Roger Stone Encouraged Trump to Pardon Marcus Garvey
Roger Stone has been pushing Trump to clear Marcus Garvey’s name for more than a year.
SAM STEIN
06.08.18 1:29 PM ET
One of Donald Trump’s longest and closest associates has encouraged the president to grant a posthumous pardon to Marcus Garvey, the pan-African advocate and black nationalist who became a forebearer of the modern civil rights movement.
The associate, Roger Stone, told The Daily Beast earlier this week that he wrote Trump “a year ago” urging him to consider a Garvey pardon. Trump has not acted on the request and it’s unclear if he plans to. Stone did not return additional requests for comment, but in a Reddit forum in 2017 he explained that he had wanted the president to make the announcement during Black History Month, adding, “Yes I am serious.”
The president has recently discovered an appetite for issuing pardons of iconic figures, including those deceased, enhancing the prospect that a Garvey pardon may happen. That said, Trump does not appear to have ever mentioned the Garvey case. Nor is it clear if Stone has done any advocacy beyond the lone letter and the Reddit forum.
Reached by phone, Garvey’s son, Dr. Julius Garvey, said he was unaware of who Stone was, let alone the fact that the longtime Republican operative had been pushing for a posthumous pardon of his father. The younger Garvey had spearheaded the “Justice4Garvey” campaign during the Barack Obama presidency in hopes of securing an exoneration. But no pardon was granted and, Garvey said, he largely dropped his advocacy efforts since Obama left office.
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