If it was a “witch hunt,” then as my preacher says “the truth shall set you free.” Problem? Stone repeatedly didn’t tell the truth and threatened other people in the process. We have laws for reasons. You break them there’s a penalty. IMO, the president has a moral obligation to stay out of cases where he was somehow involved, and certainly out of cases that involve friends he’s had for decades. I doubt the president has read up on Stone’s entire case file... and if he has, and is willing to weigh in publicly as he already, then he illustrating the favoritism he extends to his friends as I’m confident he’s not reading over ever case file coming out of the DoJ.
I disagree. What brought Stone into the dock was that he was supposedly shilling for wikileaks/Assange and was a critical link in 'proving' what we now know as the Russia collusion hoax. Have any of those contentions been proven? No, it has all been process crimes that were an outgrowth of the illicit prosecution. He is responsible for his behavior once he was thrown in the briar patch, but as a private citizen caught in the gears he should be given something well under the maximum penalties. You should pay more attention to the Flynn prosecution, which is part and parcel the same FBI strategy. How can extorting a guilty plea to a process crime using the ruining of the man's finances and those of his family with bottomless budget sequential prosecution driven by a partisan agenda be considered justice? Don't we hear about this same sort of abuse being perpetrated on many other people, usually people of color with diminished resources, by prosecutors of all stripes?
It seems you can go in two directions, but not both at the same time. You can either 'glory' in the fact that even people of means such as Stone and Flynn cannot escape determined, targeted prosecution of dubious provenance, or you can be terrified of it. On path leads to Jacobins and The Terror, the other to innocent until proven guilty and the need for there to be actual crimes already alleged before being dragged into the grinder. The core concept of recognizing something as a witch hunt is - were there any witches found? Could there ever be?