Rachel Maddow outlines what has been uncovered about Roger Stone's involvement in Russia's assistance in the election of Donald Trump now that Trump has commuted Stone's sentence just days before he was meant to show up for prison. Aired on 7/10/2020.
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Trump Commutes Sentence Of Key Russia Scandal Figure Roger Stone | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
I’m hoping Prosecutors are holding back charges on Stone And Manafort. Once Trump is gone no more Pardons.
@T Electronix Ok i will get the link for you but you won’t watch it it anyway!
here is when she got charged https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsu61J-npag
Here is more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKhl2YqiDoA i’ll get the court ruling too cause she is a LIAR!
@Bill Wilson ‘the link’
You mean links, honey.
Anyway, don’t be coy.
Describe in your own words what you think she did and exactly how she “lied”.
After all, you were the one who typed that allegation so you surely already had something specific in mind.
Didn’t you.
Sean Padgett I don’t think the SDNY can do much especially barr’s interference and Jeffery Berman gone. My heart aches at what this administration has done to the rule of law and to America! Will we, can we ever get past all the damage?!
Law and order only for those who speak the truth.
DeedsterDoo, The “truth” by whose interpretation?
Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth..
Steve Bannon’s contacts with Stone during the 2016 campaign was one of the featured parts of Stone’s trial..
“I think we did, yes,” said Bannon, when asked during Stone’s trial whether the Trump campaign viewed Stone as its “access point” to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
Stone’s denials of having any contact with WikiLeaks were obliterated by testimony from people like Bannon and a trail of emails and phone records. One message from Aug. 16, 2016, shows Stone telling Bannon on the day he took over as campaign CEO about the prospect that WikiLeaks would drop more damaging documents for the Clinton campaign.
“I have an idea … to save Trump’s @55,” Stone wrote.
Bannon testified that he heard repeatedly from Stone — before he even took over as Trump campaign chief — about his access to WikiLeaks. And Stone kept on talking about the potential of more detrimental materials through the late summer and early fall, at a time when Clinton had the lead in the polls.
Bannon’s contacts with Stone included an Oct. 4, 2016, exchange after a much-hyped Assange news conference, which fueled the hashtag “October?surprise” but it turned out to be a bust.
“It was a big dud, yes,” Bannon said.
But a few days later, WikiLeaks dumped emails stolen from the Clinton campaign just minutes after The Washington Post published the “Access Hollywood” tape. Bannon described that chain of events as the “Billy Bush weekend” — a reference to Trump bragging about grabbing women by the p..
Ex-Trump campaign official Rick Gates testified under oath in Roger Stone’s trial that he was in the presidential limousine with Trump, and he’d heard Stone tell Trump about the WikiLeaks release of hacked DNC emails before the dump happened — a direct contradiction of what Trump told Mueller in his written testimony.
In his under oath testimony, Gates described how he’d seen Trump get a phone call from Stone in summer 2016, and after Trump hung up, told Gates “more information would be coming” regarding WikiLeaks.
Going back as far as April 2016, Gates said, Stone told him that information would be released by WikiLeaks that could be helpful to Trump’s campaign. He reiterated this the following month. All this was before WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange stated publicly on June 12, 2016, that he had pending releases related to Hillary Clinton.
On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks posted thousands of emails from the DNC — emails that had been hacked by Russian intelligence officers.
After that, Gates testified, the top levels of the Trump campaign were very interested in what Stone knew about WikiLeaks. Gates said Manafort asked him to follow up with Stone to try to learn more about WikiLeaks’s plans. And Gates said that Manafort indicated he would update others on the campaign, “including the candidate” — Donald Trump.
Gates also testified that he witnessed a phone call between Trump and Stone in late July, shortly after the DNC email releases began, while Gates was in a car with Trump driving to LaGuardia Airport. Gates said that after the call ended, Trump told him that “more information would be coming.”
Trump on April 11, 2019, after Julian Assange is arrested:
“I know nothing about WikiLeaks. It’s not my thing, and I know there is something having to do with Julian Assange. I know nothing really about him. That’s not my deal in life.” 😲
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
–Winston Churchill
And ye shall know the TRUTH, and the truth shall make you free…
@Deauq E ….and it would suit YOU Deauq to break all of YOUR Treasured bottles of Trump’s Orange Smegma at YOUR Barr!….Quit Swilling the mushroom juice! It makes YOU hallucinate.
