So Roger Stone accepted a full pardon. Isn't that an admission of guilt?

[Grasswire2]

And yet he is going to plead the Fifth, his lawyer says.

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News from Stone attorney Grant Smith below:

“Yesterday I sent a letter to the Select Committee on behalf of Mr. Stone advising them that he will be asserting his Fifth Amendment privilege in response to their subpoena.
Ali Dukakis
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3/4 “…. The letter spells out the reasoning, but the assertion of his rights is also necessitated by Congressman Schiff’s comments on CNN that everything the Select Committee receives in the course of their investigation will be provided to the DOJ, as…
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4/4”well as [cmts] by Chairman Thompson on MSNBC where he st ated that he believes people who exercise their constitutional rights have something to hide and are part and parcel guilty of the activity. Their [stmts], are the very reason Stone must take the action he is taking.”
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What exactly is going on here?

His sentence was commuted by Trump.

Then he was pardoned by Trump Dec 23 2020.

See [link:https://abcnews.go.com/US/paul-manafort-roger-stone-charles-kushner-pardoned-trump/story?id=74879785|

Now he's going to plead the fifth to avoid a subpoena.

[choie]

1. The subpoena is for

testimony about the January 6th insurrection. His pardon didn't cover crimes related to that event.

[TreasonousBastard]

2. Stone is having his fun giving the system the finger. While...

there are times I love the idea of giving the finger to thr system, there are times I think of the full fist to Stone.

[UTUSN]

3. K&R

[BigmanPigman]

4. He, like Bannon, are going to get richer off of this.

They aren't afraid, only greedy.