{"id":116937,"date":"2019-02-19T14:28:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116937"},"modified":"2019-02-19T14:30:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T18:30:35","slug":"judge-berman-is-in-big-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116937","title":{"rendered":"Judge Berman is in BIG Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Roger Stone Hauled Into Court To Explain &#8216;Death Threat&#8217; Against Judge<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Roger Stone has been ordered to appear in a D.C. courtroom on Thursday\u00a0to explain an Instagram photo of the judge overseeing his case next to what appear to be crosshairs &#8211; in what many interpreted as a veiled threat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/stone%20berman.jpg?itok=HkHMgPc0\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/stone%20berman.jpg?itok=HkHMgPc0\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/stone%20berman.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/stone%20berman.jpg?itok=HkHMgPc0 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"279\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"729a7321-0408-479a-8867-b310a82843f8\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The photo of Jackson is accompanied by a caption which reads: &#8220;Through legal trickery Deep State hitman\u00a0<strong>Robert Mueller has guaranteed that my upcoming show trial is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson<\/strong>\u00a0, an Obama appointed Judge who dismissed the Benghazi charges again [sic] Hillary Clinton and incarcerated Paul Manafort prior to his conviction for any crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson dismissed legal action against Clinton by the parents of two of the four Americans killed in the 2012 Benghazi attack, as well as a related claim that Clinton had defamed the parents by lying about them in the press.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/amy%20berman%20jackson.jpg?itok=ZJJGrQiF\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/amy%20berman%20jackson.jpg?itok=ZJJGrQiF\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/amy%20berman%20jackson.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/amy%20berman%20jackson.jpg?itok=ZJJGrQiF 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"337\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"86cdfab5-c01f-4238-b2b3-c87bf6c031c1\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stone, who was arrested in a January pre-dawn raid at his Florida home in connection with Robert Mueller&#8217;s Russia probe,\u00a0is at risk of losing his bail just days after U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a gag order preventing Stone from saying anything that might bias potential jurors. He was charged with lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW: Judge Amy Berman Jackson has scheduled a &quot;show cause&quot; hearing in the Roger Stone case after his Instagram post yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>She says she wants to see if his post violated the gag order and \/ or his conditions of his release which could be modified or revoked.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tom_Winter\/status\/1097882442457931776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The longtime Trump adviser issued an apology for the post, writing &#8220;Please inform the court that the photograph and comment today was improper and should not have been posted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/stone%20apology1.png?itok=Os1sFIdL\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/stone%20apology1.png?itok=Os1sFIdL\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/stone%20apology1.png\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/stone%20apology1.png?itok=Os1sFIdL 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"619\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"30579a0d-6ad0-418a-92ec-5a1821663912\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stone also posted on Instagram: &#8220;A photo of Judge Jackson posted on my Instagram has been misinterpreted,&#8221; adding &#8220;This was a random photo taken from the internet.\u00a0Any inference that this was meant to somehow threaten the judge or disrespect court is categorically false.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He will have to explain on Thursday how his post did not violate his gag order.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-19\/roger-stone-hauled-court-explain-death-threat-against-judge\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-02-19\/roger-stone-hauled-court-explain-death-threat-against-judge<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Stone Hauled Into Court To Explain &#8216;Death Threat&#8217; Against Judge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}