Tucker Carlson Calls on Trump to Pardon Roger Stone

Hours after the four federal prosecutors handling the Roger Stone case withdrew in response to the Department of Justice overruling their recommendation on Stone’s prison sentence, Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that the longtime Trump confidant “deserved a pardon.”

Noting that Stone is looking at nine years in prison, Carlson then claimed that the average rapist only serves four years in jail while armed robbers spend approximately three years behind bars.

“The average thug who violently assaults somebody—less than a year and a half,” the Fox star added. “But the left, CNN as well, demand that Roger Stone die in prison. This man needs a pardon.”

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