Greg Sargent observed
It’s almost too perfect that President Trump has now hinted at a pardon for Roger Stone far more explicitly than he ever has before — barely 12 hours after raging at Jim Mattis for accusing him of making “a mockery” of our founding ideals and the Constitution.
Because in so doing, Trump confirmed that Mattis is 100 percent correct.
This isn’t just to say Trump’s intimation of a pardon for his criminal crony itself confirmed Mattis to be right. It’s how Trump did this that’s so remarkable, when juxtaposed with the blistering new criticisms from Mattis, who resigned as defense secretary in 2018.
With no apparent self-awareness or shame of any kind, Trump erupted on Twitter with the words “LAW AND ORDER!” literally minutes after tweeting out his message to Stone:
As Greg points out this illustrates in living color the fact that “Law and Order” has nothing to do with the rule of law. It is a betrayal of that. And he juxtaposes Trump’s fatuous mewling with the word of James Mattis:
Mattis pointed out that the vast majority of protesters are simply demanding that we “live up to our values as people and our values as a nation,” which include “equal justice before the law.”
Trump doesn’t know the meaning of that, and sees himself and his cronies as the true victims of unequal justice despite the fact that they are all crooks and traitors.