Let's clarify the lies about Roger Stone

Not surprisingly, the commutation of the sentence of Roger Stone has driven the left stark raving mad. It also has driven them to make statements and comments regarding things that are simply factually incorrect. Whether or not many of these people are even aware of what is and isn't true is of question. After all, liberal pretty much trust EVERYTHING they read these days, all dependent on where they read it.

But let's dig into this:

• No, Roger Stone was not a liaison between Trump and Assange from Wikileaks. The Special Counsel Report is clear that they found no connection what-so-ever between Stone and Assange. What Stone did was contact a person by the name of Jerome Corsi and a radio host named Randy Credico, whom Stone claimed were in contact with Assange. However, the facts are that neither Corsi or Credico personally knew Assange either, and attempts to arrange interviews (for themselves) through other intermediaries never came to fruition. Contrary to popular belief there was no Stone/Assange/Wikileaks connection. There was a friend of a friend of a friend situation that never actually happened. 
• No, Roger Stone was not a liaison between Trump and Guccifer (the supposed Russian hacker). The Special Counsel Report is clear that the closest thing Stone had to a relationship to Guccifer was receiving an email of thanks from someone identifying themselves as Guccifer, after Stone wrote a tweet criticizing Twitter for suspending the Guccifer Twitter account.  There was a couple of other emails from this contact to Stone, one asking something about turnout models, to which Stone replied with a two word reply of "pretty standard". The Special Counsel report was clear that there was no other communications, they could not determine that the emails actually came from anyone responsible for any hacking, and there was no other evidence of Stone reaching out to anyone regarding this.

The underlying truth is that Special Counsel found no actual evidence that Stone was liaison to anyone on behalf of anyone. Stone may have talked big, but there was nothing to his claims, there was no criminal activity, and there was nothing that he was "hiding" regarding much of anything other than failed attempts to garner information. 

There may be an argument that it was politically irresponsible for Stone to be digging around in any of this or making claims of connections, but bravado or politics is not a reason to investigation someone for criminal activity. The portion of the Special Counsel investigation that focused on Stone was worthless and more than a little unreasonable. 

The fact that at a time when people are walking around armed, riots have caused billions in damages, people are being shot and killed, and almost nobody is being arrested or charged with these crimes, it puts an even larger degree of hypocrisy to suggest that this guy should be the one serving time. The discrepancies in his testimonies were not in regards to any communications with Trump, Assange, or Guccifer. There was discrepancies about when and how he communicated with people like Corsi and Credico. Communications that were not illegal or even unethical.

Moreover, at a time when dangerous repeat violent felons are being released from Prison because of Covid, the idea that you would start a prison sentence for a non-violent 67 year old man (with no criminal history) and a history of lung problems is even more irresponsible.  

The truth is that common sense should have carried the day here, and Stone should have been put on a house arrest or even had his sentence dropped to probation. Had prosecutors and judges been reasonable about this (instead of holding political grudges) then the President would not have had to commute his sentence.