Trump has commuted Roger Stone's sentence.

[Drunken Irishman]

Link to tweet

EDIT: Yet to see it being reported anywhere else, however.

[Nevilledog]

1. There's gonna be a revolt at the DOJ.

Barr warned him.

[still_one]

42. Doubtful, and those that will just be replaced by trump brown shirts

[Nevilledog]

47. It'll be interesting to see what an overruled Barr does.

He's just as petty and vindictive as trump.

[liberalla]

60. Yes it will!

These two are a pair and deserve each other.

[SoonerPride]

2. But of course he did

Crime gang

[soothsayer]

3. Because of course he did

... to stop him talking, as another thread pointed out.

[KPN]

65. Stone himself made that exact point months ago. For tRump, Stone was a dangerous loose end

needing to be tidy'd up.

[MontanaMama]

4. Of course he did.

[gratuitous]

5. Law and order, baby!

Stone walks and Vindman is cashiered.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Of course he did.

That way Stone doesn't have to admit guilt and still doesn't have to serve his prison sentence. It's like what Bush II did for Scooter Libby.

[underpants]

15. That's it.

Favors. Cover.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. It's *a whole lot* like the Scooter Libby situation, if it's actually happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby Also, Trump has pardoned Libby altogether.

[underpants]

34. I didn't know Trump pardoned Scooter

Or I’d forgotten it

[wnylib]

61. It happened. NPR has been reporting

it in their hourly news for a couple hours now.

Not the least bit surprised. Disappointed, disgusted, but not surprised.

[cayugafalls]

7. Criminals got to be criminal. Sure he has the power, but this is just abuse.

Hope he falls hard for this, at some point the teflon has to be scratched off and shit has to start sticking.

[coti]

8. Pure corruption.

Not even bothering to come up with a pretext.

[KPN]

66. Enabled by the GOP. They are all complicit in selling out our country and ALL of us in it --

including the mindless MAGAts who one day will wake up in shock to oppressive bed they made for themselves -- but far too late. Only we can save them, this November, but they will nevertheless fight us every step of the way to defend their delusions.

[panader0]

9. You just can't get much more in-your-face corrupt.

Wait, I shouldn't say that.

[Nevilledog]

13. Yeah.... Don't challenge the universe!

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. You do the crime, you do the time...

Unless you happen to be close to Trump for which the crime is being done for.

Dems are going to run with this on the CORRUPTION point.

[Dem2theMax]

11. I have officially run out of words.

[blogslut]

12. Do we trust John Cardillo?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

16. Never heard of this right wing scumbag before. Doesn't mean what he's saying

is not true. I have no idea. But from what I just saw in his profile. He seems pretty gross.

[blogslut]

18. So far, dude is the only one saying the sentence was commuted

Since they all lie, I'll wait for legit confirmation.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. His implication is he's talked to Stone about it

His next tweet was "En route to #RogerStone’s house for celebratory drinks".

[blogslut]

32. I know I read his tweets

But they lie all the time

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

35. Eeeexactly. nt

[jls4561]

17. He works for Newsmax.

I'll wait for a confirmation from a legit news source.

[Eliot Rosewater]

14. If a dem did this, mass shootings in the streets.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. I don't even care about Trump's stupid friends anymore.

Not that he even has any real friends.

They have broken so many laws that one more doesn't even matter to me.

[KPN]

67. It seems it doesn't matter to the media either. Maybe a 20 second piece on CBS Evening news.

Are we this fucking acclimated?

[leftyladyfrommo]

72. I am just exhausted with it all.

I nevrr really followed Stone. He is such a wierdo.

[shanti]

20. He was never going to

serve a day in jail.

[SoCalNative]

21. It would be delicious

if Stone flipped on him anyway

[onetexan]

22. Next, the Idiot be adding the scumbag to his administration as a senior advisor

[WVreaper]

23. Fan. Shit.

Combine the two.

[JDC]

25. On a Friday night...

[SheltieLover]

27. I sure hope state charges are ready ti go!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

33. Are there any?

[SheltieLover]

37. Not sure

Keeping fingers crossed! 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[Cirque du So-What]

28. RW douchebag is chumming the waters

looking for signs of unrestrained outrage.

[smirkymonkey]

29. Couldn't deal with the comments on Twitter.

They made me sick. It's really hard to believe that there are so many stupid, evil, corrupt people in this country.

