The Washington Post / The Washington Post via Getty Im President Donald Trump’s tough-on-crime rhetoric appears to come with a caveat for people in his political orbit. Trump quietly commuted the sentence of James Womack, son of longtime Arkansas Republican Rep. Steve Womack, granting clemency to a man who pleaded guilty in 2023 to distributing more than five grams of methamphetamine this week. The conviction carried an eight-year federal prison sentence. Rep. Womack, a long-time Trump ally who was endorsed by the president during his most recent reelection campaign, publicly thanked Trump the following day. In a statement , the congressman praised the president’s “gracious and thoughtful action,” saying it allowed his son to reunite with family “during a profoundly difficult time.” Read more at The Daily Beast.