A judge shut down a bid last week from GOP provocateur Roger Stone for a retrial, only revealing the convicted Trump ally’s Feb. 5 request in a public order on Wednesday.
“The public was tainted by my tweets and Instagram posts, so I need a new trial…”
I’m surprised this didn’t fly.
“Stone moved for a new trial under seal, purportedly claiming that the jury pool in the case had been tainted by publicity.”
Claimed the guy who had to be told and ordered repeatedly to obey a gag order designed to keep it from being overly publicized…
Know what’s irrelevant at this point? Our justice system.
Well, it’s not irrelevant to its victims …
Who on the White House staff drew the short straw to tell Trump he can’t fire a federal judge?
(The rage-filled toilet tweets are gonna be epic!)
Stone moved for a new trial under seal last week, purportedly claiming that the jury pool in the case had been tainted by publicity.
Perhaps the Judge would have been more receptive had Stone been a little more honest with his reason: The jury pool in the case had been tainted, not by publicity, but by proximity… to Stone.
Whereas shooting a federal judge dead on Fifth Avenue remains an option.
If they have too many more 15 flush days, I wonder if the staff will try to ask NASA for a vacuum-suction model.
Whiny little bitch wanted a do-over.
But, he filed the motion under seal because he didn’t want everyone to know what a whiny little bitch he is.
I see that the numbnuts on Twitter have come up with a Recall Romney petition.
Who’s going to tell them that they know as much about how government works as Trumpie does?
Someone with too much time and not enough purpose.
Yes. It would certainly be a waste of time.
THis SILLYIness will end wheN Stone IS pardoned. PardON alreadY.
This is all kabuki, neither Stone or Flynn are serving a single day in prison.
“Tainted by publicity?” That’s rich! Such frickin’ hubris!
We’re about to find out exactly how far he can go to make her life miserable, and how effective the restraints will be that prevent that kind of thing from happening.
Well, she’s still a federal judge, and federal judges still have a fair degree of influence over defendants, last I heard, and they tend to resist efforts to immiserate them.
Too close for comfort.
Doesn’t matter to him. He always has the option of publicly calling for any crazy out there to do whatever harm they can to whomever he is pissed at in that moment.
It makes things a lot easier for the chickenshit who only likes to say “You’re fired” in TV game shows but never has the nerve to look someone in the eye and tell them they are and why. He’s only fired people by tweet, by surrogates, or by spouting off to cameras so that the mobsters in and outside his circle know what they are supposed to do.
That might be all they need to know. If he’s “the government” now, then it works whatever way he tells them it does. The fact that we have a couple hundred years of documents and precedence that say things are different doesn’t seem to matter to him or them.