Roger Stone's 40-month sentence set off speculation in Washington over whether President Trump would grant Stone a pardon. Trump, who issued 11 high-profile pardons earlier this week, said he was holding off for now.
Jackson angrily denied that Stone was being punished for his politics or his allies. “He was not prosecuted, as some have claimed, for standing up for the president. He was prosecuted for covering up for the president,” she said.
Crabb said there had been a “miscommunication” between Barr and Timothy Shea, the former Barr aide who now serves as the acting U.S. Attorney in the nation’s capital. Crabb asked the judge to impose “a substantial period of incarceration.” Overnight Thursday, Trump retweeted a conservative cable host’s comment that what happened to Stone “should never happen again.”
“Stone’s actions were not a one-off mistake in judgment. Nor were his false statements made in the heat of the moment. They were nowhere close to that,” prosecutors wrote in the court papers. The public debacle also prompted a rare statement from the Chief Judge of the D.C. District Court, Beryl A. Howell, who said “public criticism or pressure is not a factor” in judges’ sentencing decisions.
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