The truth never gets to the wider mass of people so mostly the truth does remain hidden … unfortunately
CHALK 4 CHANGE time to change that
David J now do. Biden and Obama and the fbi cia DOJ all Corrupt
I’m giving you a like for the work you’ve put in on your comment, kudos
Trump is corrruption at its highest; he personifies vulgarity and unintelligence.
@Dana Johnson no she’s not but she’s a criminal and she’s not even a US citizen
@Dana Johnson I guess it’s okay cuz she’s a Democrat
@Dana Johnson and it should be if you we’re not born in the US you shouldn’t run for public office and that goes for Obama too born in Kenya doctor his birth certificate he needs to be in jail so bad for all the crimes he’s done!!!!
@Dana Johnson anyway nice debating with you but I’m always right I tell the truth Honey badger Don’t lie 😉
@honey badger Of the truth 2020 – who cares?
Trump calling himself the “law & order president” is laughable at best, especially when you consider the fact that Trump has been engaged in multiple illegal activities his entire adult life. Trump has been laundering money with the Russians since the late 80s. This was proved when the Trump Taj Mahal was fined $10 million—the highest penalty ever levied by the feds against a casino—and admitted to having “willfully violated” anti-money-laundering regulations for years. Trump’s casino had broken anti-money laundering rules 106 times in its FIRST year and a half of operation in the early 1990s, according to the IRS in a 1998 settlement agreement. This information is all a matter of public record today.
If Trump truly cared about justice, he would turn himself into the SDNY, and admit to running a CCE, a Continuing Criminal Enterprise for more than 30 years. A criminal enterprise that he is now operating from the White House.
@Bill Wilson At least she get their names right.
Bill Wilson
Sir, Trump government is releasing inmates from federal prisons due to covi 19 but he wants all the kids in America to go back to school with no control plan on this Coronavirus. There’s only a guidelines that is not the same as a plan.
Bill
Broke a casino business is unbelievable.
Filed for bankruptcy 6 times..failed a University and file for bankruptcy an airline..really Amazing
Keep in mind that I am not Democrat or Republican..I do not care about political parties at all but this facts that I am mentioning are real and said a lot about the kind of person is running our country.
Unbelievable it is for Reply believed or No.
I don’t see how his organization has not been slapped with a RICO investigation. I am not a lawyer, but just as an observer, I am puzzled about that one. I wonder what the legal distinction between CCE and RICO. Is it intent, maybe? Hmmm…
@axiom1 https://checkyourfact.com/2017/07/27/fact-check-is-it-illegal-to-lie-to-congress-even-when-youre-not-under-oath/
If one thing trump is good at is corrupting anything he touches.
A S but not da bozo ?
Stone didn’t need to be corrupted. He’s a self-made criminal.
@Owen Oulton
👍 point well taken
Individual 1 is a floater in the cesspool that is the GOP.
Let’s see…Obama commuted 1,715 sentences in his terms….some life sentences of hardened criminals….and you are clucking about Roger Stone? Come on! Guess this makes the Marxist Democrats look really bad.
Floaters are usually the easiest to expel!
@R L T You where in the batch, why are you complaining?
A real man would take responsibility for their actions. Little Donny and little Roger are sissys that sit to pee. So scared of Federal prison which is like being on house arrest
He doesn’t even have the mentality of a 3 yr. old he’s still potty training.
I dont have to take anything to dems. Trump is building a golden calf to sit outside Trump tower to replace the gtaven images destroyed by protesters. When the golden calf is complete. Pence and McConell will pray over it to all deliver all from the democrats and those that pay homage to the goldrn calf can get a mark on their forehead
@Ki Ma Liberals like you are disgusting liars .
Roger stone is a weirdo swinger. Go look it up and ask his wife.
@M Lee Barrack Obama is married to a man. Cant top that for weirdness.
This is bad, he wants Putin to help him win 2020.
