{"id":44125,"date":"2020-02-18T13:39:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44125"},"modified":"2020-02-18T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T02:14:19","slug":"really-trump-quotes-pro-impeachment-fox-news-judge-to-defend-roger-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44125","title":{"rendered":"REALLY? Trump Quotes Pro-Impeachment Fox News Judge to Defend Roger Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Donald Trump fired off a flurry of tweets in defense of his longtime political guru, and now convicted felon, Roger Stone. Trump&#8217;s Attorney Genuflect Bill Barr heard and obeyed the commands to seek leniency for Stone. Although Barr also made an obviously staged attempt to reclaim some of the independence that the Department of Justice is supposed to maintain.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-stone.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Roger Stone\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40367\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/3324397094241729\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Advs\/fb-share-tn.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"20\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Barr whined that Trump&#8217;s tweets made his job harder. By which he meant that it&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44057\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">harder to conspire to cover up crimes<\/a><\/strong> if Trump keeps confessing to them in public. And it&#8217;s harder to pretend to be impartial when Trump is exposing your sleazy collaboration. But Barr&#8217;s entreaties to get Trump to clam up were apparently a huge failure. On Tuesday morning Trump, once again, lashed out at the rule of law on behalf of Stone:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cJudge Jackson now has a request for a new trial based on the unambiguous &amp; self outed bias of the foreperson of the jury, whose also a lawyer, by the way. \u2018Madam foreperson, you\u2019re a lawyer, you have a duty, an affirmative obligation, to reveal to us when we selected you the&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1229790563668504576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;..would order a new trial, I\u2019m not so sure about Judge Jackson, I don\u2019t know.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Judgenap?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Judgenap<\/a> (Andrew Napolitano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@foxandfriends<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1229790568110268424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s pigheadedness shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone. He is infamous for blazing his own path no matter how ignorant or destructive. What&#8217;s peculiar about these tweets is that they are quoting someone who Trump has viciously maligned in the past.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Andrew Napolitano is the Senior Legal Analyst of Fox News. And in that position he has provided commentary regarding Trump&#8217;s legal tribulations with impeachment. In Napolitano&#8217;s opinion, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43353\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">evidence of Trump&#8217;s guilt<\/a><\/strong> was <em>&#8220;overwhelming.&#8221;<\/em> He also stated that there is <em>&#8220;undisputed evidence that he abused his power,&#8221;<\/em> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43523\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">he elaborated saying that<\/a><\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Everyone who believes in the rule of law should be terrified of a president who thinks and behaves as if it does not apply to him. As the DOJ has stated repeatedly, impeachment is the proper constitutional remedy for that.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Napolitano was <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=43845\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">unceremoniously benched by Fox News<\/a><\/strong> throughout the Senate impeachment hearings, likely due to his legal assessments that conflict with the rest of the Trump-fluffers on the State TV Network. But now Trump is embracing the views of Napolitano that were expressed during an appearance on Fox and Friends <em>(video below)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In this case Napolitano argues in favor of Stone getting a new trial. However, a new trial would not be warranted simply because a juror had an opinion about elements of the case. Every juror is likely to have opinions if they are conscious human beings. Jurors are routinely asked if their opinions would prevent them from being impartial. If not, they can serve. A juror would have to allow their opinions to bias their deliberations in order to declare a mistrial. So far there is no evidence of that.<\/p>\n<p>It remains to be seen what the judge will decide with regard to the verdicts in this case. It&#8217;s hard to believe that a new trial would produce a different result considering all the available evidence against Stone. Remember, all eleven of the other jurors agreed that Stone is guilty on all counts.<\/p>\n<p>But if Trump is adamant that Napolitano&#8217;s advice be adhered to with regard to Stone, then let&#8217;s be consistent. Trump should immediately resign due to the ample evidence of his own guilt that Napolitano so painstakingly laid out. I would have no problem with accepting both of Napolitano&#8217;s assessments. So how about we grant Stone a new trial, and escort Trump out of the White House? That seems fair.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=6133407744001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\">foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Donald Trump fired off a flurry of tweets in defense of his longtime political guru, and now convicted felon, Roger Stone. Trump&#8217;s Attorney Genuflect Bill Barr heard and obeyed the commands to seek leniency for Stone. Although Barr also made an obviously staged attempt to reclaim some of the independence that the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,1201,684,1200],"tags":[735,554,33,239,1364],"class_list":["post-44125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-justice","category-media-bias","category-politics","tag-andrew-napolitano","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-roger-stone","tag-william-barr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/FoxNews\/trump-stone.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-btH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":44147,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=44147","url_meta":{"origin":44125,"position":0},"title":"The REAL Criminal: Roger Stone Was Prosecuted for Covering Up for Trump","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/20\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"On Thursday morning the media was glued to a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. 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