This is the most important sentence in Judge Amy Berman Jackson's sentence of Paul Manafort:
to 73 months in prison , one phrase in her lengthy pre-sentencing comments stood out for me above all the rest.
As she spoke about the context and background for the thinking behind her sentence, discussing the seriousness of the conspiracy and lying and witness tampering that occurred , there was one particular phrase in her remarks that resounded with the hard smack of a gavel on wood:This sentence from Judge Jackson should reverberate far beyond her Washington courtroom.
A president whose Orwellian management style is founded on a premise of never admitting fault and routinely bending facts to suit personal needs.outinely calling"fake news" any fact-based unflattering media. And having an army of acolytes in Congress who never but never call him on such institution-destroying behavior.
Against this sorry landscape of business-as-usual contempt for facts, it was positively invigorating to hear at least one person emphasize that on this day in her courtroom"facts still matter."That in her courtroom people should still have respect for facts. That people should still have respect for truth.Nearly a quarter century of Fortune 500 management experience. Long interested as practitioner in the subject of management, both good and bad, effective and ineffective...
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