{"id":132048,"date":"2019-11-16T06:01:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T10:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=132048"},"modified":"2019-11-16T06:01:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T10:01:26","slug":"roger-stone-convicted-while-the-pathological-lying-deep-state-co-conspirators-are-conducting-a-soft-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=132048","title":{"rendered":"Roger Stone Convicted While the Pathological Lying <i>Deep State<\/i> Co-Conspirators are Conducting a Soft Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump Questions Roger Stone Verdict as Russia Hoaxers Go Free \u2014 \u2018Didn\u2019t They Lie?\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_132049\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GettyImages-1091946932-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-132049\" class=\"size-full wp-image-132049\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GettyImages-1091946932-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GettyImages-1091946932-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/GettyImages-1091946932-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-132049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Caballero-Reynolds\/AFP\/Getty<\/p><\/div>\n<p>by Charlie Sperling<\/p>\n<p class=\"first-p\">President Donald Trump said that political operative Roger Stone\u2019s jury verdict issued Friday was unfair, pointing to a \u201cdouble standard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come,\u201d Trump wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Roger Stone was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/11\/15\/roger-stone-found-guilty-of-all-7-charges-brought-by-mueller-probe\/\">convicted<\/a>\u00a0of all seven counts brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, including false statements to Congress, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering regarding his contact with WikiLeaks operatives during the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Trump questioned why all of the bureaucrats involved in the Russia hoax such as \u201cCrooked\u201d Hillary Clinton, James Comey, Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, John Brennan, James Clapper, \u2018Shifty\u2019 Adam Schiff, Bruce Ohr, Nellie Ohr, Christopher Steele, and Robert Mueller all remained free, despite what he described as obvious lies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDidn\u2019t they lie?\u201d Trump asked. \u201cA double standard like never seen before in the history of our Country\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So they now convict Roger Stone of lying and want to jail him for many years to come. Well, what about Crooked Hillary, Comey, Strzok, Page, McCabe, Brennan, Clapper, Shifty Schiff, Ohr &amp; Nellie, Steele &amp; all of the others, including even Mueller himself? Didn\u2019t they lie?&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1195389483664990208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;.A double standard like never seen before in the history of our Country?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1195389486659776512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/11\/15\/trump-questions-roger-stone-verdict-russia-hoaxers-go-free-didnt-they-lie\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/11\/15\/trump-questions-roger-stone-verdict-russia-hoaxers-go-free-didnt-they-lie\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Questions Roger Stone Verdict as Russia Hoaxers Go Free \u2014 \u2018Didn\u2019t They Lie?\u2019<\/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-132048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132048","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=132048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132050,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132048\/revisions\/132050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}