The Lethal Stone Around Trump’s Neck
“He knows I was under tremendous pressure to
Turn on him. It would have eased my situation
Considerably. But I didn’t. They wanted me to
Play Judas. I refused.”
Howard Fineman, (NBC) Tweet: “Just had a long talk with #RogerStone. He says he doesn’t want a pardon (which implies guilt) but a commutation, and says he thinks #Trump will give it to him.” ‘He knows I was under enormous pressure to turn on him. It would have eased my situation considerably. But I didn’t.’
To another observer he said: “They wanted me to play Judas”
(This explicitly confirms Trump’s felonious behavior and perjury to the Mueller Investigation.)
SCOTUS has just confirmed the president is not above the Law, but according to Justin Florence, Trump is saying “Yes I am”.
The Lethal Stone Around Trump’s Neck
Roger was a dangerous Stone around Trump’s neck
Capable of sinking him to great depths
Although under tremendous pressure Stone quipped
He loyally nevertheless never flipped
Stones comments make clear the great centrality
That Stone was protecting Trumps manifest criminality
For Trump obviously lied to the Mueller team
About his knowledge of Stone’s WikiLeaks data scheme
A righteous prosecution according to Barr
In light of Stones guilty counts before the Bar
So Trump rises up in typical paranoid indignation
At the unfairness of Stones prosecution
Horribly treated the whole thing a vicious plot
So, he commutes the sentence with great resolve
Allowing Stone to pursue another trial
As Trump drones on all the while.
All altruism is self-serving has been said
So Trump’s protecting Stone from ending up COVID dead.
Covid Legal scholars are in incensed
For pardoning Stone to protect himself
Surrendering in what seems beyond the pale
To Stone’s implicit blackmail.
SCOTUS recently ruled Trump not beyond the law
But belated reckoning a serious flaw
But just in case any doubts linger
Trump has given the rule of law a great big finger.
But if he loses we will see a move problematic
Of pardoning of self, family and friends in a move most dramatic
With or without resignation so Pence
Can give the pardon and provide Trump’s Mob Family defense.
Howard P. Charman, MD 7-11-2020