Roger Stone found guilty on all counts, will go to prison for the rest of his life – and Donald Trump will join him
Even as televised House impeachment hearings against Donald Trump were dominating the airwaves today, the verdict was announced in the criminal trial against Trump’s oldest friend Roger Stone. Stone was found guilty on all seven charges, likely ensuring that the sixty-seven year old will spend the rest of his natural lifespan in prison.
Roger Stone has been convicted for several crimes he committed while helping Donald Trump conspire with Russia to rig the 2016 presidential election, even as Donald Trump is being impeached for trying to conspire with Ukraine to rig the 2020 presidential election. Stone has also been convicted for threatening a witness against him, even as Trump publicly threatened an impeachment witness today. The parallels here are striking.
Even as Donald Trump ranted on Twitter about how unfair it is that Roger Stone has been convicted because people like Hillary Clinton and Adam Schiff are somehow the real criminals, there was no indication that Trump might try to pardon Stone. That might not get him very far anyway, because there are surely parallel state charges awaiting Stone on at least some of these counts. After all, there’s a reason Robert Mueller had Stone’s secondary residence in New York raided.
It’s not just that yet another of Donald Trump’s criminal henchmen is now heading to prison for the crimes he committed in Trump’s name. It’s that Roger Stone is heading to prison even as it’s becoming more clear that Trump is on the same path. They’re career criminals who are finally in the process of facing the music. In the end, Stone just couldn’t help himself – and Trump can’t help himself either.
