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During an Oval Office photo-op Wednesday with the President of Ecuador, President Trump addressed the criminal sentencing of his former campaign manager Roger Stone for lying to Congress, saying he doesn't "want to say... yet" whether he would consider pardoning him. Trump said his tweet yesterday saying he thought Stone's sentencing guidelines were too harsh was "not at all" political interference in the Justice Department.
"The fact is Roger Stone was treated horribly...Roger Stone for doing - nobody even knows what he did," Trump said.
"Nine years recommended by four people that -- perhaps they were Mueller people. I don't know who they were -- prosecutors," Trump said about the four DOJ prosecutors who worked on the Roger Stone case and resigned in protest after Trump's comments Tuesday.
Follow up question:"Are you considering a pardon for Roger Stone?"
Trump: "I don't want to say that yet."
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: Okay. Do you have any questions?
QUESTION: On Roger Stone, sir. On Roger Stone.
TRUMP: Yeah.
QUESTION: Isn't your tweet political interference?
TRUMP: No, not at all. He was treated very badly. Nine years recommended by four people that--perhaps they were Mueller people. I don't know who they were--prosecutors. And they--I don't know what happened. They all hit the road pretty quickly. Look, you had somebody just recently. You saw what happened. He got two months. He got sentenced for two months for leaking classified information at the highest level.
QUESTION: Who's that (INAUDIBLE)?
TRUMP: They treated Roger Stone very badly. They treated everybody very badly. And if you look at the Mueller investigation, it was a scam because it was illegally set up. It was set up based on false documentation and false documents. You look at what happened, how many people were hurt. Their lives were destroyed.
And nothing happened with all the people that did it at large scale. Where's Comey? Why--where is Comey? What's happening to McCabe? What's happening to Lisa--and Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. What's happening with them? It was a whole set up. It was a disgrace for our country. And everyone knows it too, everyone, including NBC, which gives a lot of fake news. The fact is that Roger Stone was treated horribly and so were many other people. Their lives were destroyed.
And, it turns out you look at the FISA warrants and what just happened with FISA where they found out it was fixed that it was a dirty, rotten deal. So, when you look at that and you see what happened with Roger Stone. But think of it--a man leaks classified information, highly classified--they give him two months--Roger Stone for doing--nobody even knows what he did. They said he intimated somebody that person said he had no idea he was going to jail for that. That person didn't want to press charges. They put him in for nine years. It's a disgrace and frankly, they ought to apologize to a lot of the people who's lives they've ruined. Next question. Next question. Go ahead.
QUESTION: (INAUDIBLE)
TRUMP: Wait, wait, wait.
QUESTION: Are you considering a pardon for him?
TRUMP: I don't want to say that yet, but I tell you--people were hurt, viciously and badly by these corrupt people. And I want to thank if you look at what happened I want to thank the Justice Department for seeing this--this horrible thing. And, I didn't speak to them by the way, just so you understand. They saw the horribleness of a nine-year sentence for doing nothing. You have murderers and drug addicts that don't get nine years. Nine years for doing something that nobody even can define what I he did. Somebody said he put out a tweet and the tweet they based it on that.
We have killers, we have murderers all over the place nothing happens and then they put a man in jail they destroy his life, his family, his wife, his children. Nine years in jail. It's a disgrace. In the meantime, Comey walks around making book deals--the people that launched the scam investigation and what they did was a disgrace. And hopefully it will be treated fairly everything else will be treated fairly.
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A southeastern New Mexico sheriff is vowing to go to jail and risk his seat rather than enforce a proposed red-flag gun law.
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So now James Comey thinks there's a crisis at the Justice Department.
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The president kept his promise to remember the forgotten, and he’s continued to push ahead with policies to help them and every American.
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Former Memphis City Schools Board President Tomeka Hart revealed Wednesday that she was the foreperson of the jury that convicted former Trump adviser Roger Stone on obstruction charges last year, and soon afterward, a string of her anti-Trump, left-wing social media posts came to light.
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'Moscow Mitch' McConnell accused of filling 'legislative graveyard' with election security measures to prevent repeat of 2016 tampering
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In my prior piece, “Resistance on the Right: Will Conservatives Ever Come Together on an Article V Convention of the States?” I explained that under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, if two-thirds of the states approve resolutions calling on Congress to hold an amendments convention, Congress has no choice but to obey. I then...
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The Democrats are going to get it handed to them in November, and they probably deserve it.
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BOISE — The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has become the first circuit in the nation to order a state to pay for an inmate’s gender confirmation surgery, ruling
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During one of his recent tweets, Chuck Schumer let slip the name of Adam Schiff’s whistleblower and you’ll be surprised.
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Actress Patricia Heaton has denounced the Democratic Party's platform for including what she called a "barbaric" position on abortion.
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If Governor Mitt Romney truly wanted to change the trajectory of the Republican nominating process in 2016, he could’ve done one of two things: endoorsed a candidate, or announced he will run himself. |
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Recently, Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest (R-N.C.) came under fire for comments he made regarding Planned Parenthood and its founder, Margaret Sanger. Speaking to an MLK Day breakfast at Upper Room Church of God in Christ in Raleigh, Forest said this: “There is no doubt that when Planned Parenthood was created, it was created to destroy the entire black race. That was the purpose of Planned Parenthood. That’s the truth.” Forest later defended his comments to McClatchy News: “The facts speak for themselves. Since 1973, 19 million black babies have been aborted, mostly by Planned Parenthood. I care too much about ...
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AOC’s people were said to be unhappy at being called on the carpet and expressed concern over Sanders’s Joe Rogan embrace—but now AOC is back on the stump in New Hampshire.
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We are gonna do this again, aren't we?
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Biden’s decline is not altogether surprising, since his pursuit of the Democratic presidential nomination before he was vice president he never got any traction.
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The number of cases of those infected by the coronavirus in China exploded on Thursday as nearly 15,000 new cases and 242 new deaths from the virus were reported after health officials broadened the types of cases that they includes in their count. The 14,840 new cases in the Hubei province was by far the […]
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On Tuesday night, the New Hampshire Democratic primary shook things up in a big way.Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won the state's primary and solidified...
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RUSH: The party's lost its ability to connect with its own voters.