Roger Stone used Instagram Stories to violate his federal gag order yet again, lmao

On one cold Friday morning in January, furloughed FBI agents – who had to volunteer for the job – raided Roger Stone’s Florida home. They knocked on the door and arrested him (a grand jury had indicted him) and they gathered up a “voluminous” amount of incriminating evidence. Roger Stone is an old-school Nixon-era dirty trickster and con man of the highest order. He was also one of the go-betweens for Donald Trump and Wikileaks. In the past month, Roger Stone has been in and out of court on motion hearings. In February, the judge in his case placed Stone under a gag order because he wouldn’t shut up about the court case, and he was targeting the judge on social media. It was a gigantic mess and an utter soap opera. Well, this is just funny at this point – Roger Stone once again broke his gag order, and now Robert Mueller went to the judge to tell her (again) about… Roger Stone’s Instagram. He’s literally doing it for the ‘gram.

Special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday notified a federal judge about an Instagram post by President Donald Trump’s friend Roger Stone that could be in violation of the judge’s strict gag order on Stone. The filing by Mueller cited CNBC’s story on Sunday detailing the post by Stone, which contained an image of him under the words “Who framed Roger Stone.” Mueller did not ask Judge Amy Berman Jackson to find that Stone broke her gag order.

Stone, 66, is barred from criticizing Mueller’s team of prosecutors under the gag imposed Feb. 21 after the longtime Republican operative posted an Instagram image of Jackson’s face next to a rifle scope’s crosshair. Stone, a self-described “dirty trickster,” told Jackson during a court hearing on that post that it was an “egregious, stupid mistake” and said “I am hurtfully sorry for my own stupidity.” At the same Feb. 21 hearing, the judge warned him: “Today, I gave you a second chance. This is not baseball, you don’t get a third chance.”

If Jackson finds that Stone, who is currently free on a $250,000 signature bond, violated that order, she could have him jailed without bail pending his trial on charges of lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstructing justice. Stone on Sunday deleted the “Who framed Roger Stone” image from a series of other rotating images on his Instagram story shortly after CNBC sent an email to his lawyer asking about it.

The other images suggested that people donate to Stone’s legal defense fund, with one saying, “I am committed to proving my innocence. But I need your help,” and another saying, “I’ve always had Trump’s back. Will you have mine?”

[From CNBC]

A 66-year-old man is really using INSTAGRAM to criticize the federal judge in his court case. He’s using IG Stories!!! OMFG. It would be like Christmas all over again if Judge Amy Berman Jackson was like “I can’t with this, I’m revoking your bond and you have to sit in jail for a year just so you’ll get off Instagram.” Please let it happen. Also: is someone on Mueller’s team assigned to watch Roger Stone’s social media? LMAO.

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