prosecution of Roger Stone.

“He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so." "Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon"

Mueller went on to note in the piece, "Because his sentence has been commuted, he will not go to prison. But his conviction stands."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Saturday slammed rump's decision to commute the prison sentence of his long-time friend and political adviser Roger Stone as "an act of staggering corruption."

She also said, that Congress will take action to "prevent this type of brazen wrongdoing" and that legislation is needed to "ensure that no President can pardon or commute the sentence of an individual who is engaged in a cover-up campaign to shield that President from criminal prosecution."

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff told NBC News on Saturday that by granting clemency to Stone, Trump is sending the message "if you lie for the President, if you cover up for the President, if you withhold incriminating evidence for the President, you get a pass from Donald Trump."

Sen. Mitt Romney, however, swiftly condemned the President's move as "unprecedented, historic corruption." an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president," the Utah Republican said on Twitter Saturday.

Romney was the sole Republican senator earlier this year to break with his party and vote to convict Trump on one of the articles of impeachment against the President, abuse of power.

Another Republican, Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, called Trump's decision to commute Stone's sentence a "mistake" and said that the president's power to grant clemency for federal crimes "should be used judiciously and very rarely."

"While I understand the frustration with the badly flawed Russia-collusion investigation, in my view, commuting Roger Stone's sentence is a mistake,"  "He was duly convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional investigation conducted by a Republican-led committee."



 

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