Roger Stone, a longtime friend and adviser of US President Donald Trump, reacts after Trump commuted his federal prison sentence, outside his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US July 10, 2020. “Roger Stone has already suffered greatly,” the White House said in a statement. Roger Stone is now a free man!” The veteran Republican political operative’s friendship with Trump dates back decades. He also commuted the prison sentence of Democratic former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who had been a contestant on Trump’s former reality TV show. Former Trump aide Sam Nunberg, a Republican political consultant and associate of Stone, said, “No one is not voting for President Trump because he commuted Roger.

Source: Standard Digital July 11, 2020 08:03 UTC