{"id":3073,"date":"2020-07-15T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T16:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2020-07-15T16:07:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T16:07:20","slug":"trump-just-commuted-roger-stones-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"Trump just commuted Roger Stone\u2019s sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;Stone, a longtime Republican operative, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/11\/15\/20964909\/roger-stone-trial-verdict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">convicted in November 2019<\/a>&nbsp;for obstructing a congressional investigation, lying to Congress, and witness tampering in a trial that stemmed from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2019\/11\/4\/20938848\/roger-stone-trial-bannon-trump-impeachment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election<\/a>. On February 20, Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s commutation landed just days before Stone was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/legal-issues\/roger-stone-ordered-to-report-to-prison-july-14-as-judge-denies-request-for-two-month-delay\/2020\/06\/26\/c76fc984-b7c7-11ea-9b0f-c797548c1154_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expected to report to prison on July 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commutation stops short of a full pardon. The conviction will remain on Stone\u2019s record \u2014 for now, at least. But the Trump ally won\u2019t have to serve his approximately three-year prison term.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/10\/21134609\/roger-stone-commutation-trump\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/10\/21134609\/roger-stone-commutation-trump<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stone, a longtime Republican operative, was convicted in November 2019 for obstructing a congressional investigation, lying to Congress, and witness tampering in a trial that stemmed from special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. On February 20, Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s commutation landed just days before Stone was expected to report to prison on July 14.<\/p>\n<p>The commutation stops short of a full pardon. The conviction will remain on Stone\u2019s record \u2014 for now, at least. But the Trump ally won\u2019t have to serve his approximately three-year prison term.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[932,221,933,934,170],"class_list":["post-3073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-commutation","tag-donald-trump","tag-pardon","tag-roger-stone","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3074,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3073\/revisions\/3074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}