Roger Stone was supposed to be reporting for prison tomorrow. Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance and former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt join Stephanie Ruhle to dig into the president’s decision to commute the sentence of his longtime ally and the lack of response from Republicans. Aired on 07/13/2020.
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Steve Schmidt On Republicans’ Silence: ‘It Is A Tragic Hour’ | Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC
This is what happens when our Congress allows a corrupt President to control the levers of law. You have no law.
It’s not Congress, it’s the GOP controlled Senat that blockes all attempts at reigning in the orange one .
No, it’s called Democracy. Feel free to leave America and go somewhere else if you don’t like Democracy.
@ProseColored Glasses America is NOT a democracy, lol…
edit: Maybe this will help https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpwJKYbEAZ8
@Vin Kie It’s democratic in nature. The point stands, we had a vote. You don’t get to just reject that because you dislike the guy.
Feel free to go somewhere else if you can’t respect a nations vote. You’re a bunch of extremists, and the media has led you to believe you’re righteous in your cause– but you’re just yet another breed of extremist.
@Vin Kie I mean hey, when you have the support of every corporation, the FBI, CIA, Intelligence Agencies– clearly you’re on the right side of history. I mean, because that’s ever been the case, right? Except for right now, for some reason. This anti-Trump hysteria is promoted by all the things that the counter-culture used to reject. Except now that there’s an easy target, Trump, you’re all supporting the people you used to rightfully despise. I mean come on. Wake up.
40 months for lying to Congress. For us that’s a 10 year sentence.
Salnsd
I’m not the one complaining about Stones commutation you are.
@Amy Davis You the finkein internet police? Dont quit you Day job as a seamen collector!!
nighttr “seamen”… omg thank you for the additional laughter. I just love all you ignorant Trump supporters. ROFL!!!!!
@Billy Bob well of course you aren’t , you back Trump NO MATTER what he does, and he knows it, he owns you
Salnsd insults instead of debate.
This will help his dismantling. A Scoundrel on the run, Run Dump Run
Trump doesnt want stone to rat on him..meanwhile Americans are dying by the thousands
Yeah. Isn’t it great?
Exactly Mr. Jed
Stone will probably get killed by his own car or something. These situations don’t end well. If I was sick enough I’d hold a sweepstake just to bet you all on how many days before Stone mysteriously dies.
This morning I looked my computer feed… 137,762 DEAD! Now it shows 138,546… That’s 784 in less than a half-day! WTF? I mean really, WTF? If that happened on a plane crash in Nebraska, or New York, or Maine — A plane fell out of the air and 784 Americans DIED! You KNOW it’d be news for 2 Goddamned WEEKS!!!! And today mr. president its there and says we’re doing great. Like I said—WTF?
The point is Stone DIDN’T tell on TRUMP, he lied for him, that is why he was convicted and sentenced to 40 months in the FIRST place. Trump gave him a pardon to seal the deal.
Stone looks like he should be in prison just by looking at him.
😂👍👌
Roger Stone looks like a villain from Batman! Or he tries to be.
IKR
STONE HAS ALWAYS BEEN CRIMINAL ALL HIS LIFE, FROM NIXON TILL TODAY. HE HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN ALL REPUBLICAN PARTY ELECTION LAW BREAKING TILL TODAY.
Yep. He’s a POS.
“Controversial” decision??? How is this controversial? It’s hands-down blatant corruption, pure and simple.
Billy Bob Laughable. There is no comparison between the two. Obama did commute harsh sentences of low level non violent criminals. I challenge you to document any “terrorist” Obama pardoned. The salient point is that Obama had no relationship with any of them or self interest. Trump on the other hand commuted the sentence of a co-conspirator who was convicted by a jury on the weight of the evidence. Stone was involved personally with tRumps campaign and has direct knowledge that could damage trump in the criminal case pending in SDNY. Do you deny any of these facts?
FRANKSNAKE71 you don’t know the difference between a pardon and a commutation.
Trump 11 commutations
Obama 1715 commutations
Obama let out gun criminals, crack dealers and terrorists.
This is well known try googling it.
One crack dealer he released killed 3 people two of which were children.
……but you are upset about Stone!
Your selective outrage speaks volumes.
@Dr. Ellie Sattler ,
Billy Bob You missed the point and deflected. Make it easy for you: Trump is corrupt. Pardoning Stone was corrupt. Nothing to do with Obama. Try to stay on point.
FRANKSNAKE71 so when Obama lets out crack dealers that go in to murder children that’s ok.
…. but when Trump lets out Stone that’s really bad.
Thanks for clarifying your blatant hypocrisy.
trump embodies the three wizard of oz characters: the cowardly lion, the heartless tin woodman, the brainless scarecrow
You forget the wicked witch of the west. Trump in November: “I”m melting!”
Stone gonna send his kids to school because Trump say he better or they will go to jail oh they are home schooling oops
@Tim Countis
And like the Wicked Witch of the West, he doesn’t like dogs.
I thought the oompa loompa’s were in another film! (skin tone). Speaking of the chocolate factory, trump reminds me of Augustus Gloop for some reason.
You forgot the dog.
I would likely disagree on a dozen policy issues with Steve Schmidt however, he is a man of conviction and integrity regarding his views on the Trump administration and the hopelessly corrupt
GOP.
Adam Schiff in the impeachment trial — “He’s done it before, he’s doing it now, and you KNOW he’ll do it again”.
And hes rite .But the Cult marches on.
@David Tucker kool-aid for everyone!
@Jody Sheridan A narcosis who love’s his Country?! yeah right
A historic speech from Schiff. One for the history books.
@Karla Kay He is one of the best!
