1. Tuesday’s Elections Affected By Supreme Court Ruling What You Need To Know: Tomorrow there will be runoff elections in the states of Alabama and Texas. The state of Maine will also hold state primary elections. 2. Quid Pro Quo As Donald Trump Commutes Longtime Friend Roger Stone’s Prison Sentence What You Need To Know: […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, was sentenced to more than three years in prison Thursday for obstructing a congressional investigation in a case that has sparked fears about presidential interference in the justice system. Soon after Judge Amy Berman Jackson pronounced sentence, Trump publicly decried Stone’s conviction as […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump loyalist and ally Roger Stone was sentenced Thursday to 40 months in federal prison, following an extraordinary move by Attorney General William Barr to back off his Justice Department’s original sentencing recommendation. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said Stone’s crimes demanded a significant time behind bars, but she said […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats frustrated over the Senate’s acquittal of President Donald Trump are pushing their oversight efforts toward the Justice Department and what they call Attorney General William Barr’s efforts to politicize federal law enforcement. Democrats have demanded more information about Barr’s intervention in the case of Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant […]
O.J. Simpson has been keeping a low profile since he was released from prison last year but when TMZ caught up with him on Tuesday, he wasted no time weighing in on a political hot topic: Donald Trump. Simpson and Trump were friends back in the 80s and early 90s and OJ claims “he was a fun guy” but […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, was arrested Friday morning in the special counsel’s Russia investigation and was charged with lying to Congress and obstructing the probe. The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed “dirty trickster,” is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller and provides […]
