{"id":116980,"date":"2019-02-20T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116980"},"modified":"2019-02-20T07:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T11:26:38","slug":"roger-stone-hauled-into-court-to-explain-death-threat-against-judge-zerohedge-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=116980","title":{"rendered":"Roger Stone is unjustly persecuted again by Judge Amy Berman Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Roger Stone Ordered to Court to Explain Instagram Post Criticizing Judge<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_116981\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-1090898718-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116981\" class=\"wp-image-116981 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-1090898718-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-1090898718-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/GettyImages-1090898718-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-116981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Zach Gibson\/Getty Images, @rogerjstonejr\/Instagram<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>by Joshua Caplan<br \/>\nBreitbart.com<\/p>\n<h2>A federal judge on Tuesday morning ordered longtime political operative Roger Stone to appear\u00a0in Washington, D.C., courthouse Thursday to explain his now-deleted Instagram post which was critical\u00a0of\u00a0her.<\/h2>\n<p>On Monday, Stone apologized to\u00a0U.S. District Judge\u00a0Amy Berman Jackson, who is presiding over his criminal case, for the post featuring a photo of her next to a logo similar to the crosshairs of a gun.<\/p>\n<div id=\"powr_1\" class=\"a8d padok\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"powr_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/player.powr.com\/iframe.html?account=100010177&amp;player=743&amp;domain=breitbart.com&amp;terms=stone%20post%20roger%20ordered%20court%20judge%20explain%20instagram&amp;uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F02%2F19%2Fstone-ordered-to-court-post-judge%2F&amp;c=1550661700137\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThrough legal trickery Deep State hitman Robert Mueller has guaranteed that my upcoming show trial is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointed Judge who dismissed the Benghazi charges again\u00a0Hillary Clinton\u00a0and incarcerated\u00a0Paul Manafort\u00a0prior to his conviction for any crime,\u201d the post read.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/dmartosko\/status\/1097582558307586048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1097582558307586048&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F02%2F19%2Fstone-ordered-to-court-post-judge%2F<\/p>\n<p>In a statement to ABC, Stone\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/roger-stone-summoned-explain-instagram-post-judge\/story?id=61164935\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">said<\/a>: \u201cI will be present for the hearing as ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Monday, Stone posted a photo of Jackson with what appeared to be crosshairs near her head. He later said that the picture had been \u201cmisinterpreted\u201d and that any suggestion he intended to threaten Jackson was \u201ccategorically false.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/DHBerman\/status\/1097648882165735424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1097648882165735424&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.breitbart.com%2Fpolitics%2F2019%2F02%2F19%2Fstone-ordered-to-court-post-judge%2F<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, Berman ordered a limited gag order for Stone as part of special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s case against the Trump ally. \u201cCounsel for the parties and the witnesses must refrain from making statements to the media or in public settings that pose a substantial likelihood of material prejudice to this case,\u201d Jackson said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A federal judge has imposed a limited gag order over Roger Stone&#39;s case, ordering attorneys for all sides not to make statements in public that may bias potential jurors, but barring the defendant himself, Stone, only from making such statements near the DC federal courthouse. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rMG48c9Wvf\">pic.twitter.com\/rMG48c9Wvf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Spencer Hsu (@hsu_spencer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hsu_spencer\/status\/1096499246738690049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Further, the judge ordered attorneys and potential witnesses to stop commenting to the media when entering and exiting the courthouse where Stone\u2019s trial will be held later this summer or fall.<\/p>\n<p>Stone is charged with lying to Congress, obstruction and witness tampering related to discussions he had during the 2016 election about WikiLeaks.<\/p>\n<p>He has denied guilt.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/19\/stone-ordered-to-court-post-judge\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/19\/stone-ordered-to-court-post-judge\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roger Stone Ordered to Court to Explain Instagram Post Criticizing 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-116980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116980","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=116980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}