Roger Stone denies he withheld info about Trump before clemency

Roger Stone, the political operative convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into President Donald Trump’s campaign, denied on Monday night that he withheld information about the president before receiving clemency keeping him out of prison.

In his first TV interview since Trump commuted his sentence Friday night, Stone said he had been misinterpreted when he said he had refused “to play Judas” against the president. Instead, he said, investigators working for special counsel Robert Mueller wanted him to “bear false witness” against Trump.

“I would not lie against my friend of 40 years so they could use it for impeachment,” Stone said on Sean Hannity’s show on Fox News. “They wanted me to be the ham in their ham sandwich because they knew the Mueller report, particularly on Russia, was a dud. It was a goose egg. They had nothing.”