{"id":11627,"date":"2019-01-29T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11627"},"modified":"2019-01-29T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T19:51:33","slug":"the-issue-is-not-roger-stones-lurid-personal-life-but-equality-under-the-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-issue-is-not-roger-stones-lurid-personal-life-but-equality-under-the-law\/","title":{"rendered":"The Issue Is Not Roger Stone\u2019s Lurid Personal Life but Equality under the Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issues of special Robert Mueller\u2019s indictment of Roger Stone have nothing to do with his personal life. His sexual habits should be of no concern to anyone. And what is so funny about the Internet jokes about (a still presumed innocent) Stone enjoying rape once he\u2019s in prison?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The issues are instead threefold: One, given that Stone has said so many contradictory things, were his public statements lies and his sworn statements true, vice versa, neither or both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two, why after 21 months, is the special counsel still hounding minor transitory Trump officials (Stone was fired from the Trump campaign way back in August 2015) in hopes of flipping them to find proof of almost anything against Trump? Stone, like all other Americans indicted by Mueller so far, is not charged with any crime close to&nbsp;\u201ccollusion.\u201d We are now well past the descent of this investigation into \u201cshow me the man, and I\u2019ll show the crime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three, the Stone indictment raises real questions of equality under the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/the-issue-is-not-roger-stones-lurid-personal-life-but-equality-under-the-law\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The issues of special Robert Mueller\u2019s indictment of Roger Stone have nothing to do with his personal life. His sexual habits should be of no concern to anyone. And what is so funny about the Internet jokes about (a still presumed innocent) Stone enjoying rape once he\u2019s in prison? 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They often beseeched the federal government for backup when they were unsure of their efforts. Now, in a first, they are more often passive in the face\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11815,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-progressive-anti-semitism-and-why-now\/","url_meta":{"origin":11627,"position":5},"title":"Why Progressive Anti-Semitism \u2014 and Why Now?","author":"victorhanson","date":"May 7, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The\u00a0New York Times International Edition\u00a0recently published an anti-Semitic cartoon of a dachshund with the face of Benjamin Netanyahu. The composite animal was leading a hunched Donald Trump who had on dark sunglasses, as if blind, and a yarmulke. 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