Roger Stone ‘humbly’ apologizes for posting photo of federal judge featuring cross-hairs symbol despite gag order
February 19, 2019
nydailynews.com – By Chris Sommerfeldt – This dirty trick backfired spectacularly. Roger Stone apologized to the federal judge overseeing his criminal case Monday after twice blasting her as an “Obama appointed” partisan and posting and deleting a photo of her face next to what appeared to be a cross-hairs symbol. The embattled confidant to President Trump initially put out the picture of Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Instagram but quickly deleted it after the Daily News reached out and asked about the apparent rifle scope in the upper left hand corner of the image.
Minutes later, the self-described “dirty trickster” of politics posted another version of the photo that cropped out the cross-hairs but still included a caption ripping Jackson as a shill for special counsel Robert Mueller — even though the federal judge had issued a gag order last week barring Stone from making any public statements that could “pose a substantial likelihood of material prejudice to this case.”