Apparently, no number of dead Americans will shake President Donald Trump from his endless attempt to prove that anyone who dares to investigate him or his associates is a fraud. Late Friday, he flipped out on Twitter over Judge Amy Berman Jackson’s decision not to grant longtime Trump ally Roger Stone a new trial after Stone’s team requested one in light of supposed bias on the part of at least one juror, who happened to express opposition to Trump — not Stone — on social media at one point. Trump, freely meddling in the judicial process in support of his personal political expedience, proclaimed that he thought the whole ordeal was “disgraceful.”
In response to a hardly factual diatribe about Stone’s case from conservative activist and Trump shill Charlie Kirk, Trump had written:
‘This is a disgraceful situation!’
This is a disgraceful situation! https://t.co/s2qZSrGw6U
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 18, 2020
Kirk, meanwhile, had insisted that Stone had faced “a stacked, partisan jury” and “a rigged, unfair sentencing process” and “STILL faces prison time while Comey & Clinton walk free,” and as such, should get a full pardon. Trump seems likely to be considering a pardon for Stone, who was found guilty of all charges against him at his Russia investigation-connected trial on a slew of serious obstruction of justice charges.
BREAKING:
Roger Stone is DENIED a new trial by Obama Judge Amy Berman-Jackson
Despite a stacked, partisan jury
Despite a rigged, unfair sentencing process
He STILL faces prison time while Comey & Clinton walk free
This is a disgrace.
RT for a FULL PARDON of Roger Stone!
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 16, 2020
The contentions from Trump and Kirk and others that Stone faced some kind of unfair conditions are flatly incorrect. Posts expressing opposition to the Trump agenda from one single, solitary juror do not entail that the entire jury was “stacked” and “partisan.” As for the sentencing, Attorney General Bill Barr’s own team intervened to lower the official sentencing recommendation from federal prosecutors — and Kirk really still wants us to think it was “rigged”? It’s Trump’s own team that was behind it!
They’re simply refusing to acknowledge that there could be any legitimacy to their opponents. Instead, they’re launching into conspiracy theories about how the presence of those opponents implies some kind of vast conspiracy against him. But as Judge Jackson put it, in reference to Stone’s request for a new trial:
‘The assumption underlying the motion – that one can infer from the juror’s opinions about the President that she could not fairly consider the evidence against the defendant – is not supported by any facts or data and it is contrary to controlling legal precedent. The motion is a tower of indignation, but at the end of the day, there is little of substance holding it up.’
Check out Twitter’s response below…
