On Monday evening, federal prosecutors in the Roger Stone case asked a judge for a nine-year sentence as punishment for his seven felony convictions, including threatening a witness and interfering with a congressional investigation into crimes possibly committed by his friend Donald Trump. But after President Trump wrote a night tweet calling the recommendation “horrible and unfair” while insisting that the “real crimes were on the other side,” the U.S. Justice Department has intervened to ask for a lighter sentence.\n
case asked a judge for a nine-year sentence as punishment for his seven felony convictions, including threatening a witness and interfering with a congressional investigation into crimes possibly committed by his friend. But after President Trump wrote a night tweet calling the recommendation “horrible and unfair” while insisting that the “real crimes were on the other side,” the U.S. Justice Department has intervened to ask for a lighter sentence.
, a different crime friend, who pled guilty to lying to authorities about Russia. Prosecutors initially said they might ask for a real jail sentence of six months in prison but decided last-minute to ask for probation, the same punishment I got for driving 102 miles per hour when the speed limit was 70.
As a child, my mother read me a series of books about ways in which children could, in their own lives, emulate the best qualities of great leaders. For example,Abraham Lincoln , in order to better develop empathy. The Donald Trump edition of that series, should it still exist, might very well be titled. Much like our president spent his formative years taking out loans, never paying them back, and depending on the government to absorb the cost, so should we all. Think of your student loans like
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