All just a normal part of diplomacy.
As much as I’m sure they are lying about not knowing people in almost comical ways to try to distance themselves, I’m also disturbed by the trend of “proving” that someone knows a person because they took a selfie together. How many shady crooks could find moments to take a selfie with, say Warren on her selfie line, and then later have their activities revealed and use this same method of “proof” of a relationship?
Clay
4845
She clearly was using know in the biblical sense, since everything the administration does is biblical.
I had the same thought, but then noticed in the case of the Trump Crime Family, it usually turns out to be multiple pictures from multiple locations on multiple dates. So that would be a LOT of forward planning from a LOT of people to have photos ready.
Tim_N
4847
That’s true and I had the same thought. This trend, if it exists, goes right back to Sarah Palin with her ‘pallin around with terrorists’.
Make that about 15/85 instead. Yikes!
Timex
4849
Oh man, testifying under oath with cross examination would be amusing.
Oh weird, are they cowards and traitors? All of them?
My surprise is well and truly quelled.
From CNN about the Stone sentencing:
Judge Jackson says that a harsher sentence should apply here, because Stone threatened or intimidated a juror, provided false information to a judge and potentially threatened her.
"“I suppose that I could say Roger Stone didn’t intend to hurt me …it’s just classic bad judgment,” Jackson said, dismissing that idea. "
She continued: “It wasn’t accidental,” adding that Stone used social media to get “the broadest dissemination possible.”
“Incendiary activity is precisely what he’s known for,” she said, noting his friend’s letter to her.
“This is intolerable to the administration of justice. The court should not sit idly by, shrug its shoulders and say, ‘that’s just Roger being Roger,’” Jackson said.
She said, “Defendant’s behavior here” following his arrest was disruptive, in that “we had to waste considerable time” convening hearings, trying to get Stone to comply with court orders “that were clear as day” and to keep people in the courthouse safe.
Meanwhile, Stone is sitting with his eye’s closed, fiddling with a pen and shifting his weight.
Is it wrong of me to want to see him die in prison?
You mean to physically be there to watch? Yeah, that might be wrong :)
Nah, I only need to know where he is buried, for activity later…
He just wants her to get it over with so Trump can pardon him. JUSTICE!
Yeah, I sure hope there is something the state of New York can prosecute him for.
Something something double jeopardy rule.
Menzo
4860
Trump is 100% going to pardon him the day after he’s sentenced.
You think he’ll wait a full day?
