Donald Trump has once again been reminded that his days are numbered — yet another member of his former staff has been ordered to prison!
A federal judge has just rejected a pathetic last attempt by former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos to bypass being sent to federal prison to serve his two-week sentence. Papadopoulos has been sentenced for making false statements to FBI agents about the links between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Today, U.S. District Court Judge Randy Moss ruled that Papadopoulos didn’t have a good enough legal argument to delay the sentence any longer, and delivered a 13-page ruling that basically stated that this whole thing was Papadopoulos’s own fault. When Papadopoulos had made a guilty plea last year, he failed to use it as an opportunity to challenge special counsel Robert Mueller’s authority — and yet he tried to use that to his advantage to save his own a*s.
Judge Moss wrote that Papadopoulos “has failed to demonstrate that the D.C. Circuit is likely to conclude that the appointment of the Special Counsel was unlawful — and, indeed, he has failed even to show that the appeal raises a ‘close question’ that ‘very well could be decided’ against the Special Counsel.”
Moss also lightly mocked Papadopoulos for waiting so long to ask for a delay; Trump’s former lackey had waited until just one business day before he was supposed to turn himself in to begin his sentence. The judge wrote:
If the ‘purpose of [Papadopoulos’s] motion [to continue bail] [is] frustrated,’ he has only his own delay to blame. Papadopoulos has not identified any extenuating circumstances — nor is the Court aware of any — that would overcome the presumption against granting such an eleventh-hour stay.”
This must be terrifying to Trump, as one by one each one of his minions gets sent to jail.
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