Trump backs Roger Stone after sentencing
A federal judge on Thursday sentenced President Donald Trump's long-time adviser Roger Stone to three years and four months in prison and said his lies to lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election amounted to a threat to American democracy.
Stone's lawyer had asked that he get no prison time. The 67-year-old Stone, who has been a friend and adviser to Trump for decades, was convicted on Nov. 15 on all seven counts of lying to Congress, obstruction of justice and witness tampering.
Speaking at a graduation ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada at 'Hope for Prisoners', Trump complained that his political enemies, like James Comey, didn't receive the same treatment that Stone did. The president also brushed aside Stone's witness tampering. "It's not like the tampering that I see!" Trump said. "On television, when you watch a movie, that's called tampering. With guns to people's heads, and lots of other things."
