Trump commutes longtime friend Roger Stone’s prison sentence

By Jill Colvin and Eric Tucker, Associated Press
WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime political confidant Roger Stone on Friday, just days before he was set to report to prison. The move, short of a full pardon, is sure to alarm critics who have long railed against the president’s repeated interventions in the nation’s justice system.
Stone had been sentenced in February to three years and four months in prison for lying to Congress, witnes