Sunday, July 12, 2020
Jeff Mason on Trump commuting Stone's sentence: 'Bringing this up again may in some ways be positive' for POTUS
https://www.foxnews.com/media/jeff-mason-donald-trump-commuting-roger-stone-sentence
Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason reacted Saturday to President Trump commuting Roger Stone's sentence, saying there will more more "fireworks" regarding the president's actions.
"This
is his Broadway, really, right now of responding to what he thinks was
unfair the entire time related to Robert Mueller's investigation of the
Russia probe and specifically to his friend and confident Roger Stone,"
Mason said on "America's News HQ."
"I
think it is important to remember that Stone was convicted by a jury,
and so in terms of the political risk for the president, this does come
at a time when the president himself has been focusing on a law and
order response to the protests around the country, emphasizing himself
as a law and order president."
Mueller defends Stone prosecution and says 'his conviction stands' in Washington Post op-ed
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/robert-mueller-defends-roger-stone-prosecution/index.html
Former special counsel Robert Mueller, in a very rare move, has written an op-ed for The Washington Post
defending his office's prosecution of Roger Stone and saying he is
still a convicted felon and "rightly so" in light of President Donald
Trump's commutation of Stone.
"Congress
also investigated and sought information from Stone. A jury later
determined he lied repeatedly to members of Congress. He lied about the
identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks. He lied about the existence
of written communications with his intermediary. He lied by denying he
had communicated with the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks'
releases. He in fact updated senior campaign officials repeatedly about
WikiLeaks. And he tampered with a witness, imploring him to stonewall
Congress," Mueller wrote in the op-ed posted Saturday evening.
Saturday, July 11, 2020
Tucker Carlson's top writer resigns after secretly posting racist and sexist remarks in online forum
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/10/media/tucker-carlson-writer-blake-neff/index.html
Neff worked at Fox News for nearly four years and was Carlson's top writer. Previously, he was a reporter at The Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet that Carlson co-founded. In a recent article in the Dartmouth Alumni Magazine, Neff said, "Anything [Carlson is] reading off the teleprompter, the first draft was written by me." He also acknowledged the show's influence, telling the magazine, "We're very aware that we do have that power to sway the conversation, so we try to use it responsibly."
During the years that Neff wrote for him at Fox, Carlson has hosted one of the most influential shows on cable news. In the last quarter, Carlson had not only the highest-rated program in cable news, but the highest-rated show in the history of cable news. Carlson also counts President Trump among his most loyal viewers. On multiple occasions, the President has tweeted out videos of Carlson's program. Which is to say, the scripts that Neff likely helped write and shape were being shared by the President of the United States.
House Democrats promise investigations, legislation after Trump commutes Roger Stone
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-democrats-investigations-legislation-trump-commutes-stone
House Democrats reacted furiously to President Trump’s Friday move to commute the prison sentence of political operative Roger Stone -- demanding an investigation and even legislation to stop similar commutations happening again.
“President
Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of top campaign advisor Roger
Stone, who could directly implicate him in criminal misconduct, is an
act of staggering corruption,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
said in a statement on Saturday.
The White House announced Friday
that Trump has signed an Executive Grant of Clemency for the colorful
political operative, who was sentenced to more than three years in
prison after he was convicted last year on seven counts of obstruction,
witness tampering and making false statements to Congress in relation to
FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
“Roger Stone is a victim of the Russia Hoax that the Left and its
allies in the media perpetuated for years in an attempt to undermine the
Trump Presidency,” White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said in
a statement Friday night. “There was never any collusion between the
Trump Campaign, or the Trump Administration, with Russia. Such
collusion was never anything other than a fantasy of partisans unable to
accept the result of the 2016 election.”
Trump commutes Roger Stone's sentence
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/trump-stone-prison-clemency/index.html
President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the prison sentence of his longtime friend Roger Stone,
who was convicted of crimes that included lying to Congress in part,
prosecutors said, to protect the President. The announcement came just
days before Stone was set to report to a federal prison in Georgia.
Trump's decision to commute
the sentence of his friend and political adviser is the crescendo of a
months-long effort to rewrite the history of the Mueller investigation.
This has included selective declassification of intelligence materials, a
ramped-up counter-investigation into the origins of the Russia probe
and attempts to drop the case against Michael Flynn. The President has
broad constitutional power to pardon or commute sentences. But Trump is
unlike almost any other president in how he's used the power proactively
to save political allies.
Friday, July 10, 2020
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