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Convicted criminal Roger Stone is a villain. He has always been criminal.
I'm still weirded out by the fact that he's got a large tattoo of Nixon on his back
Yeah, Stone was one of the original ratfuckers back in the 60's and they've only gotten more dangerous since then :(
Not punishing anyone so "the nation could heal" worked as well for fixing the underlying problems that led to the the Nixon scandal as it did for the Civil War.
That fucker and his Brooks Brothers (Proto-Proud Boys) stole the 2000 election, , and Facebook's VP of Public policy, Joel Kaplan, was one of those rioters.
Man belongs in jail, and would be there if Trump hadn't pardoned him. Jack has to get him.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A video obtained by MSNBC shows Donald Trump’s former political advisor Roger Stone dictating the rationale behind a plan to undermine the certification of Electoral College votes days before the outcome of the 2020 election was announced.
On Monday, Donald Trump and 18 of his associates were indicted in a sprawling RICO case in Georgia alleging that the former president and his allies engaged in a criminal enterprise with the goal of overturning the results of the 2020 election.
While Stone is not a defendant in the indictment, it does mention 30 unnamed unindicted co-conspirators, and focuses heavily on the plot to use fake electors to subvert the results of the vote in key battleground states.
The day before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, where the fake electors scheme came to its violent crescendo, Trump demanded his then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (who was also indicted on Monday) place a call to Stone.
Days before the riot took place, Stone was present during a call where his aide encouraged Trump supporters and allies of the former president to “descend on the Capitol,” on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump pardoned Stone days before his 40 months prison sentence was set to begin, literally freeing him up to aid in his reelection effort.
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What delicious irony would it be if pardoning Stone led directly to a conviction for Trump.
You mean he was taking notes on a criminal conspiracy? Clearly someone didn't watch The Wire.
Original source on MSNBC:
Edit: Skip to 4m 35s for the intro to the video. Video starts at 5m 08s.
Video was taken November 5, 2020 before the election was even called (November 7, 2020). Roger Stone can be seen with an assistant dictating a letter explaining how alternate slates of electors could be used.
Transcribed it as best I could (pauses removed):
Roger Stone (slowly dictating a letter his assistant is seen typing up):
Although state officials in all 50 states must ultimately certify the results of the voting in their state, the final decision as to who the state legislatures authorize be sent to the electoral college is a decision made solely by the legislature.
Any legislative body may decide on the basis of overwhelming evidence of fraud to send electors to the electoral college who accurately reflect the president's legitimately victory in their state which was illegally denied him through fraud.
We must be prepared to lobby our Republican legislatures by personal contact and by demonstrating the overwhelming will of the people in each state that this may need to happen.
Man, I can't stand his smug fucking face. c/punchableface poster child.
Nice "What Would Nixon Do" sticker he's got on his laptop, there...
It goes with the Nixon tattoo he has
So now Trump's RICO indictment can go after him now.
Why is someone allowed to record this? At first I thought it was happening without being noticed, but then the cameraperson moves and even moves again to record the laptop screen. Wtf? Trump is famously all about avoiding a paper trail, so this seems like it would be verboten.
ETA: this is a serious question. Can someone come up with an explanation for why this was allowed to happen?
Roger Stone is definitely on the list of people I would visit if I had a time machine
I make wine. The wine I make is drinkable a couple months after I get it in bottles, but continues to age and improve as it sits. This process should theoretically continue for years, albeit with diminishing returns. I get just shy of 18 one liter bottles from each 5 gallon batch, once loss in bitting is accounted for. I generally drink or give away my full liter bottles within a few months, but recently I've decided to take that short bottle from each batch and just set it aside for a special occasion that may be years down the line.
So far I've got a Chardonnay labelled "Kissinger", a strawberry mint wine labelled "North", a pineapple upside cake wine labelled "Dubya" and soon a peach Moscato rosé labelled "Stone". It's up to their namesakes when the aging process ends, because whenever these people go wherever it is we all go the average decency of the entire earth will improve so drastically that it will be worth celebrating.
It's hard to express how much I love this.
"Break open in case of miracle"
