Trump Denies He Intervened But Says DOJ’s Proposed Roger Stone Sentence Was ‘Ridiculous’ | Talking Points Memo

President Donald Trump on Tuesday called the Justice Department’s initial sentencing recommendation for his friend and adviser Roger Stone “ridiculous” but denied intervening on Stone’s behalf to make the proposed sentence lighter.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1290693
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Schiff, if you’re listening

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Trump is inherently corrupt, unethical and immoral.

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Everyone besides the Trumpers knows that he is lying.

Not the kind of hassle a King should be troubled with.

Because he ISN’T.

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You know I like you, but have to disagree here. If he wasn’t concerned, he’d be all owning his shit, saying that of course he did it, and it was perfectly fine and within his rights to do.

Just like the perfect Ukraine call.

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Not-a-Liar-600x434

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“Lock her up!”

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Actually I was trying to say the same thing you were (namely that the fucker is DAMNED concerned). English is a second language for me sometimes and trying to be too cute can backfire.

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Ah, my apologies, kind sir. Didn’t catch that from your post, a little too subtle for me to glean.

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Elmo%20(But%20Her%20Pantsuits!)

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He didn’t talk to Justice Department officials, I’m sure of that. He screamed at Mulvaney, and Mulvaney carried the message. It’s a lie wrapped in truth.

And of course, Mulvaney won’t answer a subpeona because being ordered to commit a crime is executive privilege…

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No sleaze is too sleazy for the sleazeball-in-chief.

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Yeah, right. And we all know that Trump . . . never . . . lies . . . right?

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I dunno. A lot of people keep believing him when he says he never drinks…

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OK sure Trump did not intervene but he said this too. And no he does not have an absolute right.
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Asked about Roger Stone, Trump says he has an “absolute right” to tell the Justice Department what to do pic.twitter.com/AZRv9Aff7P

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) February 11, 2020

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Uh oh. Bill under the bus.

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“It was the worst accident I ever seen.”

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“I stay out of things to a degree that people wouldn’t believe, but I didn’t speak to them,”
No Donnie, we don’t believe you stay out of anything.

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If Trump weren’t uncontrollably impulsive and Barr a mere lickspittle simply doing what he knew would please his king, the crassly reduced sentence would barely even rise to the level of, “will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”

But that’s Trump and that’s not Barr: this is a metastasizing tyranny and it needs dedicated soldiers who know damned well which side of their bread will be buttered if they obey the king; Stone is another exemplar that king’s men will be protected.

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