Trump Has Commuted The Prison Sentence Of His “Loyal” Ally Roger Stone

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Stone was convicted of lying to Congress about his communications with WikiLeaks leading up to the 2016 election.

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President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the sentence for his longtime ally Roger Stone, a former Trump campaign adviser who had been sentenced to prison for lying to Congress during the Russia investigation, obstructing investigators, and tampering with witnesses.

Trump for months had been publicly noncommittal about whether he’d grant Stone clemency, but made clear that he still supported the longtime Republican political operative. His tweets grew less subtle over time — on June 27, he retweeted aattempt at getting a new trial in early April. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected Stone’s argument that a juror was biased because she’d criticized Trump on social media.

Although the Justice Department supported Stone’s original request to delay his surrender date to September, the government backed Jackson when Stone appealed to the DC Circuit. DOJ lawyers wrote in a July 9 filing that Jackson’s decision to only extend the date by two weeks was a “reasonable exercise” of her discretion.

Jackson’s ruling in April meant that Stone’s criminal case was officially over in the district court, and she lifted a gag order that had barred him not only from speaking publicly about his case, but also posting anything on social media.

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That is impeachable as Stone has info on Trump. Stone even said he has info to hurt Trump. So Remove Trump now!

His conviction was tied in with the Russian investigation which was found to be FAKE. It was based on Lies and a Fake dossier! Should never have been allowed.

NO RUSSIA COLLUSION

Hell yeah baby!! Love you RogerStone!

Of course he did. 🤦🏻‍♂️

3rd world banana republic

Roger Stone hasn’t even begun serving his sentence..! So what’s up here?

This is sickening. Trump is a mob boss.

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