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Roger Stone sentencing explained: the controversy over Trump’s intervention

The president is accused of acting like a monarch after the justice department called his friend’s sentence too harsh

Who is Roger Stone?

A master of the dark arts of politics who cut his teeth on a Richard Nixon election campaign. He regularly gives Nixon’s trademark salute and has a tattoo of the disgraced 37th president on his back. A self-described “dirty trickster”, Stone, 67, is also a longtime friend of Donald Trump.

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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com


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