Behalf telling the judge youre a nice person and very sorry and other than that youre great and the judge should be nice to you in the sentencing. And i dont know if all federal judges take these letters seriously when theyre submitted in conjunction with somebodys sentencing but some of them clearly do. And in the case of president Trumps Deputy Campaign Chair who was also the number two official on his inaugural committee, rick gates, it appears the federal judge who sents rick gates today did read all the letters submitted on gates behalf did take them seriously. But the judge in the gates case also did take issue with one assertion that had been made about rick gates in one letter that was sent into the court on his behalf. And that one assertion was something the judge plainly just couldnt abide, and so she called it out in open court in a way that i think maybe gives us our best new idea for a tshirt that could potentially explain the news this week. Heres what the judge said tod
Opportunity to do is to have people submit letters on your behalf telling the judge that, you know, youre a nice person and youre very sorry and those crimes were a total aberration, other than that youre great, and the judge should be nice to you in the sentencing. And i dont know if all federal judges take these letters seriously when theyre submitted in conjunction with somebodys sentencing, but some of them clearly do. And in the case of president Trumps Deputy campaign chair, who was also the number two official on his inaugural committee, rick gates, it appears the federal judge who sentenced rick gates today did read all the letters that were submitted on gatess behalf and she did take them seriously. We at least know that she quoted from them quite liberally when she handed down rick gatess federal sentence today. But the judge in the gates case also did take issue with one assertion that had been made about rick gates in one letter that was sent into the court on his behalf. A