Roger Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison on Thursday, a punishment that quickly led to speculation that President Donald Trump would give a pardon to his former adviser after publicly weigh…
would give a pardon to his former adviser after publicly weighing in on his prosecution as a “miscarriage of justice.”
Trump’s public statements about the case only added more attention to Stone’s sentencing, drawing coverage across news networks, which were on standby at the federal courthouse in Washington throughout the morning. As media attention focused on whether Barr was doing Trump’s bidding to help out one of the president’s friends, the four prosecutors assigned to the Stone case resigned. Barr later insisted that he had concluded, before Trump’s tweet, that the seven- to nine- year sentence was too harsh.
“This is intolerable to the administration of justice, and the courts should not sit idly by, shrug its shoulders and just say it’s ‘Roger being Roger,” she said, according to CNN.
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