Trump addressed Roger Stone's prison sentencing today, suggesting the jury was 'tainted.' 'I'm not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed upon a president... I want the process to play out,' he said. 'I'd love to see Roger exonerated'
He was once the subject of an acrimonious departure from the Trump campaign, despised by one of Donald Trump’s closest aides. When he was later convicted of lying to the Congress, obstructing investigators and intimidating a witness, the same person cheered from the sidelines.But now, after Stone received his three-plus year sentence on Thursday, the longtime Trump political whisperer has become a MAGA-world symbol of deep state overreach and judicial corruption.
"But we will watch the process and watch it very closely," he added during a graduation address for incarcerated individuals. "And at some point I will make a determination. But Roger stone and everybody has to be treated fairly." “In the end the only opinion that matters is the president of the United States,” he added. “We feel President Donald Trump understands exactly what has happened here and will show mercy to his old aide Roger Stone.”on seven felony counts, including lying to Congress and stymying House and FBI investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. But ultimately, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson handed down a 40-month sentence.
Barr then went on television to implore the president to stop his public commentary about ongoing cases, saying it was making his job “impossible.” But the president has only barreled forward, defending his right to comment on any legal case and continuing to stump for Stone to get an entirely new trial.
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