so this is how the kleptocracy works. We actually have a really great example now that we can
look at. Donald Trump was so out
that his friend Roger Stone, who depending on when you ask him, he barely knows, was
to be sentenced for possibly seven to nine years that he personally intervened and all
of a sudden the sentencing recommendations have been changed. The prosecutors have quit
in a fury and we have ourselves a very nice little case study in the unhinged, the even
more on hinge Trump that we can expect to see if he gets reelected to another first,
uh, to another four years. So the way that it went down is that Trump went crazy on Twitter,
clearly tampered with the justice system and Roger Stone now is going to get himself a
far shorter prison sentence for his crimes. Federal prosecutors told the court Monday
that seven to nine years is the right range that they would like to see for the crimes
that Roger Stone committed and was convicted of, which are witness tampering and lying
to Congress.
Now remember, the prosecutors make a recommendation, the defense will get a chance to state its
case and ultimately a judge will decide what the sentence is going to be. Trump went nuts
at the Mir recommendation from the prosecutors tweeting quote, 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. Now understand that when Donald Trump is referring
to people on the other side, he's talking about about people who haven't been charged
with a crime, haven't been tried, and certainly haven't been convicted of anything. So Trump
is saying the fact that people who I believe did something wrong, but who haven't even
been accused of anything by the justice system, the fact that they aren't going to prison
is a justification for Roger Stone going to prison for a far shorter amount of time.
This is crazy authoritarianism. This is the stuff of dictators. Now following Donald Trump's
middle of the night tweet, which he sent right around 2:00 AM on Tuesday morning, the justice
department department suddenly decides we're going to overrule the prosecutors who are
recommending seven to nine years. According to Huffington post, all four federal prosecutors
who ran the Roger Stone trial then abruptly dropped out of the case on Tuesday after senior
department of justice leadership intervened to take the rare step of walking back the
prosecutor's sentencing recommendation. This is not normal. This gets us to Tuesday afternoon
and as HuffPost says, the U S attorney's office for DC filed a new recommendation asking that
stone, who is, of course a Trump advisor, be sentenced to prison, but not suggesting
any particular length of time. Don't be tricked by Trump or anybody around him. This is very
irregular. This is our justice system being subjugated by the oval office for political
reasons successfully.
The prosecutors are resigning and this is the unhinged Trump that we predicted because
he gets away with everything and it's going to get much worse if he is reelected. We know
that Trump's acquittal from impeachment has emboldened him. We know that Trump essentially
getting away with everything in the Mueller investigation has emboldened him. He will
do whatever he wants and why wouldn't he? He's gotten away with everything that he's
tried. They are purging legal truth telling impeachment witnesses. We talked about that
Monday. This includes Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Veneman. This includes ambassador to the European
union, Gordon Sunland, and now they're telling the justice department shorter prison sentences
please, and they're not saying, please just imagine if Donald Trump wins reelection. Nothing
will hold them back. This is how we continue the authoritarian slide. We have to stop it
in November. This story, if it were under Obama, if it were under any other presidency,
it would be wall to wall coverage for days.
The incredible overreach by the oval office, but it's barely a blip. It got a little coverage.
We had the New Hampshire primary around the same time. Okay. This is just the beginning.
If Donald Trump gets himself reelected in November