Former NYPD Commissioner ‘Emotional and Stunned’ After Trump Pardoning

Bernard Kerik at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on March 7, 2014. ("Bernard Kerik" by Gage Skidmore/Flickr[CC BY-SA-2.0 (ept.ms/2utDIe9)]

Former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernard Kerik revealed on Feb. 18 how he first learned President Trump was issuing him with a pardon for felony convictions that put him behind bars for three years.

Kerik, who served as the NYPD’s top cop under Mayor Rudy Giuliani during his tenure from 2000 to 2001, told ABC News that he was in Florida on Tuesday when he received an unexpected call around 12 p.m., telling him to “standby for the president.”