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An Indefensible Commutation
National Review ^ | July 12, 2020 1:32 PM | THE EDITORS for National Review

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 president’s 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 aren’t as sleazy as Stone. We’re a long way from George H. W. Bush’s 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 he’s surrounded himself with his entire adult life.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


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To: AAABEST

National Review is dead, died a few decades ago.


21 posted on 07/13/2020 12:24:02 PM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: conservative98

Another reason to ban National Review posting on FR.


22 posted on 07/13/2020 12:25:37 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: conservative98

Does anyone with a measurable IQ actually subscribe to, not to mention work for, that rag?


23 posted on 07/13/2020 12:33:52 PM PDT by pt17
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

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.


24 posted on 07/13/2020 12:34:01 PM PDT by Bommer (I'm a MAGA-Deplorian! It is the way! It is the only way!)
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To: conservative98

Ah, the National Review just can’t help itself. What did Stone even do, other than not cooperate with a witch hunt?


25 posted on 07/13/2020 12:35:26 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: conservative98

FNR.


26 posted on 07/13/2020 12:42:53 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: conservative98
Where is the BARF ALERT?

NR IS INFESTED WITH NEVER TRUMPERS.

27 posted on 07/13/2020 12:46:14 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: Sam Gamgee
What did Stone even do, other than not cooperate with a witch hunt?

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.

28 posted on 07/13/2020 12:47:08 PM PDT by Magnatron
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To: conservative98

The National Review isn’t what it used to be.


29 posted on 07/13/2020 12:49:09 PM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: conservative98

There’s Another Republican Group Supporting Biden—Except It’s The Same Old Never Trump Names.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3864549/posts


30 posted on 07/13/2020 12:49:24 PM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: AAABEST

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.


31 posted on 07/13/2020 12:49:55 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: conservative98

They pretty much throw their whole argument away in the first few paragraphs, by acknowledgingly this is traditional and lawful.


32 posted on 07/13/2020 1:02:58 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: conservative98

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.


33 posted on 07/13/2020 1:11:33 PM PDT by Montana_Sam (Truth lives.)
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To: conservative98

NR is STILL a piece of €£@$.


34 posted on 07/13/2020 1:14:00 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: conservative98

Never Trumpers never stop


35 posted on 07/13/2020 1:30:29 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Stravinsky

I’m so old that I can remember when national review was a conservative publication.


36 posted on 07/13/2020 1:50:57 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey (There's not a moment to lose.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
I'm going to just be honest and say I couldn't really give a flying s*** less if I ever saw any of them anywhere ever again.

Just tired of and over the metropoloid chatter-class - even the "good" ones.

37 posted on 07/13/2020 1:55:59 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: Quentin Quarantino
National Lampoon, oops, I shoulda said National Review

I would say so! The National Lampoon is a respected publication.

38 posted on 07/13/2020 2:27:54 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Jewbacca

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.”


39 posted on 07/13/2020 2:43:51 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: conservative98

Buckley wept.


40 posted on 07/13/2020 2:46:40 PM PDT by windsorknot
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