "I know there were many, many, many people who told him, in an election year, 'Don't do this, let Roger Stone wait maybe for a pardon after the election.' Sean, I don't think I would've lived that long – not with my asthmatic condition, not with now 60 COVID-19 cases in that prison," he said.
"I was facing what I really believed was a near-death sentence," the 67-year-old Stone also said during the interview.