Failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave one of her most bizarre interviews to date Monday night, telling MSNBC that President Donald Trump commuted Roger Stone&#8217;s prison sentence to keep the controversial Republican strategist silent about a Trump deal with Russian officials to alter the outcome of the 2016 presidential election.
Speaking to <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/hillary-clinton-trump-commuted-roger-stone-so-stone-would-not-spill-anymore-beans-88028741527">MSNBC anchor Joy Reid</a>, Clinton implied that Trump struck a deal with Stone to end Stone&#8217;s stay in federal prison before it even began in order &#8220;to basically shut up Roger Stone so that Roger Stone would not spill any more beans about what actually happened and what Donald Trump actually knew.&#8221;
&#8220;This is a continuation of the cover-up,&#8221; Clinton said, apparently implying that there is still evidence of collaboration between Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign and transition teams and shady Russian officials who undermined the American electoral process and installed Trump in office.
Despite Clinton&#8217;s belief that the Russians somehow stole the 2016 election, Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded, after a nearly two-year investigation, that there was no evidence of any active collaboration between Trump&#8217;s team and Russian officials, though it does appear that hackers, loosely affiliated with the Russian government, did try to sow discord on social media and some Russian officials may have offered help to the Trump campaign &#8212; requests the Trump campaign apparently ignored.
Stone, like Trump&#8217;s former national security advisor Michael Flynn, was charged with lying under oath to investigating officials (Flynn to the FBI and Stone to Congress). Stone was also convicted on charges of witness tampering. Neither was charged with espionage or active subversion of an election.
Instead, it appears Clinton herself was responsible for her 2016 loss, ignoring key swing states like Wisconsin and Michigan, where internal campaign polling showed decisive Democrat victories, even as evidence pointed to a more questionable electoral result. Ultimately, Clinton lost both states, costing her the Electoral College, though she did win the popular vote.
Clinton seems convinced, however, that Russia not only succeeded in altering the outcome of the 2016 presidential election but that Russian officials are actively looking to undermine the 2020 presidential election as well.
&#8220;It&#8217;s very clear that Russia succeeded,&#8221; Clinton told MSNBC. &#8220;They believe that they were able to influence the minds and even votes of Americans, so why would they stop? They really want to pursue their agenda of dividing us.&#8221;
Not satisfied with propagating conspiracies about election tampering, Clinton also touched on allegations that the Trump administration ignored evidence that Russia offered bounties to members of the Taliban who killed American troops in Afghanistan &#8212; a report the Trump administration, and President Trump himself, has repeatedly denied.
“He still as president of the United States has yet to say anything about bounties on American troops,&#8221; Clinton sniped.
Clinton&#8217;s allegations were met with open mockery from some Republican officials.

Hillary Clinton March 03, 2020

Hillary Clinton Outlines Bizarre Conspiracy Theory About Roger Stone In Interview, Says Russia ‘Succeeded’

Hillary Clinton

Roger Stone

Russia

On Monday, the federal court judge overseeing the case against former Republican campaign advisor, Roger Stone, ordered the Department of Justice to provide details of President Donald Trump&#8217;s decision to commute Stone&#8217;s sentence &#8212; specifically, to clarify whether the commutation applies to Stone&#8217;s full sentence or whether it applies only to potential jail time.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson, the official who sentenced Stone to 40 months in prison followed by two years on &#8220;supervised probation,&#8221; issued the Monday order, requesting that the DOJ provide a full copy of the president&#8217;s commutation order to the U.S. District Court.
Jackson told officials to send the court “a copy of the Executive Order commuting the defendant’s sentence and to address the question of the scope of the commutation, in particular, whether it involves the sentence of incarceration alone or also the period of supervised release,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/judge-orders-government-explain-scope-of-roger-stone-commutation">per Fox News</a>.
&#8220;The filing, signed by Jackson, comes after the White House announced Friday that the president signed an Executive Grant of Clemency commuting what they called the &#8216;unjust sentence&#8217; of Stone, just days before the longtime political operative was slated to report to prison to serve more than three years for charges stemming from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation,&#8221; the outlet reported Monday.
Stone was set to surrender himself at a federal prison on Tuesday to serve time on &#8220;seven counts of obstruction, witness tampering and making false statements to Congress.&#8221;
Stone denies any wrongdoing and the president has long maintained that Stone, with whom he had an arms-length relationship, was the subject of a political witch hunt designed to entrap members of the Trump 2016 campaign and not an aboveboard criminal investigation.
As recently as last month, Trump accused prosecutors of targeting Stone, tweeting that Stone was the “victim of a corrupt and illegal Witch Hunt, one which will go down as the greatest political crime in history. He can sleep well at night!”
Stone, like others, faced criminal charges stemming from a long-term Justice Department inquiry &#8212; and associated Congressional inquiries &#8212; into whether members of the Trump 2016 campaign and, subsequently, the Trump transition team, illegally coordinated with Russian officials to undermine the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, but not directly connected to any actual effort to collaborate with the Russian government.
Although the district court judge&#8217;s decision made headlines Monday, Jackson does not appear to be following in the footsteps of another district court judge, Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is now in a prolonged back and forth with the Justice Department over the Michael Flynn case &#8212; a back-and-forth which was, most recently, in the hands of an appellate court judge who ordered the Flynn case dismissed.
It is unlikely that Stone&#8217;s commutation will be overturned, however, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced over the weekend that she and other House Democrats would seek legislation limiting the president&#8217;s ability to issue pardons and commutations in the future.

