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(6,798 posts)Stone is playing you for the sucker he thinks you are. Are you?
defacto7
(13,485 posts)lame54
(35,292 posts)Repugs are often given more leeway because they cry the loudest when they are made to follow the rules
defacto7
(13,485 posts)He wants to trip her up so she would have to recuse herself. She's making sure that doesn't happen and his lawers are watching her very carefully. In a way it's like she's on trial too.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Never forget that civil rights are rights to protect people you don't like, because there are people who don't like you that you need protection from. Goes both ways.
Hence hard for a judge to make a move without a hearing to protect the innocent-until-proven-guilty rights.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Now or later , but he's setting himself up for some hard time for a long while acting like he's acting. He should have watched closer what happened to Manafort before he did any of this. Others attempting to try and lie their way out of this should think long and hard how much time do they want to serve in prison before they commit to lying. There is no hope for the trumps to tell the truth on anything ,and their fate will be really , really bad.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)her act of some leniency as a weakness to be exploited.
happybird
(4,608 posts)giving him enough rope to hang himself. We all knew he would, it was only a matter of how quickly he would violate the gag order.
Now, she can drop the hammer without Stone's buddies crying about how "unfair" it is.
(well, they'll probably still cry, but no one will listen)
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)lastlib
(23,239 posts)He doesn't deserve one, of course, but he still has to get something like one. If she gets too harsh on him early on, he could scream bias, etc.)
defacto7
(13,485 posts)to step over a certain line they win. She's making sure the legal ropes are tight.
safeinOhio
(32,687 posts)there are still more nails for the coffin.
RKP5637
(67,109 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He thinks he's teflon. I think he's in for a rude awakening.
mountain grammy
(26,622 posts)djacq
(1,634 posts)I'm getting tired of this dancing around BS.... They all should be locked up.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)FakeNoose
(32,641 posts)It says the book was originally published in 2016 under a different title. OK I'm not a lawyer but it seems that the judge or the DA could stop this if they wanted to.
triron
(22,006 posts)This book's publishing was hidden from the judge on purpose.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)and then there will be judgements and appeals and all that crap will be procedural and sorted out before a trial can even begins. You get all the justice you can afford. I wonder how much Stone and however many friends he has can afford or will spend.
Wait til what Roger Stone will hear from Trumps mouth about him when the time comes. Stone will be going to jail. Lying under oath is a serious business. Even Nixon felt Stone was just the GOP version of Dick Tuck. Only Trump used him seriously - as a telephone to wikileaks. What kind of prisons are these guys going to: Lewisburg or Club Fed?
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Rarely the two combine.
calimary
(81,299 posts)Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 2, 2019, 03:39 PM - Edit history (1)
Otherwise the SOB will go on a book signing tour.