The Thriller
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Remember when hillarys private email was the scandal of the century? Good times
The official "let's impeach Trump" thread
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Red
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President Trump commutes sentence of longtime friend, adviser Roger Stone
President Trump has commuted the sentence of his longtime friend and former campaign adviser Roger Stone, the White House announced on Friday.abcnews.go.com
For someone always preaching law and order, he sure doesn’t follow it.
Not where his friends are concerned...
Roger Stone: Trump proves his love for 'law and order' doesn't apply to friends | Analysis
Analysis: The president’s commutation of his longtime adviser’s prison sentence was spectacularly unsurprising
www.theguardian.com
“According to Howard Fineman, an NBC News analyst, Stone said of Trump earlier on Friday: “He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn’t.” The implication being that Stone could have revealed damaging information about the president if he chose”.
Roger Stone, in service to the two most corrupt presidents in modern times. But he will need a bigger tattoo of Trump, the most corrupt president of all time....
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Red
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I’ve said it before, and it’s worth repeating. Donald Trump always dreamed of being a mob boss. As it turned out, the office of the Presidency of the United States was plenty close enough.
Avery
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Not where his friends are concerned...
Roger Stone: Trump proves his love for 'law and order' doesn't apply to friends | Analysis
Analysis: The president’s commutation of his longtime adviser’s prison sentence was spectacularly unsurprising
“According to Howard Fineman, an NBC News analyst, Stone said of Trump earlier on Friday: “He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn’t.” The implication being that Stone could have revealed damaging information about the president if he chose”.
Roger Stone, in service to the two most corrupt presidents in modern times. But he will need a bigger tattoo of Trump, the most corrupt president of all time....
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Basically, quid pro quo. And admits as much.
Vote and get these yahoos out.
Zombie
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What goes around comes around I guess.
Red
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Mueller op ed on Roger Stone:
“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.”
“Congress also investigated and sought information from Stone. A jury later determined he lied repeatedly to members of Congress. He lied about the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks. He lied about the existence of written communications with his intermediary. He lied by denying he had communicated with the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases. He in fact updated senior campaign officials repeatedly about WikiLeaks. And he tampered with a witness, imploring him to stonewall Congress.”
“The jury ultimately convicted Stone of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress and tampering with a witness. Because his sentence has been commuted, he will not go to prison. But his conviction stands.”
www.theguardian.com
“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.”
“Congress also investigated and sought information from Stone. A jury later determined he lied repeatedly to members of Congress. He lied about the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks. He lied about the existence of written communications with his intermediary. He lied by denying he had communicated with the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases. He in fact updated senior campaign officials repeatedly about WikiLeaks. And he tampered with a witness, imploring him to stonewall Congress.”
“The jury ultimately convicted Stone of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress and tampering with a witness. Because his sentence has been commuted, he will not go to prison. But his conviction stands.”
Robert Mueller breaks his silence and condemns Trump for commuting Roger Stone's sentence
US special counsel defends his investigation into allegations of corruption during 2016 election
www.theguardian.com
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JimLes
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Can we talk about how ridiculously medieval the institution of a presidential(and gubernatorial) pardon is? The idea that the executive branch should have the power to not just interfere with the job of the judicial, but completely overrule them is both an anachronism and a serious violation of basic principles representative democracy is founded on. It is for all practical purposes something out of an absolute monarchy where a king has the power of life and death over his subjects and can dispense justice base on his whims.
I cannot for the love of me see the actual benefit of this institution.
I cannot for the love of me see the actual benefit of this institution.
Archie Moses
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NAOS
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I wonder if Susan Collins think Trump has learned his lesson yet?
NAOS
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... lol
