# tRump pardons Stone

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**Created:** [July 11, 2020, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pardons-stone/914991 "2020-07-11T01:47:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-pardons-stone/914991/51 "2020-07-11T23:42:25Z")

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[David Frum in the Atlantic](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/roger-stone/614068/):

> Stone is the central figure in the greatest scandals in U.S. history. Ames, Hanssen, the Rosenbergs, Alger Hiss—none of them worked with a foreign intelligence service to help a candidate for president of the United States. Stone did. And now he will receive a commutation of his sentence from the president he served.

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