Roger Stone: Trump commutes ex-adviser's sentence
US President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of his former adviser Roger Stone.
It said that Department of Justice prosecutors under special counsel Robert Mueller only charged Stone out of frustration after failing to prove the"fantasy" that the Trump campaign had colluded with the Kremlin. "Roger Stone has already suffered greatly," the statement said. "He was treated very unfairly, as were many others in this case. Roger Stone is now a free man!"
Mr Trump is not the first president to issue controversial pardons or commutations for friends and associates, of course. Most of his predecessors, however, waited until the last days of their presidency to take such actions, as they knew the political firestorms they would generate.
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