How Trump rewards loyalty

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Toluse Olorunnipa reports on the fallout of Roger Stone’s commutation. Marissa Lang discusses the concerns of organizations that help victims of domestic violence. And Robert McCartney explains how Washington’s NFL team is dropping its name.

Trump commuted his confidant’s sentence. Roger Stone was convicted of lying to Congress and witness tampering.

Domestic violence is rising amid coronavirus lockdowns.

Corporate money, Black Lives Matter protests and elites’ opinions are driving the Washington Redskins name change — not Native Americans.

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0:21.5	Hi, good afternoon. This is Tulu, or Reneco with the Washington Post.
0:24.9	Hi, this is Amy Britton calling me the post.
0:27.1	This is Peter J.
0:28.8	This is Post Reports. I'm Martin Powers.
0:34.1	It's Monday, July 13th.
0:38.8	Today, while the president kept Roger Stone out of prison, domestic abuse and lockdown,
0:45.1	and a long-awaited name change.
0:51.6	Friday night was another one of those crazy nights in the Trump administration where the
0:56.0	expected happens, but it's unexpected and still shocking.
1:02.1	Roger Stone was treated horribly.
1:04.8	Roger Stone was treated very unfairly.
1:08.1	President Trump commuted the sentence of his longtime ally Roger Stone,
1:12.8	who had been convicted of several counts of essentially lying to Congress to protect the president.
1:18.4	What I did, I will tell you this, people are extremely happy because in this country,
1:24.5	this was the last minute intervention by the president that essentially saved Roger Stone
1:28.7	from going to prison. He had filed all kinds of different motions and tried to delay this,
1:33.2	but President Trump did that really at the 11th hour before Roger Stone was set to pack his bags
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