Dinesh D’Souza said Friday that President Trump wanted the conservative author and filmmaker back at work when he pardoned him for crime of circumventing campaign finance law in 2012.
“He said he just wanted me to be out there to be a bigger voice than ever defending the principles that I believe in,” D’Souza said on Fox News.
.@DineshDSouza on speaking with @POTUS: “He said he just wanted me to be out there to be a bigger voice than ever defending the principles that I believe in.” @foxandfriends https://t.co/mHNMj01oRw pic.twitter.com/XcqRA8fDgi
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 1, 2018
D’Souza was convicted of using straw donors to exceed campaign contributions to a U.S. Senate candidate in New York. But on Fox, D’Souza said his conviction was an act of retribution by former President Barack Obama and his team, after D’Souza released the anti-Obama movie “2016: Obama’s America’
“No American in our country’s history has even been indicted, let along prosecuted, let alone locked up, for doing what I did,” he said, adding that Obama wanted to “make an example out of me.”
“This was a vindictive, political hit, that was kind of aimed at putting me out of business,” he said.
.@DineshDSouza: “I’m very grateful to President Trump for giving me those rights back.” @foxandfriends https://t.co/mHNMj01oRw pic.twitter.com/Q28mDEQeQi
— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 1, 2018