Roger Stone Sentencing

REPORT: Judge In Roger Stone Case Orders DOJ To Clarify Elements Of Trump’s Commutation

Donald Trump

After President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of former adviser Roger Stone, Democrats went apoplectic.
On Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said she would support a bill that would limit a president’s pardoning abilities. Stone had been sentenced to three years in prison for witness tampering and lying to Congress. He was also arrested in an infamous early morning bust with multiple armed police raiding the 67-year-old’s home as CNN filmed.
After commuting Stone’s sentence, the White House released <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-commutes-sentence-of-roger-stone">a statement</a> calling the former adviser “a victim of the Russia Hoax.”
“The collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations, conducted at great taxpayer expense, looking for evidence that did not exist. As it became clear that these witch hunts would never bear fruit, the Special Counsel’s Office resorted to process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface. These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice,” the White House statement read.
Pelosi and Democrats, however, want to make sure presidents can’t pardon allies, calling Trump’s actions “an act of staggering corruption.”
&#8220;Congress will take action to prevent this type of brazen wrongdoing. Legislation is needed to ensure that no president can pardon or commute the sentence of an individual who is engaged in a cover-up campaign to shield that President from criminal prosecution,&#8221; Pelosi said, as <a href="https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Pelosi-plans-bill-to-limit-pardons-in-wake-of-15401567.php">reported</a> by The Times-Union.
The outlet noted, however, that such a bill would never become law with a Republican-controlled Senate and White House. “The bill would also likely face legal challenges were it to become law,” the Times-Union reported.
Trump had every right to pardon Stone, even if some don’t like it. Two former prosecutors – Brett L. Tolman and Arthur Rizer – penned <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/roger-stone-romney-trump-brett-tolman-arthur-rizer">an op-ed</a> for Fox News saying Stone was “a relative bit player” sentenced to justify Robert Mueller’s special counsel investigation.
“The Stone prosecution is just the latest example of a well-documented phenomena: the way special prosecutors, desperate to justify their commissions, end up charging marginal players with tangential crimes — often related obstruction of the investigation itself,” the two wrote.
Journalist and author Andrew McCarthy, too, defended Trump’s actions and <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/07/trump-spares-stone-from-imprisonment-sparking-howls-from-amnesiac-democrats/">pointed out</a> multiple pardons from Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama that Democrats defended.
“<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/the-clintons">President Bill Clinton</a> pardoned his own brother for felony distribution of cocaine. And a key witness in the Whitewater scandal for which he and Hillary Clinton were under investigation. And three others convicted in independent counsel Ken Starr’s probe. And Marc Rich, in what was a straight-up political payoff. And his CIA director. And his HUD secretary. And eight people convicted in an investigation of his Agriculture Department,” McCarthy wrote.
“Obama also commuted the sentence of a U.S. soldier who passed top-secret information to WikiLeaks. He pardoned his former Joint Chiefs of Staff vice chairman, who’d been convicted of making false statements about a leak of classified information to The New York Times,” McCarthy added.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi

After Stone Commutation, Pelosi Planning Bill To Limit Presidential Pardons

Nancy Pelosi

After Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) spoke out against President Donald Trump for commuting the sentence of Roger Stone, Trump hit back in a tweet calling them Republicans In Name Only who were unconcerned about the “illegal spying on my campaign.”
“Do RINO’S Pat Toomey &amp; Mitt Romney have any problem with the fact that we caught Obama, Biden, &amp; Company illegally spying on my campaign,” tweeted Trump late Saturday evening. “Do they care if Comey, McCabe, Page &amp; her lover, Peter S, the whole group, ran rampant, wild &amp; unchecked – lying &amp; leaking all the way? NO!”
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Do RINO’S Pat Toomey &amp; Mitt Romney have any problem with the fact that we caught Obama, Biden, &amp; Company illegally spying on my campaign? Do they care if Comey, McCabe, Page &amp; her lover, Peter S, the whole group, ran rampant, wild &amp; unchecked &#8211; lying &amp; leaking all the way? NO!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1282155171909435393?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
Stone, who had his 40-month sentence commuted late Friday evening, was convicted of witness tampering, lying to Congress, and obstructing a congressional investigation, charges stemming from his alleged conduct during the Mueller investigation, as the former special counsel pointed out in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/?arc404=true">Washington Post</a> op-ed, published on Saturday, defending the case against Stone.
In a statement on Friday evening, the Trump administration defended the president’s decision to grant Stone clemency, arguing that he was a casualty in the collusion hoax “that was perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency.”
The White House also noted that Stone has maintained his innocence, was seeking a new trial, and was at risk of health complications should he be sent to prison. (Stone was scheduled to begin his sentence later this month.)
While Democrats have decried Trump&#8217;s decision to grant Stone clemency, Toomey and Romney are the only GOP senators who have made statements against it as of publication.
“While I understand the frustration with the badly flawed Russia-collusion investigation, in my view, commuting Roger Stone’s sentence is a mistake,” said Toomey, reports <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1282048610167934976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1282050457196810240%7Ctwgr%5E&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fmueller-defends-case-against-roger-stone-in-op-ed-after-trump-commutes-stones-sentence">CNN</a> correspondent Manu Raju.
“He was duly convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional investigation conducted by a Republican-led committee,” he said, later adding, “Any objections to Mr. Stone’s conviction and trial should be resolved through the appeals process.”
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unprecedented-historic-corruption-romney-hammers-trump-over-roger-stone-decision">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Romney took to Twitter and called the commutation “unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.”
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Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1281937795616067586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>

