..and another one goes down. And rightly so.




"He was not prosecuted for standing up for the president," she said. "He was prosecuted for covering up for the president."

She laced into the defense offered by Stone's attorneys in response to his conviction on charges that he lied to congressional investigators and attempted to block the testimony of a witness, which she said amounted to: "'So what?'"


"Of all the circumstances in this case, that may be the most pernicious," Jackson said, in comments that quickly traveled far beyond the E Barrett Prettyman courthouse in Washington. "The truth still exists, the truth still matters."

"Roger Stone's insistence that it doesn't ... his belligerence, his pride in his own lies, are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the very foundation of our democracy," she said emphatically.


"There was nothing unfair, phony, or disgraceful about the investigation or the prosecution," she said.

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When America was "great"

Edited: 02/20/2020 at 06:19 PM by fishkller