12 February 2020

Further Fallout

Donald Trump's longtime close friend Roger Stone is due to be sentenced next week by a federal court after having been found guilty of seven counts of witness tampering and lying to investigators about his attempt to obstruct Congress's investigation of the President and also his role in the 2016 campaign.

As is required by court procedures, government prosecutors filed their sentencing recommendation this week and called for Stone to be imprisoned for seven to nine years.

Trump howled with outrage on Twitter about his felonious friend's proposed sentence. Top-level officials at the Justice Department thereafter ordered prosecutors to seek a much lighter sentence. Interference in a prosecution like this is extraordinarily rare and largely prohibited by Justice Department regulations.

In response, all the prosecutors on the case withdrew to protest the political interference (details here). One of them even resigned from the Justice Department in protest.

Per reporting by NBC, the Attorney General is now meddling in all matters that might affect Trump (details here). Did Trump order him to do this?

Hopefully, the House of Representatives will look into this and soon. The Senate, of course, will do nothing. They castrated themselves during the impeachment trial, refusing to confront Trump, and now he's feeling invincible.

Trump is now unrestrained and the cowardly Senate will continue to give him free reign. How many more laws will be broken and crimes committed while they sit on their hands and look the other way?

This can all be fixed in the November election, by tossing Trump out on the street and his Senate majority with him.

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