They don't give a damn about justice. It's all about pissing off the Liberals for them, even if they screw themselves over in the process.

[KPN]

68. And they don't even know what being liberal means. If they did,

and they cared about themselves and their familoes, they'd be with not against us.

[smirkymonkey]

70. No, they don't. They have just been indoctrinated to hate us without really knowing

what we stand for. Most of them don't realize that we are fighting for the things that will make their lives better in the long run.

But, you know, they can't seem to get over the things that aren't really any of their business and don't affect them negatively at all such as rights for minorities, gay people, women, and immigrants. The right to choose and the right to marry who you love. The right to hold on to social security and medicare, to clean air and water, to freedom of assembly and speech, etc.

They just have to hate us because they hate their lives and they are so miserable and bitter about everything and they are too afraid to blame the rich and powerful, so they punch down thinking it will make them feel better. But it gets them nowhere and they get more frustrated and angry and they don't even know why.

[KPN]

71. So they buy guns and raise flags saying "Don't tread on me!"

[ProfessorGAC]

30. Owning The Libs?

It is Newsmax.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Appeals court just denied Stone's motion to delay the start of his sentence.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/506848-appeals-court-denies-stones-motion-to-delay-prison-sentence

Can't find any other news about a commutation yet.

[sop]

36. "The president may not use the pardon power to place himself above the law" (Project Democracy)

That's exactly what Trump is doing. Trump is commuting Roger Stone's sentence to impede an investigation into himself, and influence or tamper with a witness’s testimony. This is obstruction of justice.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. Confirmed now on MSNBC.

[blogslut]

40. Ugh, yeah

Watching it now:

Link to tweet

[teach1st]

41. Politico also confirmed

[In It to Win It]

39. Who didn't see this coming?

[dem4decades]

43. Putin wins again.

[Mme. Defarge]

44. Of course he did, Bill Barr

be dammed.

[jeffreyi]

45. Yep.

[enid602]

46. tattoo

Well it looks like Roger can get his new back tattoo.

[FM123]

48. Interesting that RWNJ John Cardillo tweeted this before it even made the news

I wonder who knew and when....

[cabot]

49. No surprise

The DNC needs to hire PIs to watch that guy like a hawk.

[bdamomma]

50. fuck this POS

we need to get him OUT!!! tRump that is.

We have a fucking loyalist party.

[warmfeet]

51. Elections have consequences.

This country elected a criminal to the white house. Now for the consequences.

[ancianita]

52. FUCK ROGER STONE AND THE THUGOCRACY HORSE HE RODE IN ON.

[diva77]

53. Dump has now reassembled the election dream team - Stone, Manafort, Rove, Barr

[ancianita]

54. On a calmer note...

A personality cult that tries to establish rule of men over Rule of Law purposely conflates 'loyalty' with 'patriotism.'

Most of those who put party henchmen or president over country are loyalists who simply substitute "patriotism" for their core value of "loyalty."

We who know what a Rule of Law nation is, know that they fool no one but themselves.

[gollygee]

55. He knows he isn't going to be re-elected. nt

[Takket]

63. maybe stone will visit him in prison..........

[yaesu]

56. according to Maddow now that barr got his handpicked guy in the ny jd he is going after the

investigators who opened the russian investigation, this is their plan all along.

[iluvtennis]

57. What a shameful day for justice. Stone committed crimes to help elect trump with no consequences.

This is a day I'm very ashamed to be an American.

[sigpooie]

58. It looks like the joker set the penguin free

Legal fees are still due and payable, so The penguin better have a good book.

[H2O Man]

59. Recommended.

Not surprising, of course. But offensive as hell.

[Sneederbunk]

62. CROOKED ROGER. DON'T LOCK HIM UP!

[BGBD]

64. Trump's dumb

Stone is small potatoes and he just gave up political capital to keep him out of jail when he could have just waited until after the election. Even if he lost he'd still have three months to pardon him before he was gone.

So, pretty clearly this is just another attempt to change the news cycle and gets people focused on something besides his abysmal response to coroanvirus. It won't work. This will be covered, slightly, for about a day and then back to wall-to-wall COVID coverage. We can remind everyone about it when convenient and say that Trump is the swamp who abuses his power to do personal favors for his friends.

[roamer65]

69. Another nail in Dump's political coffin.

[demmiblue]

73. ...