Roger Stone given 3 years 4 months….Stone not sent to jail today, left courthouse no shackles and smiling

• Roger Stone, 67, arrived at Washington’s federal court with his wife Nydia for sentencing hearing Thursday
• Federal judge Amy Berman Jackson said his punishment for lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction will be 40 months in prison
• But because he is asking for a retrial over claims of bias by the jury foreperson, the sentence will not take effect
• Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, said she had rejected prosecutors’ demand  for nine years on her – not because of outside pressure
• That was a reference to Trump, who had raged about the initial demand – and for whom a 40 month sentence can be portrayed as a win
• Judge issued a stunning rebuke not just of Stone but of Donald Trump himself for trying to interfere in the case
• Case has plunged attorney general Bill Barr into crisis as he pleaded with Donald Trump to stop tweeting about it – and president refused
• Within an hour of his arrival, Trump was tweeting again about the case this time suggesting the prosecution was unfair 
• He claimed James Comey had lied to Congress but was not prosecuted 
• Trump called himself the nation’s ‘chief law enforcement officer,’ and Barr was reported to be considering resigning 

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Protestors chant "lock him up" as Roger Stone leaves the court after being sentenced to 40 months in prison pic.twitter.com/zpEwnmNB0Y

— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) February 20, 2020

I’d say odds of a pardon are pretty high….

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