Roger Stone said he’ll do anything to help President Trump win reelection short of violating the law.
In an interview with Axios published Monday, Stone, who had his full prison sentence commuted by the president last week, also said he intends to write a book about the Russian collusion controversy.
“I will do anything necessary to elect my candidate, short of breaking the law,” the GOP operative said. “First, I’m going to write a book about this entire ordeal to, once and for all, put to bed the myth of Russian collusion.”
The White House announced Friday evening the commutation of the three-year prison sentence Trump’s longtime friend and adviser faced as a result of being convicted of charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Before Trump signed the executive grant of clemency, Stone, 67, had been ordered to surrender to prison on Tuesday. His emergency appeal to extend his July 14 surrender date because of the coronavirus was rejected by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit earlier in the evening on Friday. The White House statement said Stone “would be put at serious medical risk” if sent to prison and claimed he was a “victim of the Russia Hoax.”
On Monday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said she did not have details as to whether the president’s commutation of Stone’s sentence applied to his supervised release. She said she would follow up on the matter.
Stone was arrested in January 2019 and was later found guilty on five separate counts of lying to the House Intelligence Committee about his alleged outreach to WikiLeaks, one count that he “corruptly obstructed” the congressional investigation, and another for attempting to intimidate a possible congressional witness, radio host Randy Credico.
He was sentenced to 40 months for obstruction of justice and 12 months for the other five counts to be served concurrently. He also received a $20,000 fine.
