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.
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The editors
Next time the Republicans want to do a filibuster, they should read the names of all 8,000 criminals that had their sentences commuted (released early) today in CA by gov. Newsom. And read along with the names their crimes and the names of their victims and the reason why their sentence was commuted...
Ho, hum. This elections hate-Trump edition.
A couple of haters from the last one in 2015 changed their tunes after the election, when the man the scorned defeated the GOPe-Democrat-Media Establishment.
they scorned = typo
...now do
Clinton too.
humblegunner had probably not been born to be able to go after that one in the 90’s as she sought to draw Freepers away from this roost.
It can be used to free those who were rightly convicted but who were able to arrange substantial payments to the one giving the commutation. Or it can be used to free those who were rightly convicted but who were of the same or similar political persuasions. Or just friends.
You're on a first-name basis with the clown?
Trump practically opened the '16 campaign by declaring, after an insult from Goldberg, "that guy can't even afford a decent pair of pants."
Bull's-eye.
Jonah gave a great speech at the Freeper pizza feast at the AIA building following the March For Justice
You’re welcome to him and everything he says.
You going to lose sleep or cry yourself to sleep because I loved reading him? That’s unhealthy :)
I didn’t know your sensibilities was so delicate :-)
I still read him when it’s not about Trump.
Well, newbie, that was then
His mother was there on both days, was a poster and gave us the name Freepers.
You heard me. Wash his feet yourownself, if that’s what turns you on.
Peak horseshit from NR. Oh how far you have fallen.
Stone did not commit any crime.
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