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Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson just sentenced Trump confidant and dirty trickster Roger Stone to 40 months in prison. Stone entered the courtroom accompanied by several Proud Boys.
Fox News reports:
The judge in the case of longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone appeared to take a firm stance toward the Republican operative ahead of deciding how severe Stone’s punishment should be for making false statements to investigators during the Trump-Russia probe. “Mr. Stone lied,” U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said in court.
Jackson, though, also referenced how Stone had violated court orders not to talk about the case, accusing him of “intimidating behavior” including a social media post that included a picture of her with what looked like gun crosshairs over her head. Stone blamed staff for the Instagram post, but the judge sharply rebuked him.
“He knew exactly what he was doing,” Jackson said, adding that it “was designed to disrupt” the proceedings. During Stone’s sentencing hearing, President Trump himself weighed in, questioning the “fairness” of prosecuting his former associate.
“They say Roger Stone lied to Congress.” @CNN OH, I see, but so did Comey (and he also leaked classified information, for which almost everyone, other than Crooked Hillary Clinton, goes to jail for a long time), and so did Andy McCabe, who also lied to the FBI! FAIRNESS?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 20, 2020
w/o naming Trump explicitly, she alludes to certain comments about the case and calls them “entirely inappropriate”
“But I will not hold them against the defendant either,” she says.
“Roger Stone will not be sentenced for who his friends are, or who his enemies are,” she says.
— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) February 20, 2020
“He is not being sentenced for exercising his first amendment rights,” ABJ says.
ABJ: “He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the president, he was prosecuted for covering up for the president.”
— Tierney Sneed (@Tierney_Megan) February 20, 2020
Judge sums up case thusly: “He was not prosecuted for standing up for the president; he was prosecuted for covering up for the president.”
— Rachel Weiner (@rachelweinerwp) February 20, 2020
“Roger Stone took it on himself to lie…”
“It was largely Stone’s own emails and texts that prove the allegations beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Jackson says Stone’s defense case is essentially “so what” which she rejects as “pernicious” – “the truth still matters”
— Gonzo News (@GonzoNewsNinja) February 20, 2020
On Stone’s defense of “So what?” judge echoes prosecutors: “Of all the circumstances in this case, that may be the most pernicious. The truth still exists, the truth still matters. Roger Stone’s insistence that it doesn’t … are a threat to our most fundamental institutions”
— Rachel Weiner (@rachelweinerwp) February 20, 2020
At last, a sentence — total of 40 months in the Bureau of Prisons.
— Rachel Weiner (@rachelweinerwp) February 20, 2020