President Trump has commuted the prison sentence of Roger Stone, who briefly worked on his campaign and became one of the targets of the ‘Russiagate’ probe of special counsel Robert Mueller.
After the probe could not find any evidence for the allegation that Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 election, Mueller started to go after various associated of Trump for accusations that were mostly unrelated to the probe.
Roger Stone had been sentenced to over three years in prison by an anti-Trump judge in a trial that was largely seen as political. The judge also issued a gag-order against Stone, which meant that he was not allowed to defend himself against false accusations by carrots media outlets. Facebook also recently banned Stone, this further curtailing his ability to correct the record.
A commutation is not a pardon, though, which means that the conviction still stands and Stone can continue to appeal it.