New documentary footage shows Roger Stone working behind the scenes to overturn 2020 election, seek pardons after Jan. 6 riot
“Stone used an encrypted messaging app later in January to communicate with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who is also charged with seditious conspiracy, and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, the footage shows.”
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This is the single most important article I’ve seen to date showing Trump did not coordinate 1/6. Stone bashes Trump, his family and lawyers once the 1/6 day arrives and he realizes Trump and the WH are not going along with he and the oathkeepers.
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“The filmmakers did not capture conversations between Stone and Trump, but on several occasions, Stone told them or his associates that he remained in contact with the president.”
A few hours before the Jan. 6 attack, the video shows, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers group — who has since pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy — was in Stone’s suite at the Willard. Other rooms in the same hotel were used as a “command center” by Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and other advisers involved in the fractious battle to overturn the election. Stone was not part of their effort, the footage indicates, and he said he feared that top organizers were trying to exclude him from the rally.
Stone did not permit the filmmakers to record him for a 90-minute period covering the height of the violence on Jan. 6. A Stone aide blocked a cameraman from entering his hotel suite, claiming that Stone was napping, the cameraman said. When he eventually got inside, Stone was speaking on his phone.
After he left Washington, Stone lobbied for Trump to enact the “Stone Plan” — a blanket presidential pardon to shield himself,
Trump’s allies in Congress and “the America First movement” from prosecution for trying to overturn the election, according to the footage and additional documents reviewed by The Post.
“Clearly, Cipollone f—ed everybody,” Stone told Steven Brown, a friend then in federal prison in Oregon for a fraud conviction, during a call on Jan. 19, 2021. Cipollone was aware of Stone’s requests for pardons and opposed them,
according to a person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential matters.
“See you in prison,” Stone wrote that evening in a message to another Trump associate.
In an Inauguration Day call with a friend, Stone directed his rage at the man who had confided in him and consulted with him for decades, denouncing Trump as “a disgrace” and expressing support for him to be impeached. “He betrayed everybody,” Stone said.
Early on Jan. 6, as thousands gathered on the Ellipse just south of the White House, Stone tended to a side business: helping felons get requests for pardons on Trump’s desk before he left office. Stone’s activity was part of a bustling market at the time, in which well-connected lobbyists, lawyers and others brokered large fees to seek clemency for their clients.
In his Willard suite, away from the camera but still wearing a mic, Stone spoke on the phone with a man representing someone named Henry. The man said they were “willing to pay up to $100,000,” but stressed: “Everything would have to be legal.”
Back in Florida, Stone lobbied for the Stone Plan, which called for Trump to preemptively pardon Republicans including Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), all of whom tried on Jan. 6 to delay or block the certification of Biden’s victory.
At home on Inauguration Day, wearing a microphone but out of view, Stone ranted to Alejandro about Kushner, whom he also blamed for his plan’s failure. Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, had recently bought a $32 million lot on Indian Creek Island, a gated village in Biscayne Bay off Miami, and rented a condo nearby.
“In two weeks he’s moving to Miami,” Stone told Alejandro, before whispering: “He’s going to get a beating. He needs to have a beating. And needs to be told, ‘This time we’re just beating you. Next time we’re killing you.’ ”
Aware the filmmakers were nearby, Alejandro urged Stone to say he was joking. “No, no, it isn’t joking. Not joking. It’s not a joke,” Stone replied.
And Stone unloaded on Donald Trump, saying he had betrayed his friends, deserved to be impeached and was the “greatest single mistake in American history.”
Stone added that Trump might be vulnerable to prosecution by federal authorities in Manhattan after declining to preemptively pardon himself.
“A good, long sentence in prison will give him a chance to think about it, because the Southern District is coming for him, and he did nothing,” Stone said.
This article is a great indication that DOJ is getting to the bottom of 1/6.
Stone was working for someone, but it was not Trump.
not sure what to think of this but CIP was he a lawyer in the white house ?? if that is whom Roger was talking of .. never trusted him either ..
Wait … WHAT???
Ahh, scrolled up to see the source is the Washington Toilet Paper Post. I’ll try to keep it in chronological order …
— “…and he realizes Trump and the WH are not going along with *he* and the oathkeepers.”
“he and the oathkeepers”. Seriously? Was this written by a third-grader?
This blares out to anyone who is proficient in the English language which should include true, traditional journalists of days gone by, not the present day useful idiot talking head sheep, that it doesn’t matter if they lie and it doesn’t matter how it’s presented. It’s little cues like this that screams “propaganda”. This is like fingernails on the chalk board.
The picture of Stone in a room with a guy that has a shoulder holster is “evidence”? It’s like the pictures of “victims” in Ukraine whose pictures just happened to be found on the interwebz archives of victims from years-old conflicts of the past. This picture could be years old. Doesn’t prove anything.
— “Stone was not part of their effort, the footage indicates, and he said he feared that top organizers were trying to exclude him from the rally.”
Huh? That may be a justification for an eight-year-old to have a tantrum if they can’t go to the parade. Prepping to set the stage for the propaganda? This is the limited brain activity of an emotional (the true meaning of an ’emo’), ignorant, idealistic, brainwashed left soy-boy or girl tool, and their perception is no surprise. OTOH, it *might* be attributed to optics on Stone’s part. Consider that?
— “A Stone aide blocked a cameraman from entering his hotel suite, claiming that Stone was napping, the cameraman said. When he eventually got inside, Stone was speaking on his phone.”
Sure he was. What does that have to do with the cOnSpIrAcY tHeOrY? Filler for the assignment? Or just word vomit like this whole vomit salad is?
— ““Clearly, Cipollone f—ed everybody,” Stone told Steven Brown, a friend then in federal prison in Oregon for a fraud conviction, during a call on Jan. 19, 2021. Cipollone was aware of Stone’s requests for pardons and opposed them, according to a person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential matters.”
Steve Brown, convicted of fraud. That’s a really great character to use as evidence. *sarcasm*
So is this: “according to a person familiar with the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential matters.” Riiiiight. Anonymous. *yep – sarcasm*
This is wearing me out so I’ll end it for now.
I want to make this clear: I can be undecided about what position Roger Stone has on his lifelong friend and what transpired J6 and later but I’ll be damned to let some turd emo from the Toilet Paper Post sway me to their way of thinking. Never. Happen.
EVERYTHING from that propaganda rag is seriously suspect, waaaay more than Roger Stone is.
ps. The investigation on President Trump by the rabid tool NYC AG has fallen apart. They keep grasping at straws and they keep failing. No surprise here.
NCSWIC
As usual, you’ve provided a good analysis of what appears to be a smear piece. WaPo, indeed is not fit for bathroom use.