President Trump Departs The White House En Route To Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Trump Responds After Two GOP Senators Speak Out Against Roger Stone Commutation

Mitt Romney

Pat Toomey

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller seemingly pushed back against President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the prison sentence of Roger Stone, who was convicted of witness tampering, lying to Congress, and obstructing a Congressional investigation.
While Mueller does not directly address the Trump administration, the former special counsel writes in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/11/mueller-stone-oped/?arc404=true">Washington Post op-ed</a> that he is responding “both to broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper, and to specific claims that Roger Stone was a victim of our office. The Russia investigation was of paramount importance. Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.&#8221;
“We now have a detailed picture of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election,&#8221; writes Mueller later in the op-ed. &#8220;The special counsel’s office identified two principal operations directed at our election: hacking and dumping Clinton campaign emails, and an online social media campaign to disparage the Democratic candidate. We also identified numerous links between the Russian government and Trump campaign personnel — Stone among them.&#8221;
While the former special counsel maintains that the investigation “did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired with the Russian government in its activities,” he notes that his team determined the Trump campaign “expected it would benefit electorally from information stolen and released through Russian efforts.”
In a statement Friday evening, the White House referred to Stone as the victim of a collusion hoax “that was perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency.”
“As it became clear that these witch hunts would never bear fruit, the Special Counsel’s Office resorted to process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface. These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice. This is why the out-of-control Mueller prosecutors, desperate for splashy headlines to compensate for a failed investigation, set their sights on Mr. Stone,” said the Trump administration.
“Because no such evidence exists, however, they could not charge him for any collusion-related crime. Instead, they charged him for his conduct during their investigation,” added the Trump administration on Friday.
In The Washington Post op-ed, Mueller also outlines Stone&#8217;s alleged conduct that led to the charges, in more detail.
“A jury later determined [Stone] lied repeatedly to members of Congress. He lied about the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks. He lied about the existence of written communications with his intermediary. He lied by denying he had communicated with the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases. He in fact updated senior campaign officials repeatedly about WikiLeaks. And he tampered with a witness, imploring him to stonewall Congress,” writes Mueller.
“Russian efforts to interfere in our political system, and the essential question of whether those efforts involved the Trump campaign, required investigation. In that investigation, it was critical for us (and, before us, the FBI) to obtain full and accurate information. Likewise, it was critical for Congress to obtain accurate information from its witnesses. When a subject lies to investigators, it strikes at the core of the government’s efforts to find the truth and hold wrongdoers accountable. It may ultimately impede those efforts,” writes Mueller.
“We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false,” he concluded.
Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) have spoken out against Trump’s decision to issue a commutation to Stone, who was supposed to begin his 40-month prison sentence later this month.
“While I understand the frustration with the badly flawed Russia-collusion investigation, in my view, commuting Roger Stone&#8217;s sentence is a mistake,” said Toomey, reports CNN correspondent Manu Raju.
“He was duly convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional investigation conducted by a Republican-led committee,” he said, later adding, “Any objections to Mr. Stone&#8217;s conviction and trial should be resolved through the appeals process.”
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Toomey: “He was duly convicted of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing a congressional investigation conducted by a Republican-led committee&#8230;. Any objections to Mr. Stone&#8217;s conviction and trial should be resolved through the appeals process.&#8221;
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) <a href="https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1282050457196810240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/unprecedented-historic-corruption-romney-hammers-trump-over-roger-stone-decision">The Daily Wire</a> previously reported, Romney took to Twitter and said the commutation was, by its nature, an abuse of power: “Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.”
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Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1281937795616067586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
The White House, in addition to questioning the nature of the investigation, observed that Stone has maintained his innocence — and “expects to be fully exonerated” in a new trial — and that he would be “put at serious medical risk in prison.”
While the statement maintains that the president does not wish to become involved in Stone’s efforts to receive a fair trial, or to interfere in his chance to “vindicate himself before the courts,” the Trump administration ultimately concludes that the circumstances warrant his commutation.
“At this time, however, and particularly in light of the egregious facts and circumstances surrounding his unfair prosecution, arrest, and trial, the President has determined to commute his sentence. Roger Stone has already suffered greatly,” said the Trump administration. “He was treated very unfairly, as were many others in this case. Roger Stone is now a free man!”
Grant Smith, an attorney for Stone, said that “Mr. Stone is incredibly honored that President Trump used his awesome and unique power under the Constitution of the United States for this act of mercy,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-roger-stone-clemency.html?action=click&amp;module=RelatedLinks&amp;pgtype=Article">The New York Times.</a>

