In politics, when a decision is announced on Friday at 8:00 p.m., it is because it is generally controversial. President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of his friend Roger Stone, who was sentenced in February to 40 months in prison as part of the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 US presidential campaign, said Friday the White House.
"Today President Donald J. Trump has ordered executive leniency to commute Roger Stone's unfair sentence," the White House said in a statement, adding that this longtime friend of the president, a "victim Russian hoax ", was now" a free man ".
Roger Stone's prison sentence, which was convicted in November of congressional lies and witness subordination, was scheduled to start next week. As soon as Stone was convicted, Donald Trump had explained that he wanted to pardon his 67-year-old former collaborator, a sulphurous political adviser known for his colorful style and his Richard Nixon tattoo on the back.
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