Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, handed down Roger Stone's sentence today: 40 months.  That's 40 months longer than anything done to James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Hillary Clinton, James Clapper, or the other Deep State actors, but it's significantly less than the 7–9 years Mueller's rabid crew sought for him.  To offset the more lenient sentence, Jackson went on an anti-Trump rant. Roger Stone is not an appealing character, but even unappealing characters can get railroaded.  The broad outlines of what happened are that James Comey inveigled Trump into appointing Robert Mueller as an "independent prosecutor" charged with investigating whether Trump conspired with Russia to win the election; that Mueller and his attack dogs knew within days of beginning the investigation that the foundational accusations were lies; that the Mueller team nevertheless dragged the investigation out for two years and $35...(Read Full Post)