Former Russia special counsel Robert Mueller defends Roger Stone prosecution in wake of Trump commutation

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'(Stone) remains a convicted felon, and rightly so,' Mueller said in a column published Saturday in The Washington Post.

Stone was the last person charged by the Mueller team during the nearly two-year Russia investigation.

"Stone became a central figure in our investigation for two key reasons: He communicated in 2016 with individuals known to us to be Russian intelligence officers, and he claimed advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ release of emails stolen by those Russian intelligence officers," Mueller wrote. "The jury ultimately convicted Stone of obstruction of a congressional investigation, five counts of making false statements to Congress and tampering with a witness," Mueller wrote."Because his sentence has been commuted, he will not go to prison. But his conviction stands."

"We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts and the law and in accordance with the rule of law. The women and men who conducted these investigations and prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false," he said. "Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president," Romney wrote on Twitter Saturday morning.Trump granted Stone clemency days before he was to report to a Georgia prison to begin serving his sentence.

 

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Stone lives in the cesspool of ugly with orange man & all the other republican trumsters!

All it takes is one lie or dishonest act, the felon will be in jail.

I don't give a horses sh!t what Mueller has to say. He is every bit corrupt as Comey & his cronies. The FISA report was a sham/scam, the Dossier was fake ( bought & paid for ), ZERO Russian collusion, unmasking. How much was Obama/Biden behind in all of it ?

Damn straight

so was terrorist Susan Rosenberg and Chelsea Manning, when their sentences were commuted by Bill Clinton and Barack Obama

you are looking at a very powerful, fallen being.

Mueller, Mueller, Mueller. Did you write that or was it Weismann?

Mueller didnt write this OP-ed. Somebody else did.

Commuted. 😆 65 years old. Doesn't care he is illegally labeled a felon.

Haha, Mueller. Ok.

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If he can't go to jail then strip him of his American Citizenship and exile the bastard for treason. If Donny Boy wants him OUT then let's make his stay outside of prison as uncomfortable as America possibly CAN ! ! Let's make him wish he was IN Jail ! !

Anyone who deceived the public for the years of this investigation should go to jail. That includes Mueller, Comey,Schiff, Pelosi, Clapper, Rice, Brennan and many more. We listened to their show appearances for years and it was all a lie.

Big loser barking!!! Wasted million $$$ and can’t put trump in jail...you should be sued for disappointing Americans!!!! loser

Mueller should be imprisoned for all of his false imprisonments! And suck it,

Convicted felon bcause of a Fake Mueller Probe of a Fake Russian Collusion set up by HillaryClinton

The Capt of a US Navy Ship gets a written Intel Brief & NEGLECTS to READ it, & results in one or more of his crew getting killed ? 'No One Verbally Told Me' BS ain't gonna fly. GAME OVER, CAREER DONE, Pound Rocks In Leavenworth time. RT if its time for Trump to go pound rocks.

Remember when people honestly thought Robert Mueller was going to take Donald Trump out of the White House and throw him in jail? Sad

Trump is the most corrupt President in American history!

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