Roger Stone, President Donald Trump’s longtime ally and advisor, was booed and heckled with chants of “Lock him up! Lock him up!” in a post-arrest press conference Friday afternoon. Stone was arrested in a pre-dawn FBI raid after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s grand jury indicted him.
“I will not bear false witness” against the President, Stone told reporters, describing Trump as “one of my oldest friends,” who is “doing a great job of making America great again.”
“There is no circumstance under which I will bear false witness against the President, nor will I make up lies to ease the pressure on myself,” Stone said, noting he is a “fervent supporter” of President Trump.
At one point, as this image shows, Stone mimicked his hero, Richard Nixon:
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This article has been updated to read that Roger Stone, not Donald Trump, was arrested in a pre-dawn raid.