Criminal in Chief Commutes Felony Sentence of Closest Associate
Roger Stone, Trump’s self described chief dirty trickster, has just had his sentence commuted by The President of the United States Don Donaldo Trumps, freeing him from paying the price for colluding with Russians, slandering political opponents and violating virtually every modicum of common decency and then lying to the DOJ about it. Let’s be clear here: Roger Stone colluded with Wiki Leaks founder Julian Assange to disclose thousands of emails stolen from DNC and staff emails to damage Hillary Clinton in 2016. He also participated in operations to slander Clinton and others. THEN, he lied to the DOJ about his activities. In an act of abject corruption (once again) Trump commuted Stone’s sentence to protect him from justice.
This corruption must not stand. Come January 20, 2021, the jails must be opened for those who have violated the public trust and made millions on the backs of honest Americans.
We can only hope. However, anyone holding their breaths. Will. Suffocate.
1I notice Roger didn’t get a Presidential Pardon. He would have to admit his guilt to accept the pardon. The commutation just will be spun on the “high spin” cycle to infer Stone’s innocence of this Democrat Witch Hunt!
2This on the same day as the DOJ sends Michael Cohen, who turned on Trump and has more facts to share, back to jail. Also, Barrf sends the Federal Prosecutor from the eastern district of NY packing, another office investigating Trump corruption. When January 21 comes, Barrf needs to Join Trumpf behind bars. This all makes the Nixon administration Look like amateur criminals. All in complete view of voters.
3They’ve redefined political corruption.
Seeing Stone’s shit- eating grin all over the internet may interfere with my sleep tonight.
4He and Benedict Donald make me sick!
Someone needs to abduct Roger Stone, bring him to a Texas tattoo parlor, and have a speech bubble added to his Nixon tattoo:
“I am a crook.”
5I’m betting that Trump commuted the sentence because it was the most he could get away with. Roger specifically said, “Don’t pardon me,” and expunging his record might be a bridge too far for enough of his base to make a difference this November.
But Donnie had to do SOMETHING — in order to see to it that Roger kept on staying quiet.
6The Rs’ disgusting corruption is bottomless.
7It was never a question of ‘if,’ but ‘when.’ It’s still always a shock and an outrage when he does it but that’s as it should be. We must never become inured to his actions and words. My favorite line about it so far is from George Takei: “Let he who is without morals commute the first Stone.”
8I am dredging my memory, seems like I know somebody who told me that Roger Stone was “ well into” writing a book about DT.
9That could be uncomfortable for some people…
Heather Cox Richardson, political historian, explains trump’s commuted vs pardoned strategy:
“It is interesting that Trump did not pardon Stone, but rather commuted his sentence. A presidential pardon takes away a person’s right to stay silent in court under the right established by the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution not to self-incriminate. It does so because there is no need to worry about conviction: you’ve been pardoned. A commutation does not take away that right, so Stone now cannot be compelled to testify.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-10-2020?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo2OTg5MDU3LCJwb3N0X2lkIjo2ODE5NzMsIl8iOiIzK2FjaiIsImlhdCI6MTU5NDQ3MjIwOCwiZXhwIjoxNTk0NDc1ODA4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjA1MzMiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.whSdq5SSDPaRTpCKh8KH_aW03MM6l38ELz7M7POpij4&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share
10@John 10, I came to paste the same thing! I look forward to her newsletter in my inbox every morning.
11Malarkey @11, even my conservative sister doesn’t consider her fake news!
12What I look forward to is The Don in his orange jumpsuit galumphing around the yard while all of his co-conspirators are walking around free. Misery may love company but there are some lonely times ahead for the orange sh*tgibbon (sorry, Mama).
13I’m sure those co-conspirators will always be too busy to go visit.
If I were a federal prosecutor who did not like Stone, I would have secretly held back a charge or three that could be filed after January 21. Just in case Trump freed his political yipping lapdog, as he has done.
On the other hand, Gerald Ford’s pardon of Nixon for any crimes he may have committed, not just the ones Watergate revealed, has always rankled. It’s the ultimate get out of jail free card, and I’ve always been curious about just how it can be legal. It’s relevant now because I can see Trump issuing such a pardon for all of his family members, political suck-ups, and racist advisors.
14Isn’t it such a joy to live in a banana republic shithole under a craptastic cabal headed by Comrade Bonespurs, the most corrupt POS in modern times?
Let’s not forget any of this criminality and treason, let’s bury every last one of these Republican muthafuckers on 3 November.
15GOTGDV!
Manafort will be next as soon as he has to report back to jail. I’m wondering how many in the WH have been promised pardons just before Trump exits?
16What really chaps me is when his majesty loses (please God!) he and his co-conspirators will be able to walk around like upstanding people, still spewing their evil.
17El Jefe, you have to love my speed reading, at least sometimes. Read you header as, hmmm, let me state this as Momma proof as possible, so: Criminal in Chief Commits Felony in Closet with Associate. Do what one will do with “felony” but you get the gist.
18Harry Litman @harrylitman
From Barr’s confirmation hearing:
Q: Do you believe a president could lawfully issue a pardon in exchange for the recipient’s promise to not incriminate him?”
Barr: “No, that would be a crime.”
19Burnt Orange! In Texas.
Lots of other toasted tidbits at the links:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/20200712_TX.pdf
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/public-health/2020/07/12/joe-biden-builds-lead-over-donald-trump-in-reliably-red-texas-as-voters-sour-on-handling-of-virus/
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/7/12/1960100/-UTT-POLL-Biden-is-blowing-by-Trump-in-TEXAS-48-to-43-Likely-Voters-This-is-HAPPENING
“In the latest UTT [UT-Tyler] Poll Biden is beating Trump 48% to 43%. He is almost at 50% now, and his showing in this particular poll universe has gone from dead even on May 2nd to now a 5% lead.
If Biden can win Texas not only is Trump doomed for the election, but Texas will have turned BLUE and will likely remain blue as demographic changes favoring Democrats in that state were already going to make the state blue before long anyway. That spells doom for the GOP because without California, New York, Texas and Florida they can’t win in a Presidential election, this year and future years. ”
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So the goddamned Democratic Party had better get in gear down here, with less than four months to go.
A lot of Texas Dem money has gone outstate to the D Party [some of it mine]. The time to plow some back is NOW!
Flipping Texas is worth any three effen piddlyass “swing states” like WI, MI etc.
New voter registrations are way up in TX too, with a 2-1 Democratic advantage.
GOTGDMFV!!
20Ad hominem though it may be, Commander-in-thief is a more appropriate insult to trumpl-thin-skin than criminal-in-chief.
And so it goes…
21The latest and greatest is that the commute wasn’t filed. So…. now let the fun begin
22As for this old deteriorating JERK, there is so much bad stuff in his background that he could easily be arrested on some other charge and still spend his last days in jail.
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