How can you Americans let this be “normal”?
Steve Schmidt is spot on on everything he says here.
Hey genius, we don’t think this is normal.
We let him get into office. We allowed it to be normal. No one else. Hopefully we have learned our lesson now and in the future.
It’s a Republican Congress and Trump’s Maga-hat-wearing-nuts thing. America doesn’t want these fools to represent the country. They have successfully equated the American flag yo the confederate one. It’s frightening to see law offices in my city put up two national flags after this mess.
Don’t think we haven’t tried to de-normalize this. More people voted for Clinton than for Trump in 2016, but the Electoral college skewed things up. We impeached, but Trump’s yes-men in the Senate were a part of a kangaroo court and no conviction was handed down. Maybe in the unrelenting shadow of Covid-19 we will finally get it. Those of us who really want change will vote in November and help set the country to a better normal.
As an outsider my only observation would be that words are cheap – only an overwhelming repudiation of 45 and all of his sycophantic supporters this November will prove whether the US population writ large understand how close the republic has come to devolving into an autocratic dictatorship
..darlings.. o.. mr stone has donald by the .. “STONES”.. o.. and MARYS book comes out tomorrow ..
I have the book ordered! Now we all will know the fool from inside his own mind!! Family! Ain’t it grand? ADHD kid too intense for his own corrupt parents to control so he is hustled off to military school! No care! No concern! Just out of sight, out of mind! Rich way of dealing with conflict! Nothing personal! EVER! WHEN MONEY IS EVERYTHING!! Kids mean nothing! Learn what You live!
Don´t trust Lindsay Graham. He is just putting on a show, so he can claim that he is objective and does not just brown his nose.
Something’s NOT RIGHT!
Lazy Jack2003
BINGO!!!
Lindsay Graham is just another GOP pig at the trough, eating as much as he can for as long as he can.
CORRUPT GOVERNMENT AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL. I Just hope that they will pay the PRICE soonest they leve OFFICE.
‘Abject fools. ‘ ‘Courage crisis. ‘
Steve Schmidt, honorable Republican
*Former Republican, lets not act like anyone is forgiving the party anytime soon after this
Honourable American, he wants democracy back.
@Matt Wooten true, graham in the middle should be encouraged to do the right thing some more
And the man who brought you Sarah Palin!!!
All Republicans who have enabled trump need to be prosecuted for crimes against our constitution.
Humphrey B
NOPE! One responsible vote does not erase all the horrific & harmful behaviour he has, willingly enabled!
ProseColored Glasses
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@Humphrey B He is a back stabbing phony. A perfect match for CNN
@Humphrey B He’s not he just spoke up a couple of times he is still for keeping immigrants out the country taking away social security and ffs he still votes with rethuglikkkants and trump. Hes not good.
This impeachment farce should have taught us one thing: That it’s impossible to jail a sitting official. If your state senator enables Trumputin, first VOTE them OUT this November!
“Not my resposiblilty” to uphold the law, save American soldiers lives from Russian bounties, to protect American lives from a pandemic. Trump is laying bare how corrupt all Republicans are, and they show no shame for their actions…
When he says its not his responsibility, does he mean he’s resigned from being President?
Never Forget the GOP owns all the unecessary harm and death! #RipGOP
Save America bomb the fast food restaurants and the tobacco growers
Steve Schmidt is such an eloquent speaker and sums up the sickness of the GOP quite succinctly.
Vote Blue top to bottom! No complacency! We can’t afford it!
Amen to that!
The whole Lincoln Project group are amazing men and women who are definitely putting country over party. Love and respect them!!
Dump just lost tens of thousands of votes by commuting Stone’s sentence.
It’ll take just a day or two til rush, sean and tucker help them rationalize this too.
Don’t count on them at all—it’s all about our votes.
Which votes are you talking about? His base is walking thru fire for him and most sane people see him for what he is. Please don’t get me wrong, we need EVERYONE to vote. NOV. 2020. I think I’ll use my stimulus money to go to D.C. to watch the US Marshalls take him away.😊
@Yvette Lang I’m talking about the non-crazies who voted for him. Independents who simply thought he might be worth a try. I’ve talked to dozens who’ve changed their minds.
@rationalguy There is a whole youtube channel called “Republican voters against Trump”. it is growing every day.
@codegeek1001 I’m not surprised. True Republicans were never traitors to this country as they’ve become now. I used to be a Republican. No longer!
Lindsey Graham is trying to play his “good statesman “ role…..I hope the good people of South Carolina see him for the long term grifter and joke of humanity that he is.
Totally agree, all of a sudden now he is getting a backbone. Oh I forgot the elections is not that far away and the poles are getting tighter! Now he want to stand up against corrupt Trump, he doesn’t deserve to be a senator!! People of South Carolina vote this clown out in November and elect a person who put your interest first, Not Trump!!!
@Ray Collins He’s been on record saying that he agrees with the Stone commutation. The only people left voting for him is the Trump base. And for SC that’s a pretty even call among their total voters.
John McCain was still warm when Graham started cultivating his deep love for Trump, having totally rubbished him when he was campaigning.
A complete flip, no-one has ever seen such an amazing flip. Lindsay does the best flips. I loved it when Lindsay flipped. .. D J Trump.
A bought and paid for racist it appears. Jamie Harrison looks like a better choice.
Lindsay Graham,Mitch McConnell,Jim Jordan,Devin Nunes and the entire Republican party who supported Trump in the Ukraine scandal impeachment. Let us get rid of them in the coming election.
If Steve Schmidt were to join the Avengers….
Superpower: Words
Superhero name: Scorn
I love this guy. Go Steve.