Trump’s commutation for Roger Stone is unpardonable

Published July 13, 2020 9:07pm ET



President Trump, like Presidents Barack Obama and especially Bill Clinton before him, has now abused his commutation power for rank political ends in a way that undermines the cause of justice.

The fact that Obama and Clinton “got away with it” does not make Trump’s commutation of the sentence of his longtime political dirty trickster, Roger Stone, less of an affront to the system.

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