1. He is white. 2. He is rich or has rich “friends.” |
| 3. His sister, Betsy, is in Trump's Cabinet. |
A lot of people lie to congress and aren't prosecuted, even black people. |
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At 1:30 this morning, Trump tweeted about the harshness of Stone's sentencing guidelines, which went through much debate and vetting internally at DOJ.
This afternoon, the DOJ has indicated it will revise the guidelines to something much more lenient. |
I smell a pardon |
| I bet some more heads will roll at the DOJ. The sentencing is harsh due to Stones witness tampering before and during the trial. Don’t forget about his tweet of cross hairs on the judge. I hope Trump is all over this. Democrats will spin this all the way to the election. Trump needs to be shown that old men can indeed go to prison. |
What? He lied and his lies were material to other investigations. |
Read it again. Stone serves jail. Trump’s interference is more proof of abuse of power. This is a good thing. |
“Serves” should be “deserves”. No edit function here. ? |
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The Judge, not the DOJ, determines the sentence. That the DOJ is doing this at the behest of the White House, shows how shamless it is.
The beauty, if it is a "harsher" penalty, Trump will be more inclined to pardon Stone. A pardoned individual has to proffer to the crimes and has no Fifth Amendment rights in future testimony, including on Capitol Hill. |
| Aaron Zelinsky, one of Mueller’s prosecutors, just filed a notice to withdraw from the Stone case, the day that DOJ officials said they would override the line prosecutors and recommend a lower sentencing for the president’s longtime friend and campaign advisor. |