Prosecutor says Roger Stone lied 'because the truth looked bad for Donald Trump'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

President Trump’s longtime friend Roger Stone lied to Congress “because the truth looked bad for Donald Trump,” a federal prosecutor said Wednesday at the opening of Stone’s trial on charges he lied to Congress.

Stone’s trial represents the last case filed by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in his probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and prosecutors wasted little time connecting Stone’s alleged crimes to the interests of the Trump campaign.

Minutes into the trial, prosecutors linked the charges against Stone directly to Trump, citing phone records that showed the two talking at key moments.

“We are here today because one man obstructed Congress’s investigation,” prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky told the jury of nine women and three men at the federal courthouse in Washington.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/trial-opens-for-roger-stone-accused-of-lying-about-wikileaks-and-trump-campaigns-interest-in-hacked-2016-democratic-emails/2019/11/06/647bd322-ff2b-11e9-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html?wpisrc=al_news__alert-politics--alert-national&wpmk=1

[BKDem]

1. He also lied because the truth looked bad for him...

...and because lying is all he knows.

[gratuitous]

2. That's a bit of a surprise

I would have thought it would be the defense, not the prosecution, who would justify Stone's lying because the truth looked bad for Donald Trump. Nicely played, Prosecutor Zelinsky.

[Volaris]

3. Nine women, three men...

I suspect at his core, RS is a misygonist. Pretty sure the women on that jury are gonna be smart enough to pick up on that heh.

I have a feeling the hammer is gonna come down HARD. FINALLY.

It couldn't happen to a nicer ratfucker.