Scheduled to surrender for a 40-moth prison sentence July 14, 68-year-old Roger Stone pleaded with 74-year-old President Donald Trump to commute or pardon him, claiming putting him in the slammer would be a “death sentence.” With his flair for the dramatic, Trump isn’t likely to intervene until the last minute, making clear statement about the 22-month, $40 million witch hunt known as the Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigation. Stone was snared by Mueller’s team of 17, largely Democrat, career prosecutors, based on wild speculation about Stone’s alleged contacts with WikiLeaks 49-year-old founder Julian Assange. Reviewing emails between Stone and his 73-year-old buddy, conspiracy author Jerome Corsi, Mueller nabbed Stone. Everyone in Washington knows that Roger Stone is a publicity-hound bag-of-wind, doing anything possible to draw attention to himself.
Trump’s decision to pardon or commute Stone’s sentence has almost nothing to do with knowing Stone over the years, in Trump’s vast “socialite” encounters in New York’s jet-setting scene. While Trump claims he wasn’t much of a party animal in his younger years, he was certainly invited to parties, where hobnobbers like Rogers Stone might have circulated, if lucky enough to get invited. Trump could care less about Roger Stone other that the fact that he has a chance to discredit what he calls the “Russian hoax” or “witch hunt,” where for four years he was accused by Democrats and the media, especially the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, etc., of being a Russian asset. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), looked for anything impeachable.
When Mueller came out March 23, 2019 with his Final Report, he essentially cleared Trump or anyone in his campaign of Russian conspiracy. Based off former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s paid opposition research AKA “the Steele Dossier,” Mueller knew from Day One that salacious charges by Hillary were utter rubbish, yet he conducted the investigation anyway. Before Mueller got the call May 17, 2017 as Special Counsel, 60-year-old former FBI Director James Comey had used the Steele Dossier to wiretap Trump and his campaign since July 2016, months before the Nov. 8 presidential election. Comey relied on Hillary’s garbage to dupe the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act [FISA] Court to get warrants to wiretap Trump campaign officials, even though he knew the Steele Report was utterly bogus. Comey did everything possible to sabotage Trump’s 2016 campaign.
When it comes to Rogers Stone, he was an extraneous piece in the Mueller investigation that went bust, only indicting Trump campaign officials for concocted process crimes or other nefarious activity like Trump’s 71-year-old former, though brief, Campaign chairman Paul Manafort. Mueller essentially convicted Manafort for tax evasion, bank and wire fraud for consulting activity 12 years before the Trump campaign. Mueller’s other targets, Trump’s minor campaign aids George Papadopoulos and Carter Page, were accused by Mueller but never charged. Stone was part of Mueller’s last ditch days to snare anyone, letting his 62-year-old lead prosecutor Andrew Weissmann fabricate anything he wanted. Stone, of all people, was a hapless fool, incapable of knowing anything about how Russia hacked the Democrat National Committee [DNC] and former Hillary Campaign Chairman John D. Podesta.
Stone’s singing like a canary, begging Trump to intervene before July 14, the day he reports to federal custody. “I do read what he [Trump] thinks through his tweets . . . His tweets have been very critical of my prosecutors, critical of the conduct of my trial, quite supportive,” Stone told SiriusXM radio Kim Norton and & Sam Roberts Show. Trump played coy July 9 on the phone with Fox News host Sean Hannity when asked about a Stone pardon or commutation. “I am always thinking. I am always thinking,” Trump said about the Stone matter. “You’ll be watching, like everybody else in this case,” Trump said. Trump’s decision to intervene speaks volumes about what he thinks of four years of illegal and wasted investigations during the entire four his entire presidency, including failed impeachment hearings and Senate trial. Trump wants to make a statement soon.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said he doesn’t know what Trump will do about Stone’s case. “Certainly as Roger Stone looks at having to report to confinement, that decision, whether it’s made or not, become more important to make in the coming days if we’re going to keep Roger Stone, who is advancing in age and health, from reporting,” Meadows said. But while Trump has empathy for Stone’s health, the real issue boils down to sending a message about Comey’s illegal counterintelligence investigation and Mueller’s fake Special Counsel investigation. Pardoning Stone would send the loudest possible message that all the Democrat and media driven investigation were illegal and utterly worthless. Telling Hannity “you’ll be watching, like everybody else in his case,” Trump signals that Stone will be a free man sometime before July 14, if not sooner.
