In a court filing Monday evening, prosecutors recommended to a federal judge that former Trump associate Roger Stone serves seven to nine years in prison for lying to Congress and witness tampering during the Russia probe.
So that makes how many intimate Trump associates in federal lockup?
I’m sure there’s a pardon and a Medal of Freedom in his future.
(The next President should abolish that particular honor, since it’s now been irreparably sullied. Come up with something new.)
This is me being sad about this.
Yes, please, make it a big sentence so that it’s even more infuriating when Trump eventually responds by pardoning him.
“Roger Stone obstructed Congress’ investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, lied under oath, and tampered with a witness,” prosecutors wrote in the filing. “And when his crimes were revealed by the indictment in this case, he displayed contempt for this Court and the rule of law".
Tough break, Roger.
If only you’d been tried by the Senate.
They reward those things.
Trump Full Pardon incoming in 3…2…1…
Prosecutors recommend Stone get 7 to 9 years prison sentence, which I think means in legalese he’ll probably end up getting 28 days like he’s going to a short term rehab facility for DC felons.
White man’s justice in a white collar world. Just watch and see.
Trump should brand a package deal.
Medal of Freedom on one side, full pardon on the other, now there’s a collectible his grifters could hawk on the toobs.
Any Trump medal SHOULD be two-faced…
Better start getting in shape by running. Rodger,some one is wanting to get a rep,they may want to make you a movie star like Richard Speck.
Pardon he may, unfortunately, poor Rog will never have a functional frontal lobe. I don’t think there are transplants for those. Frontal lobes are important for the development of an adult with an understanding of grown up tasks and moral behaviors.
I guess no one told the prosecutors about the way things now work in the DoJ…I’m sure Barr will be along shortly to educate them.
The real question about all of these various malefactors that helped Trump is if they will serve any jail time. I expect them to get pardoned, quietly, sometime after the election, without any kind of DoJ process happening, just Trump and Barr trying to get their favorite felons off. And, add in a blanket pardon from Trump to whoever in the administration might be threatened with jail time to get their testimony…Nixon got pardoned before being charged with a crime, so they will use that as the reasoning to pre-pardon people.
I really can’t wait for the Republican justification for all the sneakiness that is to come…as things get even worse their prostrations to the emperor will get ever larger.
I’m down with that as long as the announcement of late stage lung cancer is included.
Roger Stone was part of a successful, foreign-led conspiracy to subvert US elections and install Putin’s criminal accomplice at the top of our federal government.
His crimes couldn’t have been more vicious if he’d held a knife to Lady Liberty’s neck.
“White-collar” is one hell of a euphemism for oligarchy.
Stone is set to be sentenced next week after being found guilty on all of the counts against him, including obstruction, five counts of false statements, and witness tampering.
Boy, that sentence (7-9 years) doesn’t sound like much, considering all his crimes.
But has he lived an otherwise baneful life?
What are you talking about? 7-9, plus a pardon. That’s fair. It’s not like he’s black and driving with a non-functional tail-light…
Catch fire Roger?
I’ll hold my urine.
jw1
One of those days I guess.
“A judge has indefinitely postponed former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s sentencing on a charge of lying to the FBI as Flynn presses to withdraw the guilty plea he entered more than two years ago in a case prosecuted by special counsel Robert Mueller.”
OK so nobody, not one person, feels good that fucking Roger Stone was recommended a prison sentence that most of us would feel some dismay on drawing? Doesn’t anybody wish they could have seen his face when that request was made? He didn’t endear himself to the judge, as I recall. And since I’m aging, I suppose, I’m also struggling to recall a time Trump pardoned any of his actual co-conspirators just yet. So I’m not assuming he will and I don’t think Stone should either.