Trump in NH - Here is a link if anyone missed it

The largest declines were seen at the Commerce Department — that's because the 2020 census will have concluded, accounting for the drawdown in spending.

‘Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!’: Trump condemns DOJ seeking up to nine years for Roger Stone

https://www.washingtonexaminer...ears-for-roger-stone
President Trump condemned the Justice Department’s decision to seek a prison sentence of up to nine years for self-described “dirty trickster” and longtime Trump confidante Roger Stone, hinting he may commute the GOP agent provocateur’s sentence or pardon him.

“Disgraceful!” Trump tweeted in response to the news early Tuesday morning, adding, “This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!”


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This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice! https://twitter.com/chuckrossd.../1227016256227807232 …
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Prosecutors recommend up to NINE YEARS in prison for Roger Stone.

They call foreign election interference a "deadly adversary" even though Stone was never accused of working with Russians or WikiLeaks. https://dailycaller.com/2020/0...-prison-roger-stone/ …


Stone was found guilty in November on five separate counts of lying to the House Intelligence Committee in its investigation into Russian election interference, in addition to one count that he “corruptly influenced, obstructed, and impeded” the congressional investigation and another that he attempted to “corruptly persuade” radio show host Randy Credico’s congressional testimony.

The two-week jury trial centered on Stone’s apparently false claims of being in communication with WikiLeaks and about his actions taken during the 2016 election and beyond.

The DOJ’s 26-page sentencing memorandum on Monday asked that the judge sentence Stone to 87 to 108 months in prison.

“This conduct was part of an effort to hide from Congress and to craft a false narrative about Stone’s conduct in 2016,” prosecutors said on Monday. “Stone regularly communicated with senior Trump campaign officials — including deputy campaign chairman Richard Gates and campaign CEO Steve Bannon — about WikiLeaks’ plans to release more information that would be damaging to the Clinton campaign. Both Gates and Bannon believed that Stone was providing them with non-public information about WikiLeaks’ plans. Indeed, Bannon viewed Stone as the Trump campaign’s access point to WikiLeaks.”

Stone’s defense attorneys argued in their own 35-page sentencing memo late Monday night that the DOJ had inflated Stone’s offense level, and that the proper sentencing guidelines should be a prison sentence of 15 to 21 months. Moreover, they asked the judge to lower his sentence to just probation, arguing that he should receive a lesser sentence “as a 67-year-old first time offender convicted of serious but non-violent crimes.”

“The facts of this case do not warrant the application of any offense level increases,” his defense team said.

The jury found Stone repeatedly misrepresented and concealed his unsuccessful 2016 attempt at collaborating with WikiLeaks to obtain dirt on then-candidate Hillary Clinton when speaking with Trump-Russia investigators from the House Intelligence Committee in a spin-off case from special counsel Robert Mueller’s two-year investigation.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, the Obama-appointee who presided over Stone’s trial, will hand down his sentence on February 20.

In a section explaining what they believed was “the seriousness of the offense” Stone committed, prosecutors quoted Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers No. 68, in which he says foreign election interference is among the “most deadly adversaries of republican government.”

“Investigations into election interference concern our national security, the integrity of our democratic processes, and the enforcement of our nation’s criminal laws,” prosecutors wrote Monday. “ Obstructing such critical investigations thus strikes at the very heart of our American democracy.”

The congressional committee’s investigation into Russian election interference was focused on what Russian interference was directed against the U.S. and if those actions included links between Russia and people associated with Trump’s campaign. It was widely known before Stone’s September 2017 congressional testimony that the U.S. government believed WikiLeaks was linked to the issue of Russian interference.

“It is against this backdrop that Stone’s crimes – his obstruction, lies, and witness tampering – must be judged,” the DOJ said.

But during the two-week trial, it was never alleged that Stone was actually in communication with anyone from WikiLeaks, and he was never accused by prosecutors of criminally conspiring with Russia or any other foreign actors.

“In the end, the investigations yielded no evidence of the involvement of any American with the Russian government or any agent operating on its behalf to interfere in the 2016 election,” Stone’s defense team said. “It is also undisputed that Roger Stone had nothing to do with obtaining the compromised emails or providing them to WikiLeaks. The information that Stone failed to provide to HPSCI was insignificant in the broader context of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.”

The lawyers pointed to the sentences of others swept up in Mueller’s investigations: former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort being sentenced to seven and a half years; former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen being sentenced to three years, including two months for misleading Congress about the timing of Trump Tower Moscow; former Trump deputy campaign manager Rick Gates, who cooperated extensively with the government, getting only 45 days in jail and three years of probation; and former Trump foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos getting just 14 days behind bars for lying to FBI investigators.

