"The truth still exists," U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said on Thursday. "The truth still matters." She spoke at the sentencing hearing for Roger Stone, career ratfucker and longtime confidante of one Donald Trump. Stone had already been convicted on charges of lying to Congress and witness tampering related to his attempted coverup of his ratfucking activities on Trump's behalf in 2016. "Roger Stone’s insistence that it doesn’t," Jackson continued, still referring to the truth, "his belligerence, his pride in his own lies are a threat to our most fundamental institutions, to the foundations of our democracy. If it goes unpunished, it will not be a victory for one party or another. Everyone loses."