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malthaussen
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July 11, 2020
Somebody in the Trump Administration has a brain.
Commuting Mr Stone's sentence was clever. If he'd been pardoned, he could not invoke the Fifth in a related court case, because he couldn't be incriminating himself. Commutation does not carry that immunity, so he could refuse to answer future questions.
-- Mal
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