Legal Experts Explode Over Donald Trump's Clemency For Roger Stone
Legal experts joined the cascade of criticism and anger being directed at Donald Trump on Friday after the president commuted the prison sentence of Roger Stone, his longtime adviser.
CNN’s chief legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin described Trump’s granting of clemency to Stone ― who was soon set to begin a 40-month sentence for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the House investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election ― as “the most corrupt and cronyistic act in perhaps all of recent history.”
Disgraced former President “Richard Nixon at the height of Watergate never pardoned or commuted the sentences of any of the people involved in Watergate,” Toobin told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “He thought he could never get away with it.”
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"This is the most corrupt and cronyistic act, in perhaps all of recent history."
CNN legal analyst @JeffreyToobin reacts to President Trump commuting Roger Stone's prison sentencehttps://t.co/MdIbNVwfGqpic.twitter.com/2d6SzetfiE— Anderson Cooper 360° (@AC360) July 11, 2020
“This is what corruption looks like,” former federal and state prosecutor Elie Honig told CNN’s Don Lemon. “This is just a raw abuse of power.”
Check out Honig’s comments here:
"This is what corruption looks like," says Elie Honig, a former DOJ prosecutor about President Trump commuting the 40-month prison sentence of his friend Roger Stone. "It's hard to think of a more perfect example of self-dealing than that." https://t.co/S5zvEy5hEPpic.twitter.com/5XEsC3gcdL
— CNN (@CNN) July 11, 2020
Attorney George Conway, who is married to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, suggested there had never been “a more openly, brazenly corrupt act” committed by a president of the United States:
I’m not sure there ever has been a more openly, brazenly corrupt act committed by a president of the United States.
— George Conway (@gtconway3d) July 11, 2020
