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Romney claims corruption in commutation of Roger Stone’s sentence
Jul 11, 2020, 10:52 AM | Updated: 11:10 am
(PHOTO Credit: Laura Seitz, Deseret News)
SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, tweeted his concerns about President Donald Trump’s commutation of the sentence of Roger Stone.
Stone was a former campaign adviser to the president and was due on Tuesday to begin a sentence of three years and four months in prison.
In Romney’s tweet, he referred to the move as “Unprecedented, historic corruption.”
Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) July 11, 2020
President Trump says, “Roger Stone was targeted by an illegal Witch Hunt that never should have taken place.”
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