{"id":8636,"date":"2019-11-16T04:20:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T12:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=8636"},"modified":"2019-11-16T04:20:58","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T12:20:58","slug":"roger-stone-is-convicted-of-impeding-investigators-in-a-bid-to-protect-trump-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=8636","title":{"rendered":"“Roger Stone Is Convicted of Impeding Investigators in a Bid to Protect Trump”, The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sharon LaFraniere<\/span> and Zach Montague, Nov.15, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, obstructed one of Congress\u2019s Russia investigations and lied to lawmakers.<\/em><\/p>\n

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WASHINGTON \u2014 For decades, Roger J. Stone Jr. played politics as a kind of performance art, starring himself as a professional lord of mischief, as a friend once called him. He tossed bombs and spun tales from the political periphery with no real reckoning, burnishing a reputation as a dirty trickster.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, a reckoning arrived, the consequence of his efforts to sabotage a congressional investigation that threatened his longtime friend President Trump.<\/p>\n

Mr. Stone, 67, was convicted in federal court of seven felonies for obstructing the congressional inquiry, lying to investigators under oath and trying to block the testimony of a witness whose account would have exposed his lies. Jurors deliberated for a little over seven hours before convicting him on all counts. Together, the charges carry a maximum prison term of 50 years.\"Roger<\/p>\n

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Roger J. Stone Jr. was found guilty on Friday of obstructing a congressional inquiry into Russia\u2019s 2016 election interference.<\/span>Credit…<\/span>Doug Mills\/The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

In a last-minute bid for salvation, prosecutors said, Mr. Stone appealed to Mr. Trump for a pardon on Thursday, using a right-wing conspiracy theorist who runs the website Infowars as his proxy. Mr. Trump attacked the guilty verdict against Mr. Stone in a tweet<\/a> on Friday but made no mention of a pardon.<\/p>\n

To some friends, Mr. Stone\u2019s fatal flaw was that he did not know when the time for gamesmanship was over. \u201cThe only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about,\u201d he liked to say. But that mantra seemed to ring hollow as Mr. Stone, forced to stand in silence, heard a courtroom deputy read the word \u201cguilty\u201d seven times.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n