Robert Mueller

Mueller Defends Case Against Roger Stone In Op-ed After Trump Commutes Stone’s Sentence

On Saturday, Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) sent out a tweet condemning President Trump’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-trump-commutes-sentence-of-roger-stone">commutation</a> of Roger Stone’s prison sentence.
“Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president,” Romney wrote.
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Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) <a href="https://twitter.com/MittRomney/status/1281937795616067586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
In November 2019, Stone was “found guilty of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness,” according to a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/roger-stone-found-guilty-obstruction-false-statements-and-witness-tampering">statement</a> from the Department of Justice.
In February, reports <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/20/trump-friend-roger-stone-sentenced-to-prison-for-wikileaks-lies.html">CNBC</a>, Stone was sentenced to “40 months in prison &#8230; two years of supervised release,” and “250 hours of community service.” He was also reportedly sentenced to pay a hefty fine.
However, the White House released a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-executive-grant-clemency-roger-stone-jr/">statement</a> on Friday announcing that President Trump was commuting Stone’s prison sentence only days before he was set to begin serving it.
“Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency. There was never any collusion between the Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia,” the statement reads. “Such collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to accept the result of the 2016 election. The collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations, conducted at great taxpayer expense, looking for evidence that did not exist. As it became clear that these witch hunts would never bear fruit, the Special Counsel’s Office resorted to process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface.”
The statement later claims that because the Mueller team couldn’t find “evidence” of collusion with Russia, they “charged him [Stone] for his conduct during their investigation.”
<blockquote>Mr. Stone was charged by the same prosecutors from the Mueller Investigation tasked with finding evidence of collusion with Russia. Because no such evidence exists, however, they could not charge him for any collusion-related crime. Instead, they charged him for his conduct during their investigation. The simple fact is that if the Special Counsel had not been pursuing an absolutely baseless investigation, Mr. Stone would not be facing time in prison.</blockquote>
“Mr. Stone would be put at serious medical risk in prison. He has appealed his conviction and is seeking a new trial,” the statement adds.
Senator Romney’s tweet has more than 426,000 “likes” and has been retweeted approximately 129,000 times as of publication.
The response to the senator’s condemnation of Trump’s decision has been decidedly mixed.
User @BryanDavis2014 wrote: “Unprecedented. A RINO of RINO’s [sic].”
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Unprecedented. A RINO of RINO’s.
— Bryan K. Davis (@BryanDavis2014) <a href="https://twitter.com/BryanDavis2014/status/1282074016644300800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
“Oh shut up Mitt. You’re so bitter that you’ll never be President,” wrote director/producer Robby Starbuck.
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Oh shut up Mitt. You’re so bitter that you’ll never be President.
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) <a href="https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck/status/1281945143952715777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
Writer Charlotte Clymer was more pointed, demanding further action from Romney: “Talk is cheap, Senator Romney. You have the power to do something about it, so what are you gonna do?”
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Talk is cheap, Senator Romney. You have the power to do something about it, so what are you gonna do?
— Charlotte Clymer (@cmclymer) <a href="https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/1281946022600675328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
“Thank you for your patriotism, Sir,” wrote actress and activist Alyssa Milano.
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Thank you for your patriotism, Sir.
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) <a href="https://twitter.com/Alyssa_Milano/status/1281997884817203200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 11, 2020</a></blockquote>

Romney and Trump

‘Unprecedented, Historic Corruption’: Romney Hammers Trump Over Roger Stone Decision

