Stone says he won't BEAR FALSE WITNESS against the 'president.'

[elleng]

Not being asked to LIE, jerk, but to tell the truth!

[Sugar Smack]

1. That Tricky Dick.

[duforsure]

2. What he was charged with

Will be easily proven in a court of law, and where facts are used , not propaganda to base a case against someone on. HE's walking down the same path as Manafort , and will end up no matter what trump does spending his remaining life behind bars, then lets see how arrogant he is, and mouthy.

[2naSalit]

3. Interesting phrasing...

"bear false witness"

Ways to interpret that phrase include his proclamation that he won't lie. Okay, that could mean that publicly he's saying he's all over it on the 45 team but when confronted with losing his personal freedom, he's not lying and nobody will know for sure until his transcripts are released (not under seal or redacted to smithereens).

Also, He's throwing red meat to the base of idiot who praise anyone who can use the words from the bible like, "bear false witness" which to them sounds more like he's mr. clean jeans and his piousness is justified because, how could he be evil if he has the best words like those? PR from chapter seven in the cheaters' guide.

I think he could flip and request a gag rule or something but I think he's expecting to get pardoned. Mind you, being pardoned means that he can't take the 5th when he gets subpoenaed later on.


It will be interesting with the timing as to when the regime is removed and making sure they can't pardon anyone before they are out. And I'm not talking them being in office come xmas this year. I think we'll be having them out by the end of summer.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Interesting perspective on Stone and Mr. Mueller here...

No Escape for Roger Stone: Mueller’s Case Is a Slam Dunk and He’s Too Slimy to Get Flipped
Prosecutor who helped convict Dick Cheney aide Scooter Libby for lying and obstruction says the case against Trump’s old pal is virtually perfect.

Link: https://www.thedailybeast.com/no-escape-for-roger-stone-muellers-case-is-a-slam-dunk-and-hes-too-slimy-to-get-flipped?ref=home

(snip)

Finally, do not expect to see Special Counsel Robert Mueller make any attempt to flip Stone and have him cooperate. A defendant like Stone is far more trouble than he is worth to a prosecutor. Stone is too untrustworthy for a prosecutor to ever rely upon. He has told so many documented lies, and bragged so often about his dirty tricks, that he simply has too much baggage to deal with even if here to want to cooperate—which seems unlikely in any event. Mueller, I suspect, would not even be willing to engage in a preliminary debrief with Stone to just test the possibility of cooperation out of concern that Stone would immediately go on television with his pals at Fox News to decry Mueller’s Gestapo tactics.

In short, Mueller does not need Stone to get to someone else and, even if he did, he could not rely on whatever Stone told him. Stone has nothing to sell that Mueller would be interested in buying.

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[2naSalit]

10. That was a thought that occurred to me as well

And it's the most sound scenario given how slimy he is. I like that he probably won't be giving testimony for anything.

This also points to a more expedient outcome, I think. We could be seeing some major movement in the perpwalk department over the next couple weeks or so. Works for me.



Thanks for sharing that article, hadn't seen it yet.

[oberliner]

4. He has already admitted to lying numerous times

So it doesn't seem like bearing false witness has ever been a concern for him before.

[Iggo]

5. Nobody's asking him to lie.

"Is that your voice on this recording?"

[elleng]

6. Exactly,

red herring.

[Blue Owl]

7. Sounds almost biblical...

Old Testament-like...

[DFW]

8. No problem

Just "bear true witness." Not only will that be more than sufficient, it might even reduce your sentence a little.

Like from 150 years down to a mere 75.

[Vinca]

11. No problem. Go directly to jail.