We begin on Friday, July 10th, President Trump commutes the 40-month prison sentence of longtime friend and confidante Roger Stone, who was convicted on seven felony charges brought forward by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, including witness tampering and making false statements to Congress. Trump’s clemency came after a federal appeals court panel denied Stone’s request to delay an order to report to federal prison.

Saturday, July 11th, Mueller pushes back against Trump’s commutation of Stone’s sentence, defending his investigation in the Washington Post, writing that Stone was a “central figure” due to his communications with Russian intelligence officials as well as Wikileaks, and that he “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.”