Opinion: A presidential pardon may not save Roger Stone

Special counsel Robert Mueller's indictment of Roger Stone sparked an avalanche of viewer and reader comments this week. To some, the Stone indictment proves that the Trump campaign coordinated illegally with Wikileaks and Russian hackers to cheat in the 2016 election. To others, the indictment establishes merely that an eccentric hanger-on committed a "process" crime (lying to Congress) about his unsuccessful efforts to puff himself up within the campaign by making predictions about the Wikileaks publication of hacked emails.


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