Corey Lewandowski: The way Roger Stone was treated by this government should scare every American
Trump 2020 senior adviser Corey Lewandowski reacts to Trump commuting Roger Stone’s prison sentence on ‘Fox and Friends Weekend.’
The way the U.S. government treated political advisor Roger Stone should scare every American, Trump 2020 senior adviser Corey Lewandowski warned Saturday.
In an interview on "Fox & Friends Weekend," Lewandowski told hosts Pete Hegseth and Griff Jenkins that Stone was "treated very unfairly" by Special Counsel Robert Mueller's prosecutors during the Russia investigation.
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"They used more men to go and get Roger Stone than I think they used on the Usama bin Laden raid," he said. " It just so happened that one of the networks was there to watch the whole thing."
Roger Stone, a longtime friend and adviser of U.S. President Donald Trump, reacts after Trump commuted his federal prison sentence outside his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S. July 10, 2020. (Reuters)
On Friday, President Trump announced that he had signed an Executive Grant of Clemency commuting Stone's "unjust sentence," just days before he was set to report to prison.
Stone was sentenced in February on seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering, and making false statements to Congress. Stone, however, has appealed his conviction and continues to deny any wrongdoing.
"Look, Roger Stone was clearly targeted by an unfair prosecution," Lewandowski said. "Look, I'm not the biggest fan of Roger Stone. I think you guys know that. But, the way he was treated by this government should scare the hell out of every American."
"You know, they could do it to anybody. What they’ve done to Mike Flynn and Roger Stone: this president saw an injustice. He commuted the sentence. Which is the right thing to do to make sure Roger has a fair trial and has a fair hearing – it’s very important in our system," he continued.
Lewandowski noted that because "justice is blind," actors on both sides of the aisle should be held to account.
"Comey, Brennan, Clapper, McCabe: all the names we know have never been brought to justice. It's time. Justice is blind, but those people need to be held accountable," he said.
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"If Obama did it, [it] must be fine. When Trump does it, it's wrong. That's the Trump Derangement Syndrome that the media and the left has had since he came down that big, beautiful, golden escalator," Lewandowski concluded.
Fox News' Brooke Singman, John Roberts, David Spunt, and Bill Mears contributed to this report.
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