Posted on 02/16/2020 5:04:39 AM PST by Kaslin
This week was dominated by the questions regarding the sentencing of political operative Roger Stone. Last January, he was subjected to a pre-dawn raid by federal officials carrying assault rifles. Somehow, CNN was informed about the raid and their cameras captured the dramatic footage of agents entering his home and arresting Stone. The former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Trump was eventually charged and convicted of making false statements, obstruction of an official proceeding and witness tampering.
The foreman of the jury that convicted Stone was Tomeka Hart, who revealed herself this week with public statements about the case. Hart is a former Democratic Party congressional candidate who made online comments that were critical of both Stone and President Donald Trump. She tweeted about Trump with the hashtag “klanpresident,” shouted “shame, shame shame” outside one of his hotels during a protest and referred to Stone and other supporters of the President as “racists and Putin cronies,” according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. In his view, there is a “serious question as to whether the conviction itself” of Roger Stone “should be reevaluated.”
It was also discovered that another juror was married to an official of the Department of Justice (DOJ) who worked in a division that spearheaded the Stone arrest, while another juror, Seth Cousins, had made donations to Beto O’Rourke, a Democratic Party candidate for President, along with other left wing organizations. With such incredible bias on the jury, Stone had no chance of receiving a fair trial. It is no surprise that his attorneys have asked for a new trial in a secret court filing according to Chuck Ross of The Daily Caller.
The DOJ initially recommended that Stone receive a jail sentence of between seven and nine years in prison. These guidelines were blasted by President Donald Trump who called them “a disgrace.” Of course, convicting Stone was part of the discredited Mueller investigation. Stone was never involved in Russian collusion and had no conversations with Wikileaks.
As President Trump noted, Stone was being prosecuted for “something nobody can even define.” He lied about conversations with a liberal talk show host, supposedly threatened his dog and engaged in other peripheral activities that had no bearing on the original purpose of the Mueller investigation.
Fortunately, United States Attorney General Bill Barr revised the sentencing guidelines to a more reasonable length of between three and four years. Nevertheless, the fact that Stone is being prosecuted is an outrage. He is also under a gag order by the judge, denying him his First Amendment rights of free speech.
In contrast to the harsh treatment received by Stone and other Trump associates like Lt. General Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, the denizens of the deep state never receive any consequences for their behavior.
For example, former Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, no longer must worry about being prosecuted. On Friday, a questionable decision was made not to issue any charges and drop the investigation into McCabe, who was the subject of a criminal referral by DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz.
This decision was made even though Horowitz identified multiple instances of McCabe lying about leaking information to the Wall Street Journal. According to Horowitz, McCabe disclosed “the existence of an ongoing investigation,” which violated both FBI and DOJ policy.
After his activities were uncovered, McCabe was initially demoted and eventually fired from his FBI position. Thereafter, he filed a lawsuit against the DOJ alleging that his firing was “politically motivated.”
The official statement clearing McCabe was made by J.P. Cooney, chief of the Department of Justice’s Fraud and Public Corruption Section and Assistant United States Attorney Molly Gaston. In the letter sent to McCabe’s attorneys, Cooney and Gaston state that “the Government has decided not to pursue criminal charges against your client…. Based on the totality of the circumstances and all of the information known to the Government at this time, we consider the matter closed.”
This is another victory for those involved in plotting the political coup to overthrow the results of the 2016 election and remove President Trump from office. McCabe was at the forefront of the FBI’s effort to investigate the Trump campaign and President Trump and his administration.
McCabe joins Hillary Clinton and many other political enemies of President Trump who have been exonerated, even though they have been accused of committing serious crimes.
It leads many Trump supporters to openly question the fairness and integrity of the DOJ and to contend that there is a definite double standard of justice in our country.
You just wait! Barr will get his revenge!! /sarcasm off
If they s keeps up, there will be blood. I guess that’s ultimately what the Deep State wants.
Gee, thanks a ton.
That's was mighty big of Bagpipes. I am sure the Stone's wife want to send Barr a gift basket now.
Fighting this specific battle was determined to be a waste of time and resources.
Other battles will be won using less time and resources
The DOJ, FBI, ATF, IRS, CIA, NSAB SCOTUS, several Federal courts are completely and totally corrupt and can not be changed in just 2 election cycles. Our Republic is on It’s last legs before the SHTF CW
President Trump and his supporters believe that it can.
