He didn’t get it
I wrote a couple of weeks ago that the J6 Committee was planning to go after Roger Stone in the next hearing and I was wrong. They mentioned him almost in passing and that was it. But it appears that they were planning to feature him more heavily and decided against it. Get a load of this:
In new exclusive footage obtained by The Daily Beast, a yet-to-be-released documentary captured Stone’s meltdown after learning on President Joe Biden’s inauguration day that he wouldn’t be granted a second coveted legal protection, this time to shield from any Jan 6 legal fallout. (Trump issued a pardon to Stone in December 2020.)
“Jared Kushner has an IQ of 70. He’s coming to Miami. We will eject him from Miami very quickly; he will be leaving very quickly,” Stone said, while visibly shaking in anger. “Very quickly.”
Stone continued: “He has 100 security guards. I will have 5,000 security guards. You want to fight. Let’s fight. Fuck you.” (The filmmakers remain unsure of who Stone directed this remark towards.)
“Fuck you and your abortionist bitch daughter,” he concluded, referring to Ivanka Trump, according to the filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen who said there was “no doubt” who Stone was ranting about.
According to the filmmakers, the video clip above was one of the few videos hand-selected by the Jan 6th Committee, but, in the end, the committee elected not to play the clip.
I guess they figured that focusing on Stone and the quest for pardons in the last days wasn’t as important as doing a thorough recap of the full story. But it almost certainly would have made Trump very angry. Calling Ivanka an abortionist probably wouldn’t have gone over well.
Danish filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen—part of the team that captured the moment for his upcoming documentary A Storm Foretold—told The Daily Beast that the tense scene was from inauguration day on Jan. 20, 2021, and recorded in Fort Lauderdale.
“Roger Stone has been holding out for a pardon till the very last minute, he had first written up a memo, earlier on, after January 6th, with a plan about encouraging Trump to pardon the lawmakers who had voted against certifying, and Roger Stone, and some of his clients,” Guldbrandsen said.
But he says towards the end of the road, Stone — who was “increasingly frustrated” — pushed for just a pardon for himself and longtime pal Bernard Kerik, the filmmaker said.
Guldbrandsen added that upon Stone learning he wouldn’t receive a pardon on inauguration day, he became “very upset.”
“Aside from Donald Trump, he also held Jared Kusher responsible as being the guy who was the point man on the pardon,” he said.
I guess the question is what did Stone and Kerik do that they were so adamant about getting yet another pardon? (They had both been pardoned by Trump for earlier crimes already.) I don’t know if we’ll ever know but Stone certainly seems to believe he needed one.