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‘This is not just Roger being Roger’: Stone gets 40 months – and a scolding from the judge

Amy Berman Jackson tore into Trump’s longtime friend and reminded the court ‘he was prosecuted for covering up for the president’

Roger Stone, a longtime friend of Donald Trump and a self-styled dirty trickster of American politics, showed little emotion as he stood, squeezed between his defense team, at the front of the courtroom to await his sentence on Thursday.

“Unsurprisingly, I have a lot to say,” the federal district court judge Amy Berman Jackson began.

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