When you're up against the horrific and deep pocketed resources of the federal government

and these really sadistic, arrogant, politically motivated prosecutors, and I had a biased

judge, I had a stacked jury, I had a corrupt jury for a woman.

As my friend Tucker Carlson said, my trial was over before it started.

That was Roger Stone, talking to Fox News host Sean Hannity Monday night.

In his first interview since President Trump commuted his sentence just days before he was

slated to go to federal prison for lying to Congress and intimidating a witness.

Stone echoed the talking points that had become a mantra for the MAGA crowd, that everything

about Robert Mueller's nearly two-year-long investigation was a politically motivated hoax

and a witch hunt all designed to undermine the Trump presidency.

But Stone's protest should also be seen as another chapter in an extraordinary career stretching

nearly half a century marked by bluster, dirty tricks, and performance art, all of which

made him an invaluable political mentor to his longtime friend Donald Trump.

We'll talk to veteran political reporter Howard Feynman, who knows Stone as well as anybody.

And we'll talk to our Yahoo News colleague, Alex Nazarian, about the latest extremely depressing

coronavirus news on this episode of Skull Duggery.

Because people have got to know whether or not they're President of the crop, well I'm

not a crop.

I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostage.

My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence

tell me it is not.

I did not have sexual relations with that woman.

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