A federal judge on Tuesday blasted Roger Stone over his new book that criticizes special counsel Robert Mueller, and demanded Stone explain his efforts to comply with a gag order strictly barring him from bad-mouthing Mueller.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, in a court filing, wrote that there “is no question that the order prohibited and continues to prohibit the defendant from making any public statements, using any medium, concerning the investigation.”
“It does not matter when the defendant may have first formulated the opinions expressed, or when he first put them into words: he may no longer share his views on these particular subjects with the world,” Jackson wrote about Stone, a longtime Republican operative and friend of President Donald Trump.
Jackson rejected Stone’s request that she “clarify” that her gag order on him does not apply to his new book. The judge also chastised Stone’s lawyers for misrepresenting the status of the book, which they now admit is already on sale, despite having told the judge last Friday that its publication was “imminent.”
If Jackson decides that Stone has disobeyed her gag order, she could revoke his $250,000 signature release bond and order him held without bail until his trial on charges of lying to Congress and witness tampering.
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Revoking his bond is the only way this judge is going to get Stone to shut his mouth. He’s another crooked old man used to doing what he wants because he is wealthy. He thinks he is smart and above the law.
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