Jeff Crouere
Feb 16, 2020
This week was dominated by the questions regarding the sentencing of political operative Roger Stone. Last January, he was subjected to a pre-dawn raid by federal officials carrying assault rifles. Somehow, CNN was informed about the raid and their cameras captured the dramatic footage of agents entering his home and arresting Stone. The former advisor to Presidents Nixon, Reagan and Trump was eventually charged and convicted of making false statements, obstruction of an official proceeding and witness tampering.
The foreman of the jury that convicted Stone was Tomeka Hart, who revealed herself this week with public statements about the case. Hart is a former Democratic Party congressional candidate who made online comments that were critical of both Stone and President Donald Trump. She tweeted about Trump with the hashtag “klanpresident,” shouted “shame, shame shame” outside one of his hotels during a protest and referred to Stone and other supporters of the President as “racists and Putin cronies,” according to George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. In his view, there is a “serious question as to whether the conviction itself” of Roger Stone “should be reevaluated.”............To Read More.....
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