I hope we see Flynn and Stone pardoned too.
Good move....
Why is the President pardoning/commuting corrupt Democrats? is he planning some high profile pardons for Stone, Flynn?
Tuns out one of the jury members in the Stone case was a lawyer that did not disclose this information.
“Judge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous & self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, whose also a lawyer, by the way. ‘Madam foreperson, you’re 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 & 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.”
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@Judgenap
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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1229790563668504576
Nice record, reminds me of the NFL vs. NBA list of all the crimes and at the end they say it's not the NBA or NFL, it's Congress.
At least 4 of our corrupt Governors HAVE been prosecuted, convicted and put in prison.
Can Virgina say the same? Other states?
Blagojevich has served almost eight years in prison to date.
Lots of the faux outrage is from the dirty Illinois politicians who played footsie with him until he was arrested.
I’ve always believed that all officials in government from FBI director, to police, to DAs to judges, to elected Senators etc should be held to the highest level of sentence and punishment for corruption etc in their job, and much more than plain old average citizens. But that was before that it was proven that our DOJ and the media are corrupt and thrive on double standards. There is no longer real justice.
Blago is typical Illinois donkey slime, and thoroughly deserved to serve out his full sentence, but I don’t hold his commutation against Trump - I think it’s a mistake, but if so, not that consequential of one. And presumably Trump and his people know more about this situation than me.
But it would be nice to have a full-service clink expressly for the entire Democrat hierarchy in this God-forsaken state - as bad as Blago was (and probably is), he’s nowhere near the worst of the bunch.
Barack Obama cannot be pleased with this news since his presidential transition team was actively negotiating with Blagojevich to appoint Valerie Jarrett to the US Senate seat.
The lawyer who conducted the internal review of the Obama team’s actions was Gregory B. Craig. He effectively whitewashed the entire affair. Years later, Craig was indicted as well in relation to crooked dealing in the Ukraine, but he beat the rap as the statute of limitations had run on some of his crimes.
Blago merely conspired a pay for play unlike Hillary who actually did it countless times and he goes to jail and she doesn’t
Comey taps former US attorney as personal lawyer: report
4/24/2018, 6:00:18 PM · by SpeedyInTexas · 40 replies
The Hill ^ | 4/24/2018 | Avery Anapol
Former FBI Director James Comey has reportedly hired his close friend and former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as one of his personal lawyers.
New revelation helps exonerate Scooter Libby
American Thinker ^ | April 7, 2015 | Clarice Feldman
Posted on 4/7/2015, 7:23:05 AM by Cincinatus’ Wife
In a book just released, The Story: A Reporter’s Journey, Judith Miller, a key witness in the Libby prosecution, states that Patrick Fitzgerald had offered repeatedly to drop all charges against Lewis Libby if he would “deliver” Vice President Cheney to him. In addition, she charges that Fitzgerald manipulated her into incorrectly testifying about a critical conversation she had with Libby and withheld exculpatory evidence from both her and the defense in order to induce her mistaken testimony – testimony the prosecution knew was made because she was acting under a false belief....
This is wrong.
President Donald Trump has commuted the 14-year prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who was convicted of political corruption just months after he appeared on Trump’s reality TV show, “Celebrity Apprentice.”
Perhaps Blago decided it was time to spill his guts and name names?
I am glad. Blago got too much time. Now Trump will need to pardon Stone.
I am very happy. Sentence was way too harsh.
The President did the right thing with Rod Blagojevich. He was a political prisioner.