US President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and adviser Roger Stone.
US President Donald Trump has called Roger Stone to inform his longtime political confidant that he would commute his sentence for crimes related to the Russia investigation, Stone told The Associated Press, just days before he was set to report to prison.
Stone had been sentenced in February to three years and four months in prison for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to win the 2016 election.A commutation would not erase Stone's felony convictions in the same way a pardon would, but it would protect him from serving prison time as a result.
Mr Trump had repeatedly publicly inserted himself into Stone's case, including just before Stone's sentencing, when he suggested in a tweet that Stone was being subjected to a different standard than several prominent Democrats. He railed that the conviction"should be thrown out" and called the Justice Department's initial sentencing recommendation"horrible and very unfair.
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