President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of political operative Roger Stone on Friday just days before the 67-year-old was set to report to prison to serve a 40-month sentence.
Stone was arrested last January in then-special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and was convicted in federal court last November of making false statements and impeding an investigation by Congress.
The White House released a scathing statement blasting the entire investigation by painting it as a politically motivated hit job:
<blockquote>Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the Trump Presidency. There was never any collusion between the Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia. Such collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to accept the result of the 2016 election.
The collusion delusion spawned endless and farcical investigations, conducted at great taxpayer expense, looking for evidence that did not exist. As it became clear that these witch hunts would never bear fruit, the Special Counsel’s Office resorted to process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface. These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice.
This is why the out-of-control Mueller prosecutors, desperate for splashy headlines to compensate for a failed investigation, set their sights on Mr. Stone. Roger Stone is well known for his nearly 50 years of work as a consultant for high-profile Republican politicians, including President Ronald Reagan, Senator Bob Dole, and many others. He is also well known for his outspoken support for President Donald J. Trump and opposition to Hillary Clinton.
Mr. Stone was charged by the same prosecutors from the Mueller Investigation tasked with finding evidence of collusion with Russia. Because no such evidence exists, however, they could not charge him for any collusion-related crime. Instead, they charged him for his conduct during their investigation. The simple fact is that if the Special Counsel had not been pursuing an absolutely baseless investigation, Mr. Stone would not be facing time in prison.</blockquote>
The statement also documented the much-criticized way in which Stone was taken into custody when the FBI conducted a pre-dawn raid on his home and a CNN camera crew was present during the raid.
The White House said that Stone would have been put at serious medical risk in prison, a likely reference to the coronavirus pandemic, which was not explicitly mentioned in the statement. The statement added that Stone has appealed his conviction and believes that he will be &#8220;fully exonerated&#8221; in a new trial.
&#8220;At this time, however, and particularly in light of the egregious facts and circumstances surrounding his unfair prosecution, arrest, and trial, the President has determined to commute his sentence,&#8221; the statement concluded. &#8220;Roger Stone has already suffered greatly. He was treated very unfairly, as were many others in this case. Roger Stone is now a free man!&#8221;

Former Trump Associate Roger Stone Arrested In Charges Related To Mueller Investigation

Trump Commutes Sentence Of Roger Stone

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An email accidentally sent to exactly the &#8220;wrong&#8221; person has prompted a Department of Justice examination of communications from a New York-based doctor who has been reportedly in frequent contact with both the White House and Fox News about a potential treatment for COVID-19.
According to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/vladimir-zev-zelenko-fox-news-trump-hydroxychloroquine-jerome-corsi/2020/04/30/82622456-8af2-11ea-ac8a-fe9b8088e101_story.html">The Washington Post</a>, which first reported on the missent email and consequent DOJ review, right-leaning commentator Jerome Corsi accidentally sent an email intended for Dr. Vladimir &#8220;Zev&#8221; Zelenko to federal prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky, who was a member of Mueller&#8217;s team. Zelensky, who has since been put in charge of investigating coronavirus-related crimes at the Maryland U.S. attorney’s office, responded to the email by requesting all of Corsi&#8217;s communications with Zelenko, a request with which Corsi says he is fully complying.
Under his directive to oversee COVID-related crimes, Zelinsky has already &#8220;charged a medley of fraudsters for peddling fake cures, selling personal protective equipment they didn’t actually have or running more complicated Medicare reimbursement schemes, and officials say tips are coming in droves,&#8221; the Post reports.
Corsi was one of the subjects of Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation, which ultimately found no evidence for the &#8220;Trump-Russia collusion&#8221; conspiracy theory. Corsi refused to plead guilty after Mueller&#8217;s prosecutors attempted to get him to sign a plea agreement saying he had lied in his initial interview about his role in the WikiLeaks email incident. Mueller&#8217;s team ultimately did not charge Corsi with any crime.
Corsi addressed the email mixup in his daily podcast on Thursday after the Post reached out to him about Zelinsky&#8217;s interest in his communications with Zelenko. The Post reports (formatting adjusted):
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During episodes of his daily podcast this week and in a YouTube video he posted late Thursday in response to questions from The Washington Post, Corsi said that Zelinsky responded to the unexpected email by reaching out to Corsi’s lawyer and requesting all of Corsi’s communications with Zelenko. Corsi said he and Zelenko are collaborating on a website designed to connect people with doctors. They have acted lawfully, Corsi added, but he plans to cooperate with the request and has handed over his communications. &#8230;
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In his YouTube video, Corsi displayed the email he inadvertently sent to Zelinsky. In it, he wrote that Zelenko had “an FDA approved randomized test of HCQ underway” — a reference to hydroxychloroquine, the anti-malarial. &#8230;
By Corsi’s account, Zelinsky went to a government website that lists approved clinical trials and found no reference to Zelenko. After learning of the federal prosecutor’s interest, Corsi said he asked Zelenko about whether he had an FDA approved study — as Corsi said Zelenko had told another physician at a training event. Zelenko, Corsi said, then suggested his study was approved instead by an internal hospital panel.
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“I pointed out to Zelenko, ‘But it’s not registered as an FDA test, and you can’t say it is,’ ” Corsi said Thursday on YouTube, adding that he did not feel Zelenko was trying to defraud anyone, but rather did not understand what it meant to have an FDA-approved test.
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While Corsi came out of the &#8220;collusion&#8221; investigation relatively unscathed, his associate Roger Stone ended up getting slapped with over three years in prison after being convicted of lying to Congress, obstruction of an official proceeding and witness tampering — all &#8220;process crimes&#8221; that took place during the investigation rather than any previous crime.
The Post points out that Zelinsky was one of the four federal prosecutors who famously walked off the case after recommending that Stone serve seven to nine years behind bars, a recommendation so “exorbitant and unwarranted” that Attorney General William Barr felt compelled to override it.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-unloads-threatens-lawsuit-as-roger-stone-case-thrown-into-more-chaos">Trump Unloads, Threatens Lawsuit As Roger Stone Case Thrown Into More Chaos</a>
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Ironic Email Mixup Results In DOJ Investigation Into Doctor Who Has Touted Potential COVID Treatment

