President Trump can safely pardon who he wishes if he does it soon.
The last couple of elections indicate the American Public is not putting much merit in all of this nonsense or has tuned national politics out.
And it is far enough away from the the 2020 election to be forgotten if anyone did care.
Hopefully you are right, though with the latest governor loss in Louisiana, Trump may feel that his political capital, as unique as it is, may not support a current pardon. I sense he will make the decision to wait unto the appeal process is carried out, or at least until after the 2020 elections to pardon Stone.
This was probably the worst trial at this level in American history, where a biased judge, urged by a biased media, presided over a case with a biased charge, and allowed biased jury members over the objections of his attorney, where such biased, obviously hand-picked jurors wouldn’t even make it inside the courtroom for voir dire in the first place. In normal times, such a trial would be a no-brainer for appeal, and in fact Stone does have that right to appeal, but I fear that the appellate judge may have his orders given by Soros to deny Stone.
Of course, it will probably be too late for Stone to be pardoned after the 2020 election, as I agree with Stone’s sentiment of being Epsteined, with my own prediction that that timefram will occur sometimes during the appeal process.
President Trump can safely pardon who he wishes if he does it soon.
Only for federal crimes. NY State is making sure Manafort will die in solitary, etc.