Lindsey Graham says Stone sentencing recommendation "doesn't have anything to do" with Trump

[spanone]

Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham told reporters that the Department of Justice's change in sentencing recommendation is not about President Trump or his tweets. He also said he was briefed about it this morning by the DOJ.

“Should the President stay out of cases? Yeah, absolutely,” Graham told reporters on his way to votes this morning

“If I thought he’d done something that’d change the outcome inappropriately, I’d be the first to say. Apparently in this case…. It makes sense," he added.

On Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris’ call for Attorney General William Barr to testify, Graham said Barr will come before Judiciary committee “sooner rather than later” on oversight. He suggested Harris or others can ask questions about the Stone sentencing then.

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-justice-department-roger-stone-02-12-20/h_1bbdd796d1d98cee112388eb96f159e9

[Roland99]

1. Good grief

[spanone]

2. trump could shoot the Pope on Fifth Ave. & republicans wouldn't blink.

[The_Counsel]

5. Maybe He Should Just Shoot Lindsay?

Or better yet, have them duel at paces in a Jersey woods?

Everything in Jersey is legal. right....?

[BlueJac]

3. LMAO

Lindsey is a joke!

[NewJeffCT]

4. and having your head up your ass

is not the reason you smell like shit Sen. Graham

[Wellstone ruled]

6. So Kamala has Leningrad Lindsey's

attention and is about to stick it to him. Harris's credibility with the press is much greater than Graham's. Lindsey throws hand grenades,Kamala gives complete sentences and facts.

[rockfordfile]

7. How would that un-American Leningrad lindsey know?

[gratuitous]

8. What makes sense, Senator?

Roger Stone had a fair trial in open court, access to legal counsel (certainly better than is often afforded indigent defendants in South Carolina), and was convicted beyond a reasonable doubt. During the course of his trial, Stone posted photos online of the judge in his case with an overlay of cross-hairs. He also made enough disparaging public statements that the judge finally had to order him to shut up. What about the change in DOJ's sentencing recommendation makes sense to you?

Also, you seem pretty sure that the President didn't meddle in this abrupt change or that the change wasn't inappropriate. What's your evidence for that, Senator?

[SamKnause]

9. Lindsey is a known liar.

Why does anyone listen to what he has to say ???

He is so far up Trump's ass he hasn't seen the sun for 3 years.

They are all lying scum.

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Let's ask the four prosecutors, who resigned, why the recommendation was changed.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. There are relatively few coincidences in life

What happened yesterday was NOT one of them. And 4 prosecutors didn't quit because he "had nothing to do it." Gah. The obliviousness of these people!

[Faux pas]

12. Yeah sure ya betcha...

and lenningrad lindsey isn't in the closet.

[coti]

13. Wow. You're right, Lenny. The sentencing SHOULDN'T have anything to do with Trump,

yet Trump is involving himself in it anyway.

[PA Democrat]

14. Lindsey, Lindsey, Lindsey

Just how far would you stoop to protect the man you once described as a “race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot” and a "kook"?

[malaise]

15. Really now

That is absolute bullshit on steroids

[ooky]

16. Right. And the sun has nothing to do with

heat.

[no_hypocrisy]

17. Gaslight

[Mike 03]

18. Stone LIED to PROTECT TRUMP, Lindsey!

It has EVERYTHING to do with Trump.