ADIt seems possible from Barr’s comments that it might be the latter. First, Barr’s comments referred only to a pardon, not necessarily a commutation, which he could conceivably argue is different. “'I will never testify against Trump,' ” Trump quoted Stone as saying in December 2018. Either way, though, Barr’s comments in the past week undermine Trump’s stated reason for the commutation. — and it seems they were lodged either because Barr thought Stone was truly guilty or because he worried about what came next.

Source: Washington Post July 13, 2020 19:38 UTC