Matt Gaetz Caught on Hot Mic Assuring Roger Stone of Pardon by Donald Trump

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Facing possible jail time after being charged with the obstruction of a congressional investigation, veteran Republican operative Roger Stone was assured by MAGA-loving Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) that former President Donald Trump would offer him a pardon.

The new revelation comes from a hot microphone moment recorded by Danish filmmakers back in 2019, which was shared with The Washington Post ahead of their film A Storm Foretold, set to be released later this year.

The boss still has a very favorable view of you, the fervently pro-Trump congressman told Stone at a right-wing AMPFest gathering at one of the former presidents golf clubs, National Doral, before stating that Trump shared that information with him directly.

Within Trump’s orbit, those who work for the ex-president frequently refer to Trump as DJT and the boss when not speaking to him directly.

Ill go down hard, though. Ill fight it right to the bitter end, Stone added, to which the congressman replied: Yeah, but I don’t think youre going to go down at all at the end of the day.

I don’t think the big guy can let you go down for this, Gaetz added.

At another point in their conversation, Stone voiced little optimism over the jurors in the case, who he said were not his biggest fans.

I may have to appeal to the big man because I got its the District of Columbia. We surveyed 120 jurors, Stone told Gaetz, which was picked up by the hot mic. Ninety of them know who I am, and they hate my guts.

The congressman then fired back, concurring with Stone that he was fucked in light of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.

Neither Stone nor a Gaetz representative returned The Daily Beasts request for comment on Saturday morning.

Stone, who was found guilty of lying to Congress by a federal jury in November 2019. He was found guilty on all counts of lying to Congress about his efforts to learn about hacked Democratic emails during the 2016 US presidential election.

It wasn’t only Gaetz that Stone brought his frustrations to at the confab.

Im on trial in the District of Columbia. You can imagine the complexion of the jury pool, politically, Stone complained to Turning Point USA staffer Benny Johnson.

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