The Roger Stone Case Proves the DOJ Is In Trump’s Pocket
The Department of Justice easing up on Trump’s former campaign ally brings us closer to full-fledged authoritarianism
Just one week after the Senate voted to acquit Donald Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors, America needs to set its tally of “days since a constitutional crisis” back to zero.
On Tuesday afternoon, four federal prosecutors tasked with the prosecution of Roger Stone abruptly asked to withdraw from their role with the case, and one resigned outright from the Department of Justice.
These acts of professional defiance came hours after the DOJ made clear its intention to reduce the seven-to-nine-year sentencing recommendation the prosecutors had made in their case against Stone. And that rollback came approximately 12 hours after President Donald Trump sent out a tweet decrying the Stone prosecution and the harsh sentence proposed by the federal prosecutors as “a horrible and very unfair situation” and a “miscarriage of justice!”
No longer are we on the slow road to authoritarianism. We are on its doorstep.
The president publicly weighing in on a criminal investigation of an individual who worked on his…
