Roger Stone, the former Trump adviser whose claimed contact with WikiLeaks put him in the crosshairs of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, says President Trump should pardon WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange to defend press freedom.

“Journalists everywhere should be disturbed if Assange is kidnapped and put on trial. It is a blow to independent journalism and a free press,” Stone told the Washington Examiner, as Assange’s future becomes increasingly uncertain.