The fact Stone is a “convicted felon” (by the way, in the English language one does not typically capitalize every letter of a word) is evidence of a conspiracy against him. It’s clear jurors were not struck who should’ve been, likely some jurors lied to get on the jury, the judge rejected every motion Stone’s lawyers followed, she’s a political appointee of the previous administration which illegally spies on the Trump campaign. A lot of dirty stuff here.
Yes, there is.
Stone’s lawyers were fully aware of Ms. Hart’s comments and records, and passed on the opportunity to challenge her.
So the only argument Stone has for a retrial is an incompetent defense. Which, under the circumstances, seems like the sort of thing that Stone and his lawyers would concoct for future use in a feigned outrage media campaign like this. It is vintage Stone.
That play won’t work. He won’t get a new trial.
But that’s not the real play here.
This is a noise campaign designed to get the Trumpsters to attack the process (again), and believe that Stone is “victim” of an imaginary “deep state” conspiracy. This is the kind of idiotic garbage that Trump’s supporters lap up like catnip.
This is all an orchestrated campaign.
First, Trump bellows out loud to his base that he wants his “Roy Cohn” off the hook.
Then Barr plays innocent by making pubic statements that suggest that he is at odds with Trump, and Trump’s openly unconstitutional behavior.
Almost immediately, the Trump team launched this campaign against the jury, and thus the integrity of the Stone trial.
The Trumpster audience is already primed to reject ANY sentence that Amy Berman Jackson hands down. Trump has attacked the judge, attacked the jury, and claimed, without any evidence at all, that the whole process is unfair that that Stone, one of the sleaziest operatives in US history, should get a get out of jail free card.
Much of this is Trump trying his new super constitutional authority on for size. Now that the Republican Senate has essentially blessed his absolute power, he’s going to use it.
This clears the way (in the Trumpsters’ empty heads) for Trump to be “justified” in pardoning a man so obviously and openly guilty.
Don’t be under the illusion that the Trump team, or Stone’s lawyers didn’t have this juror’s record and her social media posts before the trial even started.
This is a campaign that they’ve obviously had in the hopper for a long time.