Showing posts with label Roger Stone's prison sentence commuted by Trump. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roger Stone's prison sentence commuted by Trump. Show all posts

Saturday, July 11, 2020

Robert Mueller Speaks Out About His Investigations And Stone Prosecution


Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller writes an op/ ed in the Washington Post, defending the work of his office and the prosecution of Roger Stone against the ongoing lies and slurs of Putin puppet Donald "Impeached Forever" Trump.  Here are a few snippets:
The work of the special counsel’s office — its report, indictments, guilty pleas and convictions — should speak for itself. But I feel compelled to respond both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so. [snip]
Russian efforts to interfere in our political system, and the essential question of whether those efforts involved the Trump campaign, required investigation. In that investigation, it was critical for us (and, before us, the FBI) to obtain full and accurate information. Likewise, it was critical for Congress to obtain accurate information from its witnesses. When a subject lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s efforts to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. It may ultimately impede those efforts.
We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false.
Mueller's op/ ed fills in the rest of the story for the record.  It's important that we not let the firehose of lies coming from the orange shitgibbon and his many hacks and enablers become the narrative.

Ad Blasts Trump's Stone Commutation


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Tweets Of The Day -- The Stone Commutation


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On the other hand, we've been assured by no less than Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) that Trump learned a "pretty big lesson" from being impeached. (Lesson: "I'm above the law.")

No Stitches For Stone: Trump Commutes Sentence



As expected, last night lawless demagogue and crime boss Donald "Individual 1" Trump commuted the 40 month sentence of his campaign bag man / co-conspirator / ratf*cker Roger Stone. Stone had been convicted by a jury of seven felonies, ranging from witness tampering to lying to Congress regarding his role as the Trump campaign's contact point for hacked e-mails provided by Russia's military intelligence services to their partner WikiLeaks during the 2016 Presidential campaign.

While the move by Trump was entirely expected for months, he waited until 4 days before convicted felon Stone was set to appear in prison to begin his sentence. The commutation of his dirty trickster sends yet another message that Trump will reward those that commit crimes on his behalf, as long as they remain silent:
"For a president who sparked a special counsel probe by firing an FBI director in the middle of an investigation and was later impeached for attempting to pressure a foreign government to investigate his political rival, the move to grant Stone clemency underscored his continued willingness to disrupt the nation’s legal and political norms just months before an election."
Trump appreciated that Stone kept his mouth shut, and Trump out of further legal peril. The obvious quid-pro-quo was indicated by Stone himself in a conversation last night with Beltway media fixture Howard Fineman:


So Stone didn't "turn on" Trump who was in on the whole dirty business, and as any good soldier in organized crime, you're rewarded by the boss for not snitching to the Feds. That's justice under the Trump regime.

BONUS:  Calling it "one of the most nauseating instances of corrupt government favoritism the United States has ever seen," the Washington Post concludes this morning's editorial saying, "If the country needed any more evidence, Friday confirmed that the greatest threat to the Republic is the president himself."

(photo: Stone in his casual Friday get-up)