I don’t think this is going to happen and you are under a false assumption. Did you know that Trump just ordered the attack on a Russian hacking service that was deeply involved in the last election? Trump ordered an attack and this hacking service has now been electronically identified and destroyed.
He is also attempting to shut down Chinese packing services. If you have Tik Tok a Chinese hacking service is already in your computer according to the FBI and Homeland security.
@T. R. Campbell Yes, agreed about Tik Tok. And of course agreed about China. This is nothing new for them. They put bugs in all our incoming electronics, for goodness sakes (they are shameless that way). That being said, I think that Trump had to order the attacks on Russian and Chinese hackers for show in order to do the absolute minimum, as usual. He is massively lazy and has skated by his entire life on the absolute minimum. So, with all due respect and peace, friend, I think you are wrong about him, if in fact you are defending his character. If not, then I apologize if I misunderstood.
He also asked Ukraine and China And he needs Stone’s help again.
Well you certainly got corruption at its highest level, America is becoming totally lawless!
@Jayne Berkley It’s against the law to imprison someone when the evidence that was presented by the prosecution was proven to be all based on lies.
@Jayne Berkley The evidence used against R Stone was proven to be nothing but lies.
The democrats are all about lies no facts… but plenty of lies and you bought them.
Timothy Mckee He was found guilty by a jury of his peers, if they had serious issues , they should have appealed!
Timothy Mckee what about this don’t you get, jury found him guilty! End Off!
@Jayne Berkley Hahahaha. Based on evidence that now is known to be bogus.
DC courts are biased with Obama appointee’s.
*Next . . a POTUS Pardon for General Mike Flynn . . . then Paul Manafort . . . but not for Michael Cohen, who ratted on Trump.*
Bill Wilson
Trump will hunker in the bunker like a bone spur flunker
“Byedon” 2020 🌊🗳💙
Cohen is a proven liar whose “ratting” didn’t do a thing to President Trump.
You do realize that the term “ratted” refers to making public criminal behavior.
So by saying Michael Cohen “ratted” on donald trump you are saying that donald trump is guilty of the offenses that he was “ratted on” about.
treki21 Flynn IS convicted and awaiting sentencing. It was NOT the full Appeals Court but a 3 judge panel that delivered a 2-1 opinion that Judge Sullivan should dismiss the case. Judge Sullivan has returned that opinion for full Appeals Court consideration.
@God_Laughs _At_Atheists A proven liar who lied to protect a proven liar. Do you see where I’m going with this??
Welcome to the United States of the Maffia.
More like United States of Russia
@Lex K Good point…
The United States of the Russian Maffia
Never ending episodes of The Sopranos!
Elementalism 😀 (6
Lex K more like the Divided States of Russia
Putin is running your country now if don’t remove his puppet he will destroy you from within
@XsKtmCrXr hahahhaahhaha, and the band kept playing,have fun. wera a coat, the water is icy. Love it 😉
I’m going to find you when the cops are gone
@Moses G hey Moses, you still live in that cave on the mountain?
@m c makes no sense but ok. Cant spell either
@XsKtmCrXr i can in 6 languages but typos, 😉
Demolish the OLC document and “Impeach the M-F” Again – Start the process soon to bring the process in alignment with other maturing investigations.
Disband the DNC arrest the political domestic terrorist democrats for sponsoring sedition and fostering treason.
@Timothy Mckee Lay off the meth Timmy , you are having delusions again
@wee huddy Look up Political domestic terrorist and it fits what the democrats stand for.
@Timothy Mckee look up Roger Stone/right wing despots . Check out what Rog has done in the real world , see what a real terrorist looks like instead of your fevered imaginings . Stone and Manafort have taken squillions from some of the most evil people on the planet . btw the Democratic Party is a party of the centre right by any world standard .
@wee huddy There are facts in which you are ignorant of. The democrats are the most corrupt lying cheaters ever in America’s history. The democrats are going to be destroyed in 2020 elections.
The truth will come out. It’s the democrats that are the party for treason and sedition.
The Democrats are political domestic terrorist’s Hang them high!
Dictatorship.
Banana republic.
You guys are all deplorable.
I weep for you, America.
A third world nation with a pair of Manolo shoes.
Your system is broken and has been for a long time.
