Author Dinesh D’Souza told Fox News’ Laura Ingraham Friday that there is some truth to the claim that President Trump’s pardoning of him is dangerous.
D’Souza, whose record was cleared Thursday, is one of several recent pardons weighed and issued by President Trump.
The author and filmmaker pleaded guilty in 2014 to violating campaign finance law by illegally funneling roughly $20,000 to a New York Senate candidate.
“The left has freaked out over my pardon more than maybe any other,” he claimed Friday.
“They were saying just how dangerous it is that I get this pardon,” D’Souza continued. “I think I know what they were getting at. It’s dangerous to them. It’s dangerous to their ideology.”
“I’ve been exposing their progressive ideology, so I’m dangerous in that way, and they’re right about that.”
“Mr. D’Souza was, in the president’s opinion, a victim of selective prosecution for violations of campaign finance laws,” the White House said in a statement accompanying Trump’s decision. “Mr. D’Souza accepted responsibility for his actions, and also completed community service by teaching English to citizens and immigrants seeking citizenship.”
“I’ve always felt he was very unfairly treated,” Trump himself told reporters Thursday afternoon on Air Force One. “What should have been a quick minor fine, like everybody else with the election stuff … what they did to him was horrible.”
