President Donald Trump took to Twitter early Tuesday morning and demanded the Justice Department immediately grant a new trial to his longtime friend and protege, Roger Stone, who is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday after he was convicted of obstruction, lying to Congress, and witness tampering in November of last year.
Having apparently watched a segment on Fox News in which legal analyst Andrew Napolitano also mentioned a new trial for Stone, Trump posted these three tweets:
“Judge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous & self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, whose also a lawyer, by the way. ‘Madam foreperson, your a lawyer, you have a duty, an affirmative obligation, to reveal to us when we selected you the…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2020
…..existence of these tweets in which you were so harshly negative about the President & the people who support him. Don’t you think we wanted to know that before we put you on this jury.’ Pretty obvious he should (get a new trial). I think almost any judge in the Country…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2020
…..would order a new trial, I’m not so sure about Judge Jackson, I don’t know.” @Judgenap (Andrew Napolitano) @foxandfriends
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2020
As if that wasn’t enough ranting for one morning, the president then returned to the Mueller investigation and suggested he might sue those who dared to investigate Russia’s attack on the 2016 election:
These were Mueller prosecutors, and the whole Mueller investigation was illegally set up based on a phony and now fully discredited Fake Dossier, lying and forging documents to the FISA Court, and many other things. Everything having to do with this fraudulent investigation is…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2020
….badly tainted and, in my opinion, should be thrown out. Even Mueller’s statement to Congress that he did not see me to become the FBI Director (again), has been proven false. The whole deal was a total SCAM. If I wasn’t President, I’d be suing everyone all over the place…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2020
….BUT MAYBE I STILL WILL. WITCH HUNT!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 18, 2020
There can be no doubt that this president is actively trying to interfere in the workings of the Department of Justice. It’s one of many reasons he needs to be booted from office come November.
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