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President Donald Trump said on Sunday during the White House Coronavirus Task Force news conference that people would soon &#8220;find out&#8221; what he was going to do with General Michael Flynn and Roger Stone, who were convicted in Special Counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s Russia investigation, and that the &#8220;tables are turned&#8221; now against those who launched the investigation.
&#8220;General Flynn was a highly respected person, and it turned out to be a scam on him,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;The FBI said he didn’t lie and Mueller’s people wanted him to go to jail. Okay? So what am I going to do? You’ll find out what I’m going to do. I’m not going to say what I’m going to do, but I will tell you the whole thing turned out to be a scam, and it turned out to be a disgrace to our country, and it was a take-down of a duly elected President.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s comments came as news broke last week that the FBI <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/welcome-to-the-real-russia-scandal/">knew</a> that the anti-Trump dossier that they used to get FISA warrants to surveil the Trump campaign was &#8220;likely corrupted&#8221; by Russian disinformation from Russia&#8217;s Intelligence Service, as reported by National Review.
&#8220;And these people suffered greatly. General Flynn, I mean what they did to him, and even the FBI said, and they had some, and nobody bigger fan of the FBI than me at the level of the people that really matter,&#8221; Trump continued. &#8220;But the top of the FBI was scum, and what they did to General Flynn, and you know it and everybody knows it, was a disgrace. He was in the service for over 30 years. He ends up being a general and respected, respected, and almost his first day in office, they come in with papers. They want to investigate him. Never happened before and now the tables are turned. Investigate the investigators, I guess.&#8221;
&#8220;These were crooked people,&#8221; Trump added. &#8220;These are bad people. These are very dangerous people. You know what they are though? They’re scum. They’re human scum.&#8221;
WATCH:
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>REPORTER: Mr. President, have you thought any more about pardoning Paul Manafort or Roger Stone so they’re not exposed to the coronavirus in jail?
TRUMP: Well, I just tell you this. Roger Stone was treated very unfairly. Paul Manafort, the black book turned out to be a fraud. We learned that out during the various last number of weeks or months. They had a black book that came out of Ukraine, turned out to be a fraud. Turned out to be a fraud. They convicted a man, turned out to be a fraud. General Flynn was a highly respected person and it turned out to be a scam on him. The FBI said he didn’t lie and Mueller’s people wanted him to go to jail. Okay? So what am I going to do? You’ll find out what I’m going to do. I’m not going to say what I’m going to do, but I will tell you the whole thing turned out to be a scam, and it turned out to be a disgrace to our country, and it was a take down of a duly elected President.
And these people suffered greatly. General Flynn, I mean what they did to him, and even the FBI said, and they had some, and nobody bigger fan of the FBI than me at the level of the people that really matter. But the top of the FBI was scum, and what they did to General Flynn, and you know it and everybody knows it, was a disgrace. He was in the service for over 30 years. He ends up being a general and respected, respected, and almost his first day in office, they come in with papers. They want to investigate him. Never happened before and now the tables are turned. Investigate the investigators, I guess. These were crooked people. These are bad people. These are very dangerous people. You know what they are though? They’re scum. They’re human scum.</blockquote>

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Trump On The Russia Investigation: ‘Now The Tables Are Turned’

