Judge Schools Stone While Shooting Down His Request To Get Her Kicked Out Of His Case

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Judge Amy Berman Jackson doesn’t have time for Roger Stone’s attempt to get her kicked out of his criminal case.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1292839
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Flip, Roger. There is no pardon coming. It’ll be “I barely knew the guy…he worked some on the campaign, but I don’t really remember him.”

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Her Honor’s decision should have been accompanied by a contempt of court citation for Stone, incarceration effective immediately.

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All kind of moot in the long term, since Stone is getting pardoned. Why he flails about with all these legal gambits is puzzling. Trump’s opinion of Stone and the tribulations that led him to where he is is set in concrete. Trump is pissed because Stone’s conviction and pending jail stint represents a victory by the Deep State over one of his friends. He won’t stand for it. Stone is in a different class of persons than Cohen or Manafort, Trump will not let him languish in prison. Yet Stone keeps shoveling money to lawyers. Weird. Just sit tight and STFU, the cavalry is just over the hill.

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I believe one will be coming relatively soon. Trump is chomping at the bit to grant one to Stone.

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Because he’s an attention-whore.

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Right now everything is a finger in the eye to the Left. It’s all about revenge and owning the libs, along with serving notice the “Deep State” is wasting its time trying to undermine Trump. Do your worst, it’ll be wiped away with a pardon, a commutation, the firing of the tormentors, an Executive Order, or some other move rendering whatever you’re up to moot.

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“…nothing more than an attempt to use the Court’s docket to disseminate a statement for public consumption that has the words ‘judge’ and ‘biased in it,” Berman concluded.”

Your Honor, if you ever get tired of that judge gig, it’s clear you could have a second career in wingnut communications. You’ve nailed the essence. But, please, please, please, don’t give up your day job.

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True, but his attention seeking comes at a price, in actual legal fees. I suppose someone else is paying for it all, or he thinks he’ll recoup them down the road in book and speaking fees.

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This is all theater for Stone. He’s having a ball with this. He’s not paying for it.

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To be fair, “integrity” is generally gonna mean Roger gets stiffed.

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A ball until the cell door clangs shut.

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There is almost certainly a pardon coming. If his criminal co-conspirators are not pardoned, they will flip, just like Michael Cohen did. They only have to wait until November 4.

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A well-constructed argument. Like the epic battles of World War II, we’re going to win some and lose some because we’re up against a vicious and treacherous enemy. But the thing about the judge I appreciate is that she didn’t preemptively surrender out of fear, intimidation, and the fantasy that, after all, the Trumpistas might have a point (the besetting sin of our media).

She basically told him to take his motion and shove it up his ass.

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Brave brave Sir Federal Judicial Committee ran away…

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Yes, Roger, the word “integrity” is pejorative because you never had any and never will. Too bad, too sad.

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Stone is the functional equivalent of a rodeo clown … draws attention … entertains the partisan crowd … and all the attention devoted to Stone’s moronic antics is attention not spent on other crap that Trump is doing… or on intelligent political discussions.

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Not gonna happen.

Roger Stone is a “True Believer” with a “Martyr Complex”. The man has a tattoo of Richard M. Nixon on his back for christsake! He won’t roll on Trump and Trump knows it so he does not have to risk issuing a pardon for him.

Stone is much more useful to Trump as a “Bull-in-the-China-Shop” side-show attraction to keep the MSM distracted from the Russians running his re-election campaign.

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However, he is a much worse dresser.

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Thank you for this. I’ve been watching her in amazement. Despite wishing for a much stronger sentance for Stone, it’s been wonderful to observe her resolute strength.

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