Posted on 07/13/2020 11:51:38 AM PDT by conservative98
President Trump has commuted the sentence of Roger Stone. The timing, late on Friday, suggests internal embarrassment over the move, and we wish there were more.
The commutation is a move fully within the presidents powers and in keeping with the long-established pattern of presidents pardoning or commuting the sentences of associates caught up in special-counsel probes, although usually the associates arent as sleazy as Stone. Were a long way from George H. W. Bushs pardoning Cap Weinberger, the great Reagan-era defense official, who had been indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice in the Lawrence Walsh investigation.
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It is another indication of his perverse, highly personalized view of the criminal-justice system and another reminder of the loathsome characters hes surrounded himself with his entire adult life.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
National Review is dead, died a few decades ago.
Another reason to ban National Review posting on FR.
Does anyone with a measurable IQ actually subscribe to, not to mention work for, that rag?
Dont get woke!. We need to know the enemy....just not sponsor it. Cancel all subscriptions to anything in print that doesnt involve the bible, woodworking, guns, or cars. The rest crap to train puppies on.
Ah, the National Review just can’t help itself. What did Stone even do, other than not cooperate with a witch hunt?
FNR.
NR IS INFESTED WITH NEVER TRUMPERS.
He lied to Congress...
Like Andrew McCabe
Like John Brennan
Like James Comey
Like Peter Strzok
Like James Clapper
Like...
Like...
Like...
...all the others who had their homes beat in by 40 FBI agents and hauled out in the dead of morning.
The National Review isn’t what it used to be.
Theres Another Republican Group Supporting BidenExcept Its The Same Old Never Trump Names.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3864549/posts
To one degree or another Katie Pavlich, Glenn Beck, Brent Bozell and Thomas Sowell have changed their minds.
The rest are still navel gazing from the inside.
They pretty much throw their whole argument away in the first few paragraphs, by acknowledgingly this is traditional and lawful.
Another reason, if one was needed, to steer clear of the bogus editors of NR. Frauds. There are occasional excellent contributions, but by-and-large they are a dead horse in my book.
NR is STILL a piece of £@$.
Never Trumpers never stop
Im so old that I can remember when national review was a conservative publication.
Just tired of and over the metropoloid chatter-class - even the "good" ones.
I would say so! The National Lampoon is a respected publication.
He got the strange handle, “Pierre Delicto” from the lustful Frenchman, “Filthy Pierre”, and his “Freudian gilt” of being caught in the act, “In flagrante delicto.”
Buckley wept.
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