Mueller breaks silence and condemns Trump for commuting sentenceSign up to our First Thing newsletterGlobal coronavirus liveblog: latest updates 2.56pm BST House speaker Nancy Pelosi says Democrats will take legislative action in the wake of Donald Trump’s decision to commute the jail sentence of his former campaign adviser, Roger Stone.Speaker Pelosi on CNN said House Democrats are going to pursue legislation to restrict the president’s clemency powers when it comes to cases related to the president’s conduct.“It’s a threat to our national security,” she said of the Stone commutation. 2.33pm BST The former special counsel Robert Mueller made a rare move on Saturday to publicly defend his two-year investigation into allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia in the 2016 election – and to castigate Donald Trump’s decision to commute Roger Stone’s prison sentence.Mueller wrote an opinion article for the Washington Post [paywall] published under the headline “Roger Stone remains a convicted felon, and rightly so”. Related: Robert Mueller breaks his silence and condemns Trump for commuting Roger Stone’s sentence Continue reading…
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