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President Donald Trump has said he won’t pardon former associate Roger Stone just yet, adding he’ll wait until the legal process is complete to make a decision on the matter.
CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/20/politics/donald-trump-roger-stone-exoneration/index.html">reported</a> that Trump made the statement at a rally in Las Vegas, Nevada.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to do anything in terms of the great powers bestowed upon a president of the United States, I want the process play out, I think that&#8217;s the best thing to do,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Because I&#8217;d love to see Roger exonerated and I&#8217;d love to see it happen because I personally think he was treated very unfairly.&#8221;
Trump suggested he would decide whether to pardon or commute Stone’s sentence once that process was completed.
&#8220;At some point I&#8217;ll make a determination, but Roger Stone and everybody has to be treated fairly. And this has not been a fair process,&#8221; the president said.
As The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-roger-stone-sentenced-to-3-years-for-lying-to-congress">reported</a>, Roger Stone on Thursday was sentenced to 40 months in prison – a little over three years – for lying to congress and obstruction an investigation into whether the 2016 Trump campaign colluded with Russia to steal the election. That investigation determined that no one on the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, said during sentencing that Stone’s crimes “transcend party.”
“The truth still exits. The truth still matters,” Jackson said. “For that reason, the dismay and disgust at the defendant’s belligerence should transcend party.”
More from The Daily Wire:
<blockquote>To reiterate, no one who was anti-Trump and lied to congress has been sentenced. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, and former CIA Director John Brennan have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/will-there-be-consequences-comey-brennan-clapper-ashe-schow">yet to be</a> brought up on lying charges despite evidence that they did. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just had the investigation into his own lying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-justice-department-drops-criminal-investigation-into-fired-fbi-official-andrew-mccabe">dropped</a>.
Prosecutors had asked previously that Stone be sentenced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-recommend-non-violent-criminal-roger-stone-get">up to nine years</a> in prison for his non-violent crimes. The prosecutors wrote that Stone “obstructed Congress’ investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, lied under oath, and tampered with a witness.” Further, when he was indicted, “he displayed contempt for this Court and the rule of law.”</blockquote>
As previously noted, Stone likely displayed contempt “because his house was raided early in the morning to make his arrest more dramatic. CNN was tipped off to the raid and had cameras set up outside so the nation could watch police forcefully arrest a 67-year-old man who had been charged with non-violent crimes.”
The Department of Justice immediately pushed back on the harsh sentencing recommendation, leading the four prosecutors on the case to resign. After the actual sentence was handed down Thursday morning, Trump tweeted out a segment from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program suggesting Trump could pardon Stone.
“President Trump could end this travesty in an instant with a pardon, and there are indications tonight that he will do that,” Carlson said in a segment on his show Wednesday night. Carlson also in that segment called Stone’s prosecution “a shocking insult to the American tradition of equal justice.”

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Trump Says He Won’t Pardon Roger Stone Just Yet

Former Trump associate Roger Stone has become the latest person in President Donald Trump’s orbit to be sentenced for lying to congress, something that has so far not happened to any anti-Trump people who have lied to congress.
Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison on Thursday for lying to congress and obstructing the FBI’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in 2016 to steal the election. Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no evidence that anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, yet Stone was still charged with obstruction.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, who had signaled previously that she may give Stone a harsh sentence, handed down the sentence on Thursday, saying “The court should not just shrug its shoulders and say this is a case of ‘Roger being Roger,’&#8221; <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-trump-roger-stone-prison-20200220-5ius6tlvvncujhtcnrrhve6aoq-story.html">according</a> to The New York Daily news.
Jackson, an Obama appointee, went on to say that Stone’s crimes hurt American democracy and that letting him off easy would damage the rule of law and let partisanship reign supreme.
“The truth still exits. The truth still matters,” Jackson said. “For that reason, the dismay and disgust at the defendant’s belligerence should transcend party.”
To reiterate, no one who was anti-Trump and lied to congress has been sentenced. Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey, and former CIA Director John Brennan have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/will-there-be-consequences-comey-brennan-clapper-ashe-schow">yet to be</a> brought up on lying charges despite evidence that they did. Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe just had the investigation into his own lying <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-justice-department-drops-criminal-investigation-into-fired-fbi-official-andrew-mccabe">dropped</a>.
Prosecutors had asked previously that Stone be sentenced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/prosecutors-recommend-non-violent-criminal-roger-stone-get">up to nine years</a> in prison for his non-violent crimes. The prosecutors wrote that Stone “obstructed Congress’ investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, lied under oath, and tampered with a witness.” Further, when he was indicted, “he displayed contempt for this Court and the rule of law.”
Stone displayed contempt likely because his house was raided early in the morning to make his arrest more dramatic. CNN was tipped off to the raid and had cameras set up outside so the nation could watch police forcefully arrest a 67-year-old man who had been charged with non-violent crimes.
The Department of Justice pushed back on the harsh recommendation, leading to the resignation of all four prosecutors on the case.
On Thursday Morning, Trump tweeted a segment from Tucker Carlson’s Fox News program that suggested the president would pardon Stone.
“President Trump could end this travesty in an instant with a pardon, and there are indications tonight that he will do that,” Carlson said in a segment on his show Wednesday night. Carlson also in that segment called Stone’s prosecution “a shocking insult to the American tradition of equal justice.”
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Just before 2:00 a.m., Trump tweeted out the segment, but said nothing one way or the other about him pardoning Stone.
Other right-leaning commentators have called for Stone to be pardoned, including Fox News senior judicial analyst <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/napolitano-on-roger-stone-case-only-a-pardon-can-fairly-undo-this-mess">Andrew Napolitano</a>. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has also called for Stone to be pardoned.

