"the most significant evidence of corruption at DoJ since Watergate" !!!!!!!!!!!

[Grasswire2]

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Mike 03]

1. Here we go.

This is apparently the opening statement of Aaron Zelinsky.

Tomorrow is going to be

"What I heard – repeatedly – was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the President."

[Grasswire2]

2. televised? nt

[Leghorn21]

3. Yes, G, tomorrow at 12pmET - definitely Cspan, but surely MSNBC and/or CNN will carry it

BOOM, MUTHAFUKKAHS

[Captain Zero]

4. Was someone threatened in a phone call?

By whom?
Is it recorded?

[Leghorn21]

5. Oh my, I don't have any idea, Captain

Is that inferred in his statement? Sorry, I just glanced at it and immediately started sending it to all my friends and loved ones!!

[Nevilledog]

6. Stone threatened Credico.

Don't know if it was text or phone call. For some reason I think text.

[Marcuse]

7. And his little dog too.

[Nevilledog]

8. *snort*

[leftieNanner]

10. Funny

But only because I said it with my WW of the W voice!

[Delmette2.0]

9. Thanks for the reminder!

I had the House Judiciary Committee on my calender but no other details.

[Leghorn21]

11. Hey Del, I only got clear on the details this morning - I didn't even know if it was an open

hearing —- whoo hoo, get yourself good nights’s rest!!!!

[Delmette2.0]

13. I'll sleep good tonight.

By 10 MDT I'll be in the kitchen making doughnits with the laptop charged and running.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

12. "AG afraid of the president"! If Barr were smart, he'd become a whistle-blower himself. . . . nt

[erronis]

15. Can't do. barr answers to a higher power. opus-dei and lots of $$$$s

barr is hoping for a nice spot on a big island off the coast of Australia. Lots of wealthy survival types will sequester there for a few centuries until the other land-masses are ripe for re-destruction.

[Caliman73]

17. Not likely. Barr is obsessed.

Barr has been pedaling the concept of the Unitary Executive since the late 80's. at least. Him, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and a few others were around during Nixon's administration, then hopped around from Ford to Reagan, to Poppy Bush and Jr. pedaling that bullshit. Barr was the focal point (As Attorney General) during Poppy Bush's term and coordinated the last parts of the cover up of Iran-Contra.

He won't back down until we have a king-like executive in this country. He likely sees Trump as his last grasp at the ring, so he will not turn whistleblower.

Barr truly believes that the administration should answer to NO ONE, not the Congress, nor the Courts. It really is a weird and blinkered view of the Constitution.

[EleanorR]

19. U.S. Attorney was afraid, not AG

Barr is all in corrupt and acting in the interests of trump.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. So it is. Was it fear of losing job or was it fear of worse? I wonder. . . . nt

[robertpaulsen]

24. I believe that quote is a reference to Timothy Shea. Hope he testifies too.

"In the many cases I have been privileged to work on in my career, I have never seen political influence play any role in prosecutorial decision making. With one exception: United States v. Roger Stone."

"What I saw was the Department of Justice exerting significant pressure on the line prosecutors in the case to obscure the correct sentencing guidelines calculation to which Roger Stone was subject — and to water down and in some cases outright distort the events that transpired in his trial and the criminal conduct that gave rise to his conviction."

"What I heard — repeatedly — was that Roger Stone was being treated differently from any other defendant because of his relationship to the president. I was told that the Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, Timothy Shea, was receiving heavy pressure from the highest levels of the Department of Justice to cut Stone a break, and that the U.S. Attorney’s sentencing instructions to us were based on political considerations."

"I was explicitly told that the motivation for changing the sentencing memo was political, and because the U.S. Attorney was 'afraid of the President.'"

(emphasis added)

more...

https://www.axios.com/roger-stone-prosecutor-testimony-doj-intervened-023ae7b0-8283-474d-b0d7-c643d1fd3af6.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics

[erronis]

14. Anybody who cares about the Robert Stone / trump saga needs to read Marcy Wheeler's blog

The most recent:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2020/06/23/even-the-first-roger-stone-sentencing-memo-was-politicized/

She (and many others) have been analyzing the rat-fucker and his various defenses for at least a couple of years.

Of course, there are many other interesting stories about Barr, Mueller, Rosenstein, Epstein, etc. And the grandest dolt of them all.

[SergeStorms]

23. Roger Stone, not Robert.

You might want to change that. You're like me, I get typing so fast my mind can't keep up with my fingers and everyhiknbg gets a;ll messid up.

[vsrazdem]

16. Good entertainment, but unfortunately, it doesn't really matter does it. What is anybody going

to do about it; nothing.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

20. Oh don't be a Debbie Downer. Chip, Chop, Chip away at the Bunker Boy/Barr cabal. nt

[csziggy]

18. Direct link to PDF of Aaron Zelinsky's Statement for the Record

STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD
Assistant United States Attorney Aaron S. J. Zelinsky
House Judiciary Committee
June 24, 2020
https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/zelinsky_opening_statement_hjc.pdf?utm_campaign=4024-519

[sop]

22. Apparently, constitutional checks and balances only function if leaders experience shame.

If, like Trump and Barr, they have absolutely none, lawlessness rules of the day. I guess the drafters of the Constitution should have forseen this.

[calimary]

25. Sheeh...