Roger Stone: A Trump Gag Order Equals ‘Election Interference’

On the eve of Donald Trump’s arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court, the former president’s longtime ally Roger Stone complained that if the judge in the case were to impose a gag order on the habitually talkative defendant, it would not only amount to “canceling” Trump—but could be classified as “election interference.”

Stone appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show, where the Fox News host began by offering an incredibly skewed characterization of a gag order.

“It’s almost hard to believe that the Republican Party’s leading presidential candidate… could be told by a judge that he will go to jail if he dares to defend himself in his own criminal case,” Carlson said. “Could that actually happen? Well, it happened to Roger Stone and nobody seemed to care. We did. Nobody else did.”

Read more at The Daily Beast.