Trump Teases Stone Exoneration | Talking Points Memo

President Trump teased the possibility of exonerating Roger Stone within hours of the longtime GOP operative being sentenced to 40 months in prison Thursday for lying to Congress in the Russia probe.


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I know this is said several hundred million times a day, but for the record, what a horse’s ass. Sorry horses!

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His frontal lobes are disintegrating.

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Well… The downside of pardoning a co-conspirator is that with a blanket pardon, they cannot take the 5th and could be forced to testify against Trump.

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It’s intriguing that Trump has pardoned all manner of people who were convicted of fraud, obstruction of justice, criminal contempt of court, and so on, but not a single one of the Trumpist operatives who’ve gone down: Cohen, Manafort, Papadopoulos, Pinedo, van der Zwaan, Stone, Gates, Flynn.

There must be some element in there of “people who have personally failed me,” probably because they got caught.

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Dear Fat Nixon:

In the real world, talk of exoneration generally makes no sense mere hours after, um, the conviction and sentencing that literally just concluded, and in either case, requires, you know, evidence to counter the mountain of evidence that was used to convict. Good luck with that, Tubs.

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Sir, you should have done something about that syphilis before it ate your brain*.

*If there ever was a brain.

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Does tRump understand that IF you NEED a pardon you cannot be Exonerated

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You and I know that, but I’ll wager that Trump doesn’t understand it, not even dimly. As I just posted above, I think there’s something else going in Trump’s warped brain.

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I am so proud of Trump.

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No, Trump thinks if he pardons Stone then Stone will then be ‘exonerated’.
Stone will still be guilty. And Trump will always be impeached.

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Wharton must be so proud…

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Benedict Donald, the President with a 300 word vocabulary, talks gibberish today. Anyone called for jury duty in federal court should indicate they do not want to serve on a jury out of fear that they could be called out by the Orange one. Dog help us.

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Meaningless. Clemency isn’t exoneration.

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Let me get this straight: Current Occupant made these remarks about a guy who is headed to prison on the merits to a group of former prisoners? Because… why?
The stupidity boggles one’s mind.

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If Stone was never part of Trump’s campaign, then why would anti-Trump bias of a juror be an issue?

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Hopefully tRump will joining Stone in the Graybar Hotel.

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My Scottish Terrier has a larger vocabulary and is markedly more intelligent than this dipshit. Newsflash, moron, a pardon doesn’t “ exonerate” by definition. The Central Park 5 WERE exonerated and you still consider them guilty.
Can you even tie your own shoes?

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Watch Trump’s remarks below:

Not in this life time.
Maybe they’ll play them on the walls when I get to Hell, but that’s an eventuality I’ll happily risk.

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The only positive about this self inflicted mess.

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