On July 4, Donald Trump said 99% of coronavirus cases are “totally harmless.”
Donald Trump must figure Roger Stone is a one-percenter. Among the reasons Trump cited in his rambling, lie-filled justification for commuting his political pal’s prison sentence for tampering with witnesses and lying to Congress, the White House says, “Mr. Stone would be put at serious medical risk in prison.”
Roger Stone totally agrees that he could have died of coronavirus in prison… but at least Stone had the consistency to wear a mask while saying so:
“The president has saved my life,” Stone said, “And he’s given me the opportunity to fight for vindication.”
He previously had said that any period in a federal prison would amount to a death sentence, given the coronavirus pandemic and his health problems. “I’m 67 years old. I had very, very severe asthma as a child. If you look at the profile of those who are most at risk, I think I fit that,” he said earlier [Alicia Victoria Lozano, “Roger Stone: President Trump ‘Saved My Life’ by Commuting Prison Sentence,” NBC News, 2020.07.10].
Dang: if we could just indict more of Trump’s pals, the White House might finally take coronavirus seriously.
Added to his ultimate betrayal of his obligations to the Constitution, now he slaps the face of Lady Justice. The silence of Senate Republicans will be so loud as to break the film of ice on a small pond somewhere in a distant galaxy. They had their chance to make American values stand miles tall with a conviction in the Senate Trial. What trial? Oh, that one. So now, remember when he said he was the nation’s “Chief law enforcement officer” after the impeachment? What law is he enforcing now? Not any law except the law of his drug and ego driven brain. America is a laughing stock. What made America great was its legal system…”Make America Great Again.” Not in this administration…not now, not ever…as long as Trump is president. Trump, Murdering America, one system at a time, one citizen at a time…make that handfuls at a time.
Stone won’t see a prison, but he will always be known as a convicted felon. His record is not wiped clean.
Sorry, MFI. As long as he (Stone) receives one line of ink or one second of airtime he will be considered exonerated.
If he is shunned by all and refused service everywhere it still will not be enough punishment. This will never happen as long as there are republicans.
There are at least 137,200 bodies as of now in drumpf’s body count. Prisoners die of covid every day. Most of them are not special buds to a criminal like drumpf.
drumpf spends a majority of is time protecting is own ass and not the lives of his alleged constituents that voted for him, except for a few exceptions.
No matter what he says or does, Stone, like drumpf, will carry that shame with him until death.
Let’s be hopeful that further justice will find and make it’s mark on more than a handful of other of Trump’s aides and those surrounding him in his quest to being the worst president ever, even Nixon was better than this clown.
Continuing on the Erickson prison issue in another thread in a time of covid pandemic, “prosecutors said they considered Stone a public safety risk for his violent rhetoric, and the judge, in her decision to send Stone to jail on Tuesday indicated his pre- and post-trial behavior was part of the consideration.“
Erickson’s confidential PSI (sentencing report) likely included rationale to imprison the back-channel Trump/Putin spy-lover/grifter high level GOP operator, pre- and post- behavior.
The White House attacked Mueller: “These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice,” the statement said. “The simple fact is that if the Special Counsel had not been pursuing an absolutely baseless investigation”… blah blah. “By granting a commutation to Stone rather than an outright pardon, Trump allows his longtime adviser and confidant to continue with his appeal of his convictions.”
“For Trump, a commutation serves two additional purposes: protecting a close political ally who was deeply tied to his campaign’s effort to promote WikiLeaks’ hacked emails from the Clinton campaign AND casting doubt on the subsequent investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election by Mueller.”
Erickson was investigated and prosecuted as well for his role in “Russian interference in the 2016 election” as many in the GOP (McConnell, Thune, MaCarthy, Nunes ect) should be. Instead they are treated gently by Barr’s DOJ it appears.
Fundamentally, Mueller released his final report, with othes, which offered significant evidence that Trump and these GOP enablers sought to obstruct the investigation. Politico
Stone is just about as nuts as Lying Lunatic. I hope they end up in adjacent cells with cellmates that have untreated anger issues.
Chris Hayes nailed it — labeling the republican party the “pro-COVID party.”
Hayes reminded that this modern republican party gave the nation 2 recent presidencies that brought the country to its knees. Their corruption is more than 2 presidents, for it includes all their enablers — including the mutts representing South Dakota.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chris-hayes-gop-donald-trump-coronavirus-disaster_n_5f097ac9c5b6480493d06bcb
Drove through some of the Black Hills today. Crowds and not a social distance in sight. The resurgence of COVID19 will be a sight to behold. Bring on the motorcycle rally.
What did Stone have to worry about in prison? Didn’t Trump reassure us that covid-19 was just a hoax? There didn’t seem to be any concern about the virus affecting Cohen as he was sent back to prison.
Ruh oh, Roger Stone may not be off the hook.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday demanded more information about President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of longtime ally Roger Stone.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson ordered that the parties provide her by Tuesday with a copy of the executive order that commuted Stone’s sentence. She also asked for clarity about the scope of the clemency, including whether it covers just his prison sentence or also the two-year period of supervised release that was part of his sentence.”https://apnews.com/1fe47f74af5fa3cee5e0c852da53e1be
Boy, wouldn’t that be a hoot to see this pointy head heading for the slammer..