A day after being pardoned, conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza said Friday that President Trump told him this week that he has been a “great voice for freedom” and had been “screwed,” according to a report.

The campaign-finance fraudster said he was surprised when the president called him at his office on Wednesday.

“The president said, ‘Dinesh, you’ve been a great voice for freedom. I got to tell you man-to-man you’ve been screwed,'” D’Souza told “Fox & Friends” on Friday.

He said Trump told him he wanted him to “be a bigger voice than ever defending the principles that I believe in.”

The president told D’Souza that he had been reviewing his case and “knew from the beginning that it was fishy.”

“He said upon reviewing it, he felt a great injustice had been done and that using his power, he was going to rectify it, sort of clear the slate, and he said he just wanted me to be out there, to be a bigger voice than ever, defending the principles that I believe in,” D’Souza said.

He said he was forced to plead guilty to avoid a second charge and a potential lengthy prison sentence.

“This kind of legal bludgeoning tactic is used not only against the guilty, but against the innocent,” the firebrand filmmaker said.

He expressed his relief that the pardon lifted the “cloud” of being a felon from over his head.

“I’m very grateful to President Trump for giving me my [full] rights back,” he said.

The right-wing provocateur was sentenced to five years’ probation, including eight months in a halfway house, after pleading guilty in 2014 to illegally using straw donors to contribute to Republican Wendy Long, who challenged US Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand.

He claimed his conviction, for which he also was fined $30,000, was a “vindictive political hit” by then-President Obama, who was angry over a movie he had made about him.

D’Souza also blamed former Attorney General Eric Holder and former New York federal prosecutor Preet Bharara.

“These guys decided to make an example of me,” he said, disputing Bharara’s contention Thursday that the prosecution was justified.

But at his plea hearing in 2014, D’Souza said he knew he was breaking the law.

“I knew that causing a campaign contribution to be made in the name of another was wrong and something the law forbids,” he said at the time. “I deeply regret my conduct.”

In his victory lap Thursday, D’Souza mocked Bharara.

“KARMA IS A BITCH DEPT: @PreetBharara wanted to destroy a fellow Indian American to advance his career. Then he got fired & I got pardoned,” D’Souza tweeted at the former US attorney for the Southern District of New York.

In addition to pardoning D’Souza, Trump said Thursday that he’s thinking about clemency for Martha Stewart, former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, among “lots” of other people.