Roger Stone told Newsmax host Rob Finnerty on Monday that his treatment by the Biden-era Department of Justice was shameful and politically motivated, saying he was literally “dragged to the courthouse in shackles.” The longtime Trump ally contrasted his harsh, televised arrest and courtroom restraints with the softer treatment afforded to high-profile figures tied to the other side.
Stone reminded viewers that he and James Comey were accused of the same kind of process crime — lying to Congress — yet the two were handled like two different classes of citizens. He recounted a predawn FBI raid on his Florida home, the seizure of electronic devices, and a gag order that muzzled his defense, arguing the point was not just cruelty but a calculated effort to silence critics of the Russia probe.
Let’s be clear about the record: Stone was convicted in 2019 on charges related to the Mueller investigation and faced a steep sentence that was commuted by President Trump in July 2020, with a full pardon following later that year. Conservative Americans remember those events not as exonerations of wrongdoing but as proof that the justice system was politicized against Trump allies from day one.
Meanwhile, the very people who led the charge against President Trump and his supporters have recently found themselves under the spotlight, with former FBI Director James Comey indicted in late September and New York Attorney General Letitia James charged this month. Those developments raise the obvious question Stone posed: why the double standard, and who decides which Americans get “due process” and which get a spectacle?
Americans who work hard and play by the rules are fed up watching the law bend into a political club wielded by whichever party controls the levers of power. Stone’s case is a glaring example of that hypocrisy — a man treated like a criminal on live television while others received pats on the wrist and polite invitations to turn themselves in.
This moment should wake patriots up: we must demand equal justice under the law, transparency in prosecutions, and an end to the weaponization of the Department of Justice. If the rule of law is to survive, ordinary citizens and prominent figures alike must be treated fairly, and those who used the justice system as a political cudgel must be held accountable by the people they were meant to serve.
