Roger Stone will be interviewed by Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Friday night after a 16-month gag order on the longtime Republican operative was lifted this week, Stone announced in an Instagram post.

The appearance on Carlson's prime-time program comes after a federal judge rejected Stone's motion for a new trial on Thursday. Stone, 67, had been sentenced to more than three years in prison in February for lying to Congress and witness tampering.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who was appointed by then-President Obama, ruled against the argument by Stone's legal team that one juror was biased against their client and therefore had tainted the verdict.

"The assumption underlying the motion - that one can infer from the juror's opinions about the President that she could not fairly consider the evidence against the defendant - is not supported by any facts or data and it is contrary to controlling legal precedent," Jackson wrote in an 81-page opinion. "The motion is a tower of indignation, but at the end of the day, there is little of substance holding it up."

Carlson has called for President Trump to pardon Stone, arguing the sentencing was too harsh.

"Stone and his wife, who is 71 years old and deaf, have lost their home because of this," Carlson said in February on "Tucker Carlson Tonight."

"They have no insurance. They're utterly broke. The whole thing is shocking and it's disgusting. It's a farce that discredits the entire American justice system," the host continued.

"The president must pardon Roger Stone or commute his sentence before he goes to jail," Carlson later added.

Stone has advised several GOP campaigns over the decades, including those for Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and Trump.