Nobody said he did not have the power. I said he should not have done it. Commuting the sentence of the guy that covered your ass is good personal relationship, but lousy politics in an election year.
How did the partisan persecution of Roger Stone, including the illegal collaboration between the Mueller (Weissman) KGB and the little Goebbels of CNN to stage a predawn military raid on the home a 65 year old mans home, including amphibious and air assaults, for white collar, political charges, "cover the ass" of the president?
This was a political hit job, resulting in a political prisoner.
He should have let him sit in jail until after he loses the election in November and then commuting or pardoning him when the political damage would not matter.
Up until the Obamugabe regime, the concept of political prisoners was abhorrent in America. Now of course we know the democrats are no different then the Khmer Rouge or Maoist China. Hell, we have a full blown cultural revolution as your Brown Shirts rampage on Kristalnacht.
I do not really care, that he did it now instead of then. Everybody gets to see what a sleaze he is releasing the cover guy in his political cover up, tampering with witnesses, lying to congress and in court. Jury of his peers had no problem convicting on 8 counts, mostly felonies. Justice for the crime called for jail time, just as the judge and jury did. Get this jerk out of office before he destroys the legal system completely. Easy to see there are two distinct standards with trump in office. How can he talk about law and order while letting his crooked friends off the hook?
It's interesting that you think putting people in prison because they hold opinions contrary to the Stalinist democrat party is a winner.
Now, you Marxist vermin are already violent, you are raping and pillaging across the nation already. When you lose in November, you will go into full blow civil war - not that you aren't already waging civil war against America - but the limited military assaults by you Communists in Minneapolis will be nation wide. You can't win, we all know that, but you'll create chaos. The goal of your masters is of course to create chaos so that China can invade and occupy.