This guy was on Mueller’s team of prosecutors and is reacting to the commutation of Stone’s sentence:
Time to put Roger Stone in the grand jury to find out what he knows about Trump but would not tell. Commutation can’t stop that.
— Andrew Weissmann (@AWeissmann_) July 11, 2020
Which raises the question: will a President Biden do that? Or will he leave that to his Attorney General? I would advocate for the latter, as the Executive is not the chief law enforcement officer.
But more importantly, much like President Ford, the next President and their AG will be confronted with an undoubtedly criminal (or possibly criminally insane) former President and his cronies, for whom a sizable part of the population still has loyalty, and will be convinced that the Democrats were, to quote a friend, “out to get [them].”
This will be quite a conundrum. Alienate part of the electorate, or decline to prosecute, thereby legitimizing a number of activities (international blackmail, lying to the nation and to Congress, deliberate crippling of the government, abandonment of allies – among others)?
I’ll vote for the latter, but I’ll understand if there’s a certain hesitancy to go beyond cleaning up the messes left behind by the Trump Administration and its minions in Congress. It’s important to send a message that certain behaviors can never be tolerated. Some of those messages are necessarily sent by the voters, and I hope and expect that a number of Republican Senators, perhaps as many as ten, will fall in the upcoming elections.
That would be the healthy thing to do.
But many of these messages can only be sent in criminal courts. Stone had one delivered, but being the morality-free type, it didn’t bother him. But others, it will, as will the spectators who haven’t signed an oath in blood to remain loyal to the bitter end. As this largely older group of people die off, the bitterness go away, too.
Justice isn’t usually easy.
