Roger is different, he is a co conspirator with Trump in a criminal act, he was the go between for illegal Russian information along with Assange. The data came from the Russians to Assange who made it searchable and accessible when posting it online, then to Stone who relayed the info to Trump personally and he also helped to deploy it in the election campaign along with Trump. Trump publicly asked the Russians to hack Clinton's email, this completes the chain of evidence from request to the illegal result and Trumps knowledge of it.
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IS ROGER STONE NEXT TO RIDE THE FOX-TRUMP PARDON EXPRESS?
Trump favorite Tucker Carlson and guests—like Stone’s daughter—have been urging the TV-watcher-in-chief to free the political dirty trickster.
Trump favorite Tucker Carlson and guests—like Stone’s daughter—have been urging the TV-watcher-in-chief to free the political dirty trickster.
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The standing pardon request line at Fox News, the pipeline through which
Donald Trump has
granted clemency to everyone from
war criminals to
racist cops, may be poised for another W. Since the outset of
Roger Stone’s legal troubles, which started with the Mueller probe and culminated in conviction on charges of obstruction, making false statements, and witness tampering, Fox’s
Tucker Carlson has frequently aired segments vouching for Stone’s innocence and
claiming that he’s the target of shadowy, Trump-hating federal law enforcement officials.
Over the past year, a revolving cast of Stone allies has appeared on the network, including his daughter
Adria Stone, who used
her time on Carlson’s show in November to directly address the president: “Donald Trump—if you can hear me, please save our family. He does not deserve this. Nobody deserves this.” Carlson also appeared to cite his sway with Trump: “I honestly do think that after watching a series of people, some of whom are not deserving at all, get pardons from this White House, in effect or literally, you know I think people are going to be watching really carefully to see if your dad is pardoned. I’m going to be, that’s for sure.”
By all accounts, the ploy worked. After Trump tweeted on Tuesday that the Justice Department’s recommended sentence for Stone—seven to nine years—was horrifically unfair, the DOJ rescinded it, causing all four prosecutors on Stone’s case to
withdraw. Sources close to Trump
told the Daily Beast that Carlson seemed to have a direct influence on this chain of events: after watching Carlson’s pro-Stone segments, the president reportedly approached aides and confidants to ask, “What do you think?”—a phrase that a source noted is actually Trump “code for ‘I’m interested or looking into doing’ this.”
But Carlson isn’t content with a reduced sentence. On Tuesday night, he aired a
segment condemning “so many on the left, howling for Roger Stone to die in prison. A 67-year-old man with no criminal record caught up in the Russia hoax, farce, caught up in an investigation that proved to be fruitless...this man needs a pardon.” For Stone, there may still be hope. Mere minutes later, the president posted a tweet ripping U.S. District Judge
Amy Berman Jackson, who Stone once seemingly threatened by
posting a photo of her face under crosshairs, and who will ultimately decide his fate. “Is this the Judge that put
Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure?” Trump wrote. “How did she treat Crooked
Hillary Clinton? Just asking!” The following day, Trump praised Attorney General
William Barr “for taking charge of a case that was totally out of control and perhaps should not have even been brought” and took a shot at the four “rogue prosecutors” in a separate post tagging “@TuckerCarlson.”
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