/mlpol/ - Roger Stone is sentenced to THREE YEARS and four months in prison

>oger Stone is sentenced to THREE YEARS and four months in prison as judge rebukes Donald Trump trying to interfere in the case - and says dirty trickster was guilty of 'covering up for the president' NOT being pursued by 'anti-Trump cabal'

>Roger Stone swerved a federal prison cell Thursday despite a judge slapping the longtime Donald Trump ally with a 40-month sentence for lying to Congress - and savaging not just him but the president.

>But she turned his sentencing hearing into a stunning rebuke not just of Stone but of the president himself, saying the prosecution was not brought by 'political enemies,' and that there was no 'anti-Trump cabal' at the hear of the case.
>'He was not prosecuted, as some have complained, for standing up for the president, he was prosecuted for covering up for the president,' she said.
>Trump himself tweeted in rage against the prosecution accusing it of lacking 'FAIRNESS' as the hearing was under way in federal court in Washington D.C.
>'"They say Roger Stone lied to Congress." OH, I see, but so did Comey (and he also leaked classified information, for which almost everyone, other than Crooked Hillary Clinton, goes to jail for a long time), and so did Andy McCabe, who also lied to the FBI! FAIRNESS?' the president tweeted.

>It was unknown whether Berman Jackson - an Obama-appointee - was aware of his latest intervention but it came amid a case roiled by politics and mounting speculation Stone will be pardoned.
>Even before she spoke, prosecutors staged their own revolt against the president calling the case 'righteous' and demanding a lengthy prison sentence despite their initial call for nine years being over-ruled by Attorney General Bill Barr in one of the main acts of an unfolding constitutional crisis.

>She had savaged him in his sentencing remarks - and rebuked the president himself, possibly for his tweet this morning which was during the first part of her hearing.
>'This case did not arise because Roger Stone was being prosecuted by his political enemies,' Berman Jackson said.
>She said Stone told 'flat out lies,' and that his conviction had nothing to do with whether Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

>Stone was also guilty of withholding texts and emails from Congress, prompting Berman Jackson to again lash out at the president.
>Stone refused to hand them over 'not to some secret anti Trump cabal, but to Congress, to the elected representatives of both parties.'
>And she pointed out that it was a Republican-led inquiry which he had initially defied.
>Then she laced into the president, without naming him, saying it was right for sentencing to be done by a judge, 'Not someone who has a longstanding friendship with the defendant, not someone whose political career was aided by the defendant.'

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