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Tue Feb 18, 2020, 06:27 PM Feb 2020

Trump's Remarks Before Air Force One Departure, Joint Base Andrews, MD; February 18, 2020

Sorry, no crying steelworkers this time.

Remarks

Remarks by President Trump Before Air Force One Departure | Joint Base Andrews, MD

Issued on: February 18, 2020

Joint Base Andrews, Maryland

1:41 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. It’s a little windy out here, so I’ll button up my coat. You have a couple of more people who want to join you.

Q So we’re hearing you’re going to commute the sentence of Blagojevich?

THE PRESIDENT: Yes, we have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich. He served eight years in jail. That’s a long time. And I watched his wife on television. I don’t know him very well. I’ve met him a couple of times. He was on, for a short while, on “The Apprentice,” years ago. Seemed like a very nice person. Don’t know him.

But he served eight years in jail. He has a long time to go. Many people disagree with the sentence. He’s a Democrat; he’s not a Republican. It was a prosecution by the same people — Comey, Fitzpatrick — the same group.

Very far from his children. They’re growing older. They’re going to high school now, and they rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform. I saw that and I did commute his sentence. So he’ll be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail. That was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence, in my opinion —

{snip}

Q You were asked specifically about Roger Stone, but are you ruling out pardons for Stone, for your former campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, and for Michael Flynn, for example?

THE PRESIDENT: I’m not even thinking about that. There’s a process that people are going through. These are unrelated situations where people have done a great job with very, very strong recommendations. But we haven’t thought about that yet. Right now there’s a process.

I think Roger Stone has been treated unfairly. I think General Flynn has been treated very unfairly. I think a lot of people have been treated very unfairly. I think the Mueller scam is just exactly what it’s — what a lot of people are calling, because it was started illegally. It was started by abuse. It was phony. It was a fake dossier. And they went in, and they went into the FISA courts and they forged papers, and they did a lot of bad things. So the whole Mueller thing, to me, is a scam.

Q Do you think Roger Stone deserves any prison time?

THE PRESIDENT: You’re going to see what happens. Let’s see what happens.

{snip}

Q One other thing: Is there a search underway for “Anonymous”? Remember “Anonymous” is —

THE PRESIDENT: Yeah, there is. It’s not so much a search.

Q Who do you think it is?

THE PRESIDENT: I — I know who it is. Yeah.

Q Who is it?

THE PRESIDENT: I can’t tell you that.

Q Why not?

Q Why not?

THE PRESIDENT: But I know who it is.

Q Why not?

THE PRESIDENT: But we won’t — we won’t get into it. People know it’s — people know it’s a fraud. I know who it is and I know who some of the leakers are. But some of the leakers don’t exist. It’s made up by the press. So, you know, they say, “Nine people have said” or “two people have said,” and those people don’t exist.

But, no, I know all about “Anonymous.” I know a lot about the leakers too.

Q Do you believe it’s a person who still works at the White House?

THE PRESIDENT: We know a lot. In fact, when I want to get something out to the press, I tell certain people. And it’s amazing, it gets out there. But, so far, I’m leaving it that way.

I’ll see you later. Thank you. See you on the plane.

END

1:55 P.M. EST
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