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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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1 posted on 07/13/2020 11:51:38 AM PDT by conservative98
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Levin's reponse...

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1. An absurd NR editorial. The entire Mueller investigation was bogus, from his appointment to his outrageous report. Yes, Stone was convicted. Only convicted people receive commutations or pardons.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 13, 2020

2. And the jury foreman was a political hack who should never have sat in that courtroom. The Obama judge has been awful. And not just in Stone’s case. This commutation is defensible. It is merited for the sound reasons the president stated.— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 13, 2020

3. Moreover, compared to the serious criminals and terrorists Obama and Clinton let free, the offenses in Stone’s case are small potatoes. Indeed, they’re rarely even charged. And Stone intends to appeal his conviction. As I said, an absurd NR editorial.https://t.co/9Lp3uSIwFU— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) July 13, 2020


2 posted on 07/13/2020 11:51:53 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: Rich Lowry

You are fake news.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3864550/posts?page=2#2


3 posted on 07/13/2020 11:54:39 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Unmitigated, Pinko Bull$hit.


4 posted on 07/13/2020 11:55:24 AM PDT by GoldenPup
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To: conservative98

Typical tripe and spoiled haggis from National Lampoon, oops, I shoulda said National Review.

That rag is a remedy for the Great Toilet Paper shortage of 2020.

I let them go when Buckley died.


5 posted on 07/13/2020 11:55:57 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: GoldenPup

whats indefensible is obama’s pardons of actual literal murdering terrorists his last week in office.


6 posted on 07/13/2020 11:56:26 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: conservative98

The National Review is now Never Trump traitors. William Buckley would be rolling in his grave. Except for VDH. That man is a hero.


7 posted on 07/13/2020 11:56:43 AM PDT by Saint Athanasius ("I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: conservative98
"...although usually the associates aren’t as sleazy as Stone."

Nor are they as sleazy as Kevin D Williamson, Jay Nordlinger, or Rich Lowry….

8 posted on 07/13/2020 11:57:06 AM PDT by Psalm 73
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To: conservative98

I dropped my subscription, years ago, when the editors were gushing over Pierre Delicto, er, I mean “Myth Romney”.


9 posted on 07/13/2020 11:58:48 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: conservative98

If commutation can’t be used to right an obvious political prosecution, of what use is it?


10 posted on 07/13/2020 11:59:35 AM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: Quentin Quarantino

“That rag is a remedy for the Great Toilet Paper shortage of 2020.”

No, due to pre-saturation with B.S., it lacks the absorbancy needed for toilet paper.


11 posted on 07/13/2020 12:00:09 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: conservative98

Same people who published the infamous “Against Trump” issue.
A few of those people did successfully remedy their rectal-cranial inversions.


12 posted on 07/13/2020 12:01:46 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

Why don’t the just call themselves The New Republic now - they have the same initials so they wouldn’t have to change the letterheads or anything...


13 posted on 07/13/2020 12:02:22 PM PDT by decal (I'm not rude, I don't suffer fools is all.)
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To: Quentin Quarantino

lol

I loved Jonah for decades.

What a shame.


14 posted on 07/13/2020 12:04:01 PM PDT by dp0622 (Trump!!)
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To: conservative98

Andrew Kavlan at the Daily Wire summed it up best: “Roger Stone won’t go to prison for covering up a crime that never happened during an investigation that never should have begun.”


15 posted on 07/13/2020 12:05:57 PM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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To: dp0622

Same here. Such a shame,indeed.

NR went the way USNew&WR ... leftward. Let them go in late 80s, I think it was, could see the liberal snark and rot creeping in.


16 posted on 07/13/2020 12:07:23 PM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: conservative98

Clinton’s pardon of Susan Rosenberg, Weather Underground bomber and now on BLM fundraising arm, Now THAT that is something worthy of embarrassment and regret. Who would post this stupid article?


17 posted on 07/13/2020 12:08:46 PM PDT by boxlunch (The US Pravda ( MSM), Demcheviks, leftists, Chicomms, Soros. All in this together.)
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To: conservative98

How many times did NR condemn 0bama for commuting the sentences of 1,927 people? Was there even one time?


18 posted on 07/13/2020 12:09:59 PM PDT by euram
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To: dp0622

His mother, she was a kick.


19 posted on 07/13/2020 12:10:55 PM PDT by webheart (Coronavirus, I give up. Come get me.)
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To: conservative98
Or... "why nobody reads our fkn rag anymore."


20 posted on 07/13/2020 12:21:49 PM PDT by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political/military industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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