US President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of his friend Roger Stone, who was sentenced in February to 40 months in prison as part of the investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 US presidential campaign, the House said on Friday White.
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"Today President Donald J. Trump has ordered executive leniency to commute Roger Stone's unfair sentence , " the White House said in a statement, adding that this longtime friend of the president was now "a free man ” .