President Donald Trump promises his longtime political adviser Roger Stone will not serve time in prison
The four attorneys who shepherded Stone’s prosecution proceeded either to resign or notify the court that they were stepping off the case.urging Barr to resign over his actions in the federal cases of Stone and Michael Flynn, Trump’s former national security adviser who was also ensnared by Mueller’s probe.
Although Barr’s Justice Department has moved aggressively to quash the case against Flynn, it is unclear how the attorney general will respond to the president’s interference Thursday.
Although Trump has so far stayed coy on the subject of a potential pardon for Stone or commutation of his sentence, the president in February that the self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” of GOP politics would not serve his full term behind bars, saying his former aide “has a very good chance of exoneration.”in April that he is “praying for a pardon,” and has been told by the Bureau of Prisons to report to begin serving his 40-month sentence by June 30. His appeal remains pending, and he has not yet made any attempt to have his sentence postponed until after his appeal is resolved.
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