Nikola founder Trevor Milton said on Thursday President Trump pardoned him for his 2022 conviction of misleading investors about the electric vehicle maker’s technology.

“I just got a call from the president of the United States on my phone and he signed my full and unconditional pardon of innocence, I am free,” Milton said in a video posted to X Thursday. “The prosecutors can no longer hurt me, they can’t destroy my family, they can’t rip everything away from me, they can’t ruin my life.”

Milton was convicted of securities and wire fraud charges in 2022 for overstating claims about Nikola’s production of zero-emission 18-wheel trucks. Investors lost hundreds of thousands of dollars as a result.

He was sentenced to four years in prison but had not yet been incarcerated while appealing the case.

A White House official confirmed Milton’s pardoning but did not provide further details. No official pardon notice was posted to the Justice Department or White House websites as of Friday morning.

Milton celebrated the pardon on Thursday, writing it “is not just about me,” but “every American who has been railroaded by the government.”

“Unfortunately, that’s a lot of people,” he said. “It is no wonder why trust and confidence in the Justice Department has eroded to nothing… I saw firsthand the tactics they use to guarantee convictions.”

Trump “cared enough to call me personally to tell me how much of an injustice this all was done by the same offices that harassed and prosecuted him,” Milton said, referring to the numerous criminal cases against the president.

The announcement comes just over a month after Nikola filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection after losing hundreds of millions amid the scandal surrounding Milton. The Arizona company also filed a motion seeking permission to pursue an auction and sale of the business, the Associated Press reported.

During Milton’s trial, prosecutors focused on a company video of a prototype truck appearing to be going down a desert highway, but said it was actually a video of a nonworking Nikola rolling down a hill, the newswire added.

Prosecutors alleged Milton falsely claimed to build a truck that was in reality, a General Motors product with a Nikola logo stamp.

The founder resigned in 2020 amid the fraud allegations and plummeting stock prices.

One of Milton’s attorneys is Bradley Bondi, the brother of U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, which prosecuted Milton, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump was also convicted by this office in a criminal hush money trial last year.

Trump has pardoned various other individuals in his first two months in office, including nearly all of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection defendants on his first day in office.

Earlier this week, Trump pardoned Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, who was convicted on federal fraud charges in 2018. Former Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, who was imprisoned for a campaign finance scheme, was pardoned by the president earlier this month.

On his second day in office, Trump signed a full pardon for Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the controversial online marketplace Silk Road.

The Associated Press contributed.