President Trump was so convinced that the Decadence of Western Civilization, at least in America, could be reversed--and that the USA could be pulled back from the brink of self-destruction and sent soaring into unprecedented heights of ascendancy--that he was willing to risk everything--in his case, a considerable amount!--to save his beloved USA from decadence and destruction.
This is what he meant when he said: "The best is yet to come!"
This is what he meant when he said: "The party's over. I'm going to clean up Washington," and it was this vow to reverse the decadence that sparked the 4-year-long attempt to stage a coup d'état in the USA and nullify the 2016 Presidential Election.
This is what the "impeachment" scam was all about. Those afflicted by the decadence and those profiting from it were determined, from the very beginning, to prevent him from interfering with their gravy train, their power, luxuries, and privileges, from interrupting and reversing the decadence, which served their selfish interests.
Apparently, the FBI and other trusted US institutions have been deeply corrupted by the decadence.
Whether all of America's sacred institutions--including the vote--have been corrupted and whether decadence, once established, can be reversed remain to be seen.
However the honest and benevolent must fight to reverse the decadence, to clean up the corruption that it has allowed. We owe it to future generations. We owe it to our children. We owe it to the world. We owe it to ourselves.
Pray for President Trump. Pray that he is right, that decadence can be reversed and corruption expunged. Pray for America. Pray for the world.
Congratulations, you finally picked a decent news summary. Partial Credit goes to Jeff Crouere.
But then there is this:
“Fortunately, United States Attorney General Bill Barr revised the sentencing guidelines to a more reasonable length of between three and four years.”
Crouere, after calling out the toxic jury, succumbs to brain fog describing Barr’s BS intervention as “more reasonable”.
No, it’s not more reasonable. It’s just more Barr and bagpipes.
There should be no more trials in DC. Hold the trials in a neighboring state. Let the defense lawyer pick the state.
I asked a history major one time if any society had turned itself around after becoming decadent. He said he would have to think about it. He came back the next day and said, “No. I don’t know of such a society.”
Is the U.S. too far gone?
Yes. Trump is the Last President.
6th Amendment
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law...
Once again, we see a very strange alliance working hard to destroy Barr. It’s not just the Democrats, the Deep State, and the Main Street Media; they are joined by a bunch of Odd Fellows from Free Republic. These usual suspects can be counted on to attack anyone trying to counter the Deep State, usually on grounds that they haven’t been able to accomplish this within 30 days. The Administrative State, the Deep State, the Swamp, whatever you want to call it has been building since the Roosevelt Administration, but somehow it should be destroyed overnight. Barr is not moving fast enough, so off with his head.
“Other battles will be won using less time and resources”
Okay, put the bong down. You’ve had more than enough.
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Yup.
Stone gets three to four years -- McCabe gets zip-a-dee-doo-da.
We now have an example of how Barr will act and it's not good.
Once again, we see a very strange alliance working hard to destroy Barr. It’s not just the Democrats, the Deep State, and the Main Street Media; they are joined by a bunch of Odd Fellows from Free Republic. These usual suspects can be counted on to attack anyone trying to counter the Deep State, usually on grounds that they haven’t been able to accomplish this within 30 days. The Administrative State, the Deep State, the Swamp, whatever you want to call it has been building since the Roosevelt Administration, but somehow it should be destroyed overnight. Barr is not moving fast enough, so off with his head.
Fortunately, Barr has the full-throated support of McConnell. Now ask yourself: why is McConnell such a big fan of Barr? Time and again McConnell has failed to support POTUS. Yet here he is standing by his man, Bagpipe Bill Barr.
The DOJ is irredeemable and needs to be dissolved. We didn’t have a Department of Justice for almost a hundred years, and it has done a terrible job at delivering justice.
Bagpiping Bill Barr is just sweeping everything under the rug so they can go back to the real issues, like making sure you can’t use encryption without giving the Deepstate a backdoor to warrentlessly spy on you.
Good thinking. The Democrats and the Deep State are well pleased with your opinion. Agreeing with those who are determined to destroy this country and overthrow the government may be a clue that you ought to reconsider.
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