Roger Stone Sentenced To 3 Years For Lying To Congress, Trump Hints At Pardon

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President Trump issued a series of tweets Tuesday morning making the case for complete dismissal of the entire Roger Stone case — and worked in an all-caps threat about potential lawsuits in the process.
Trump&#8217;s social media posts come amid chaos with the Stone case that started last week when the four federal prosecutors working to get Stone behind bars all walked away from the case after they were strongly rebuked by the Department of Justice for leveling an &#8220;exorbitant and unwarranted&#8221; sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years in prison. The overly punitive sentencing, Stone&#8217;s defenders argue, are particularly egregious because his charges are simply process crimes stemming from an investigation into a Robert Mueller-debunked theory that the Trump campaign was &#8220;colluding&#8221; with Russia.
After the Justice Department-rebuffed prosecutors walked off the case, new revelations about the identity and political affiliations of the jury foreperson has prompted Stone to demand a retrial, a request Judge Amy Berman Jackson, whom Trump has repeatedly criticized, is discussing Tuesday along with the Justice Department&#8217;s revised sentencing recommendations.
Trump began his argument for dismissing the case against his longtime associate by quoting Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano.
&#8220;Judge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous [and] self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, [who&#8217;s] also a lawyer, by the way. ‘Madam foreperson, your a lawyer, you have a duty, an affirmative obligation, to reveal to us when we selected you the existence of these tweets in which you were so harshly negative about the President [and] the people who support him. Don’t you think we wanted to know that before we put you on this jury.’ Pretty obvious he should (get a new trial). I think almost any judge in the Country would order a new trial, I’m not so sure about Judge Jackson, I don’t know,&#8221; Trump wrote in a tweet thread, citing Napolitano and &#8220;Fox and Friends.&#8221;
As reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/roger-stone-juror-justice-department-anti-trump-social-media">Fox News</a> last week, former Memphis City Schools Board President Tomeka Hart revealed Wednesday that she was the foreperson of the jury that convicted Stone last year. Soon after the revelation, &#8220;her history of Democratic activism and a string of her anti-Trump, left-wing social media posts came to light.&#8221; Fox News reports:
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Hart even <a href="https://twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1227819651687690240" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">posted specifically about the Stone case</a> before she was selected to sit on the jury, as she retweeted an argument mocking those who considered Stone&#8217;s <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/25/fbi_arrests_roger_stone_in_pre-dawn_raid_fbi_open_the_door.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">dramatic arrest in a predawn raid</a> by a federal tactical team to be excessive force. She also suggested President Trump and his supporters are racist and praised the investigation conducted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, which ultimately led to Stone&#8217;s prosecution.
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After pushing out the Napolitano quote, Trump unloaded on the whole case, which he argued is based on a fully debunked conspiracy theory.
&#8220;These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller investigation was illegally set up based on a phony and now fully discredited Fake Dossier, lying and forging documents to the FISA Court, and many other things,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out. Even Mueller’s statement to Congress that he did not see me to become the FBI Director (again), has been proven false. The whole deal was a total SCAM.&#8221;
&#8220;If I wasn’t President, I’d be suing everyone all over the place,&#8221; Trump wrote, adding emphatically: &#8220;BUT MAYBE I STILL WILL. WITCH HUNT!&#8221;
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“Judge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous &amp; self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, whose also a lawyer, by the way. ‘Madam foreperson, your a lawyer, you have a duty, an affirmative obligation, to reveal to us when we selected you the&#8230;..
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1229752034460606464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;..would order a new trial, I’m not so sure about Judge Jackson, I don’t know.” <a href="https://twitter.com/Judgenap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Judgenap</a> (Andrew Napolitano) <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@foxandfriends</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1229752040039108608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller investigation was illegally set up based on a phony and now fully discredited Fake Dossier, lying and forging documents to the FISA Court, and many other things. Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is&#8230;
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1229756032693473280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8230;.BUT MAYBE I STILL WILL. WITCH HUNT!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1229756039475683328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 18, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Along with the revelations about Hart&#8217;s identity and biases last week was more information about Judge Jackson&#8217;s handling of other jurors, as summed up by Fox News:
<blockquote>Meanwhile, it <a href="http://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2019/11/05/medical-emergencies-and-milo-yiannopoulos-roger-stones-trial-opens-1226344" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">emerged</a> that U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson had denied a defense request to strike a potential juror who was Obama-era press official with admitted anti-Trump views &#8212; and whose husband <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2019/11/05/medical-emergencies-and-milo-yiannopoulos-roger-stones-trial-opens-1226344" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">worked</a> at the same Justice Department division that <a href="https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2019/11/05/medical-emergencies-and-milo-yiannopoulos-roger-stones-trial-opens-1226344" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">handled the probe</a> leading to Stone&#8217;s arrest. And, another Stone juror, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-was-a-juror-in-roger-stones-trial-we-took-his-rights-seriously/2019/11/22/234d7df0-0d46-11ea-97ac-a7ccc8dd1ebc_story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Seth Cousins</a>, donated to former Democratic presidential candidate Beto O&#8217;Rourke and other progressive causes, <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_name=cousins%2Cseth" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">federal election records</a> reviewed by Fox News show.</blockquote>
As reported by <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/18/politics/roger-stone-hearing/index.html">CNN</a>, Jackson will hear Tuesday from both Stone&#8217;s defense team and the Justice Department. &#8220;Stone is still scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday for seven charges of obstruction, lying to Congress and witness tampering, but has asked for a new trial,&#8221; CNN explains.

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