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Stone gets excoriated by Judge and gets sentenced to 40 months.
Sorry for getting in before those guided only by the "rule of law" who will no doubt be lining up to cheer that justice has been done.
Can you imagine the uproar here if the "rule of law" was undermined in that manner. That kind of stuff is like catnip to the swamp drainers and I expect them to be all over it if something that appalling happens.
Obviously with due regard to the 40 month rule I think it's called.
Trump to the rescue I guess.
Roger Stone was found guilty on seven criminal charges of obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements to Congress (then held by Republicans), and witness tampering.
The sentencing judge said
“The truth still exists, the truth still matters, Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't, his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy. And if it goes unpunished, it will not be a victory for one party or another.”
Still it's US Justice that is rotten in locking up the criminals in Trump's orbit whilst Clinton, McCabe, Comey, Page, Awan, Strozk, Lynch, Brennan and all the people called criminals without criminal charge walk the streets freely.
How's that one going?
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...-motion-191876
This is dreadful news. Completely ruined my day. How can an innocent man like Roger Stone be denied a retrial because all of the evidence showed that he was guilty and one of the jurors apparently doesn't like Trump. I shall be writing to my congressman forthwith!
Mr Stone may have to serve his time as well :
'If a president has been impeached, he or she loses the power to pardon anyone for criminal offenses connected to the articles of impeachment — and that even after the Senate’s failure to convict the president, he or she does not regain this power.'