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Mitt Romney calls Trump's Roger Stone commutation 'unprecedented, historic corruption'
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, strongly criticized President Donald Trump's commutation for longtime friend and former campaign aide Roger Stone, calling it "unprecedented, historic corruption."
"Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president," Romney wrote on Twitter Saturday morning.
Trump granted Stone clemency days before he was to report to prison for a 40-month sentence.
Trump has pardoned allies before, but Stone is the first individual directly connected to Trump's campaign to receive presidential clemency. Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers criticized the move Friday.
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Nobody does corruption like me - Donald Trump.