It may be your own body odor.
We’re not all Deplorable! It’s only the corrupt Republican Party and tRumplicans and his Cult followers that are aiding and abetting all this to happen! The Democrats Hate tRump and his entire sycophant administration. There’s also many Republican Conservatives who are turning against tRump, like The Liberty Project and Veterans Against the GOP and they’ve put out a lot of damning commercials against tRump and even saying they’re voting for Joe Biden, tRump’s Democratic rival over their own party’s candidate! You know someone’s pretty bad and evil when their own party turns against them!
Trump’s betrayals know no bounds. Once he’s ripped out of the White House, there needs to be a reckoning.
@Tim Noyes After 4 years how can possibly not support him???
@Ann van de Kew
No, I had Trumps buddy take it for me.
@Timothy Mckee What evidence of democrat treason? You think that, but not that Trump BETRAYED our own countrymen, our SOLDIERS by covering up that he knew about russian bounties, while doing nothing to stop it? He actively went out of his way to allow a foreign power to put bounties on the heads of fellow countrymen and women.
The most Un-American thing you can do is snuggle up to trump. What has he done for you? Own the Libs. Oh, yeah, great work. Hundreds of thousands will die from a virus that first world countries now have under control, lying through his teeth at any chance, stacking the government with is goons that are loyal to him and not America… You would have to actually be blind and deaf to not see that he and clinton are the same. He is running the country like he would his businesses. And do you know what he does to his businesses when he eventually grows tired of them or they don’t make money hand over fist? He destroys them, entirely.
Do some head math here, if Trump is not that great at running his businesses, and he said he would run America like a business, and things aren’t looking good for him in november, what do you think will happen?
@Tim Noyes AG Barr stated before Congress – SPYING DID OCCUR. Remember the FISA abuse scandal? Knowing that the Steele ‘dossier’ was bogus, they still used it as ‘evidence’ to obtain fraudulent warrants to spy on Carter Page and others, all to gain access into Trump world.
Sounds like a pipe dream love but your pic with you wearing the mask explains alot
I don’t feel bad for Cohen AT ALL, but it seems to me rather clear why Cohen is in jail and Stone is not.
Stone threatening squealing!! Probably dead soon. Barr will visit him!
Because stone probably told trump he would spill his guts if he’d identify get him out of this. Putin Owens trump stone owners trump and probably a lot of other influential people.when trump gets charged he will take them down to save his own neck.
Dozo G Because Stone didn’t squeal on Trump and. Cohen finally did. I think. Cohen is being truthful, but he should have taken responsibility before he did. Look at all the people that went to jail for lying for Trump. The ones that didn’t squeal on him are now being pardoned before they might turn on him. Now we get more corrupt people in society so they can lie and do more corruption for him! Now they can help him though this campaign too!
@sandy frye Sorry for the confusion, but I meant to say that it is very obvious for anyone with a working brain what the difference between Cohen and Stone is.
And “bingo” I think you have a working brain.😁
What do you expect when you give a crook absolute power?
It wouldn’t surprise me if starts a war if it gives him a chance to win the election.
John Sade…just like ” Wag the Dog”.
john Sade ….. when armed, NRA, Trump-cult supporters are called onto the streets around, ooh, November? Watch the GOP team head for their (off shore) bunkers. Pray, if you think it’ll help!
God bless America…😢
He’s already tried that one, but Iran wouldn’t give him the pleasure.
He for sure is working very hard to start a civil war.
CORRUPTION AT HIGHEST LEVEL !! THE WORLD LAUGH AT USA LOL
Like you have a better life?
@Donna absolutely better then you
@Teuku Badruddin Syah better than me?? Hmmmm you live in a free country?
@ Donna NYC is a free state … free from dumb Trump influence, good riddance forever from here Lol
What’s with the stupid dark glasses & hat & coat? Some sort of gang uniform. Makes him look as sleazy as he is!
He wants to be the Penguin in the next Batman movie.
Mark G. So you think the thugs and looters look cool too I bet 😈🔥
@Dawn Kuzio NO. I actually believe he should be in prison. It was an observation.
Yeah with his Nixon tattoo
@Dawn Kuzio Are you actually defending this creature?