Stone’s attorneys also quoted Credico’s post-sentencing letter to the court, which read in part, “I never in any way felt that Stone himself posed a direct physical threat to me or to my dog. I chalked up his bellicose tirades to ‘Stone being Stone.’ All bark and no bite!”

How many attended the NH rally?? I looked on Fox News and didn't see anything there...

New Hampshire rally

https://twitter.com/i/status/1227032672645664776

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Originally posted by erj_pilot:
How many attended the NH rally?? I looked on Fox News and didn't see anything there...

Published reports say 12k, of course we know how that goes.

The SNHU Arena in Manchester (a.k.a. The SNHUperDome! ) holds 11,770 for concerts, so for an event like a Trump Rally 12K sounds about right.

With people waiting in the overflow area outside that couldn't get in, the numbers sound right to me...

And where did President Trump (God, how I love typing that!) and VP Mike Pence go AFTER the New Hampshire rally?

They went to Dover Air Force Base to attend the dignified transfer of the remains of two servicemen recently killed in Afghanistan. Of course, the news media, as usual, ignores this.

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‘Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!’: Trump condemns DOJ seeking up to nine years for Roger Stone ...

Isn't this a case of "Fruit of the poisonous tree"?

The arrest and testimony all derived form the bullshit dossier and claims of "Russian Collusion".

If the legal system cannot un-fuck such a situation when the Truth shows up and demands an accounting, it serves as another harbinger of the terminal illness taking the life of this republic, and all who dwell within her.

I hope to see a pardon granted.

^^^^^ Trump has a pretty good salute. Nice he did that.

flashguy

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...f-impeachment-trial/

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel announced on Monday that the GOP and Trump campaign broke an online record in the final days of President Trump’s impeachment trial, raising over $1 million every day in the ten days leading to his ultimate acquittal.

The total surpassed $17 million, according to McDaniel.

“The Trump campaign + @GOP broke an online record by raising over $1M *every day* for 10 days leading up to @realDonaldTrump’s acquittal, totaling over $17M,” she said, noting that they already have half a million volunteers “trained and activated.”

“Democrats‘ sham is helping us grow our grassroots army even more!” she exclaimed

The RNC closed out 2019 with $26.5 million raised in December, totaling $241.1 million raised throughout the entire year. As Breitbart News reported, the haul is a record for a non-presidential election year. At the time, McDaniel credited the massive fundraising numbers, in part, to the Democrats’ “politically motivated impeachment charade”

The RNC and Trump campaign raised a combined $463.6 million in 2019 and reportedly have nearly $200 million cash on hand.

The RNC is planning to flood battleground states with hundreds of additional staffers as the general election draws nearer, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Minnesota, and New Mexico.

extreme sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone was a Mueller team sneak attack

Catherine Herridge:

Senior DOJ official tells
@CBSNews
Department was shocked to see sentencing recommendation Stone case. This is not what was briefed to Dept. The Dept. believes recommendation is extreme, excessive, grossly disproportionate to offenses.


Hours later Aaron Zelinsky, who worked as a prosecutor for Team Mueller, “resigned effective immediately… as a Special Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia,” according to a filing in the Roger Stone case

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Hours later Aaron Zelinsky, who worked as a prosecutor for Team Mueller, “resigned effective immediately… as a Special Assistant US Attorney for the District of Columbia,” according to a filing in the Roger Stone case

"So run, you cur... RUN! Tell all the other curs the LAW'S coming!"

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^^^^^ Trump has a pretty good salute. Nice he did that.

flashguy

I agree!!

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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, the twin brothers who work at the NSC & who participated in an attempted coup to remove President Trump, were both escorted from the White House and removed from their position “with no explanation” on Friday.

I'll just leave this here....

Talk about the ultimate troll: Trump goes to NH and outdraws everyone who was actually on the ballot today. It would be funny if he kept following them around.

^^^ Uhhh, Trump was on the ballot today!

How popular is Trump? Someone just opened a Trump Store right outside Philly.



https://www.buckscountycourier...-bensalem-has-got-it

At 9 a.m. Tuesday, a new store will open at Bensalem Plaza — one that’s unlike the ethnic restaurants and other businesses in the Street Road shopping center.

It’s The Trump Store.

Its name says it all. The red-, white- and blue-colored store will sell clothing, pins, buttons, key rings, bracelets and other items featuring the name and likeness of the nation’s 45th president who has been in the news a lot lately and, if you didn’t know, is running for a second term this year.

Store owner Michael Domanico and his wife, Monica, expect a large turnout for the opening day, as they did a great business from their mobile cart in North Wildwood, New Jersey, when the president visited the shore town recently.