Roger Stone conspires on film
Trump-pardoned Roger Stone signaled before the 2020 election that Team Trump planned to bully its way into remaining in power, win or lose. It’s on film.
Mediaite recounts the discussion Monday night on CNN:
CNN obtained and aired a clip from an upcoming documentary called A Storm Foretold by Danish filmmakers who tailed Roger Stone for about two years up to and after the 2020 presidential election. The clip was provided to Stone’s assistant and given to the filmmakers, Don Lemon explained on Monday night.
From a transcript of the Stone clip filmed July 9, 2020:
What they’re assuming is, the election will be normal. The election will not be normal.
“Oh, these are the California results? Sorry, we’re not accepting them! We’re challenging them in court! If the electors show up at the Electoral College, armed guards will throw them out. I’m the president. Fuck you! You’re not stealing Florida. You’re not stealing–I’m challenging all of it. And the judges we’re going to are judges I appointed. Fuck you. You’re not stealing the election.”
That’s basically what Bush did to Gore. So, you know, if they wanna run a bunch of fake ballots, we’ll have an investigation and we’ll say, “These ballots are fake. Your results are invalidated Goodbye.” That’s the way it’s gonna have to work. It’s gonna be really nasty, but we’re not gonna get an honest election.
So, let’s say that Trump is a little behind right now, which he probably is. That doesn’t bother me. But even if he wins an honest election, we’re not gonna have an honest election. They’re stealing this blind in Florida right now. So, you know, it’s not the first time it’s happened in this country. It happens around the world. So, he’s gonna have to fight for the presidency in the courts. Our next election will be decided in the courts because they cheat and we don’t cheat. We’ve never cheated.
Now, there’s some un-self-aware, sociopathic chutzpah.
Stone has convinced himself (as Trump convinced himself and others) to do unto their political opposition what Republicans would do in the same situation: cheat. Stone and Team Trump would do “what Bush did to Gore” in Florida in 2000. The Bushies bullied their way into the White House through intimidation of vote-counters and by leveraging the courts. For anyone who needs reminding, Stone was a player in the Brooks Brothers Riot in Miami-Dade County in 2000. He’d done it before for Bush. He would do it again for Trump.
“We are actually seeing Roger in the middle of a conspiracy, basically,” said documentary filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen. “I mean, that is what it is: a conspiracy to overturn the election.”
Pending newer and dirtier tricks from Stone and Trump, a wider audience will be seeing this clip at the rescheduled House Jan. 6 committee’s public hearing postponed by the arrival of Hurricane Ian.
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