Trump's clemency for Roger Stone is an admission of the president's guilt in Russia probe
Predictably, President Donald Trump’s long-hinted pardon of his old friend, Roger Stone, came about 8 p.m. Friday. While the Trump administration is not the first to bury bad news in that part of the cycle, it has done so with great regularity. When it came, it wasn’t actually a pardon, it was a commutation. That means Stone will spend no time in jail, but his conviction still stands and he can continue his crusade to have it reversed on appeal without the admission of guilt that is implicit in a pardon. In other words, it’s a win for Stone and for Trump as well, but a terrible loss for the rule of law and American justice.
Trump, never one to let an open sore scab over, issued an official statement later Friday night, justifying the commutation as the closing act of what he still, despite evidence, deems the “Russia Hoax” — in other words, Russia’s well-documented efforts to interfere in our 2016 election on Trump’s behalf.
Having been resoundingly reminded by the Supreme Court just a day earlier that he was not above the law, it was as though he could not resist the compulsion to push back and show that he was, or at least that he could still act like he was.
Trump rewarded the man who lied to protect him from criminal investigation and congressional oversight, a shameless abuse of the presidential pardon power. Permitting Stone to avoid prison for seven felony convictions involving Trump’s campaign was the ultimate act of lawlessness.
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This can't be the intention of our Constitution.
The guy has clearly protected the criminal behavior of the President by lying and threatening. I just can't get my mind around this thing. Is anyone else freaking over this???
