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Dude. Where are all the manly man leaders of the maga groups? The women told them to do it?
(link) https://hillreporter.com/far-right-groups-now-blaming-each-other-for-capitol-violence-105853
Claims in this piece:
1. Dishonest Democrats are trying to suggest Stone was involved in the planning of the attack.
2. Women for America First helped set him up by using his name as a speaker.
3. No one ever showed up to escort Stone to the event, though he was supposed to speak.
Now, this third one is a particularly interesting claim, because in June, we covered Stone himself telling a different story.
“I never even left the grounds of the Willard Hotel. I came out in front of the hotel in the moring for a brief period to stretch my legs. You can watch the entire video. A number of patriots come up and ask for selfies…but no, I was not even on the Capitol. I do find it odd that shortly after the President’s speech, the Secret Service contacted someone who worked for me by phone and told me that they wanted to escort me to the Capitol. I declined…I’m sorry, I declined, I was with Pastor Mark Burns and Reverend Randy Coggins in my suite, watching the whole thing unfold on television.”
Claims in that statement:
1. Stone was contacted to be escorted to the events.
2. He seems to suggest he already had plans that involved not attending.
So, which is true? Did Roger Stone plan to spend Insurrection Day in his hotel suite with friends, or did he intend to attend? Was an escort offered, or no?
Now here’s part 2 from Ali, who is still talking about the article by Davis, and claims that it ‘exposes’ Women for America First as “an astroturf group of grifters” who are guilty of “setting up” “patriots” and “trashed the instructions” that “patriots” apparently needed in order to know not to enter the Capitol Building with weapons and assault police.
1. Dishonest Democrats are trying to suggest Stone was involved in the planning of the attack.
2. Women for America First helped set him up by using his name as a speaker.
3. No one ever showed up to escort Stone to the event, though he was supposed to speak.
Now, this third one is a particularly interesting claim, because in June, we covered Stone himself telling a different story.
“I never even left the grounds of the Willard Hotel. I came out in front of the hotel in the moring for a brief period to stretch my legs. You can watch the entire video. A number of patriots come up and ask for selfies…but no, I was not even on the Capitol. I do find it odd that shortly after the President’s speech, the Secret Service contacted someone who worked for me by phone and told me that they wanted to escort me to the Capitol. I declined…I’m sorry, I declined, I was with Pastor Mark Burns and Reverend Randy Coggins in my suite, watching the whole thing unfold on television.”
Claims in that statement:
1. Stone was contacted to be escorted to the events.
2. He seems to suggest he already had plans that involved not attending.
So, which is true? Did Roger Stone plan to spend Insurrection Day in his hotel suite with friends, or did he intend to attend? Was an escort offered, or no?
Now here’s part 2 from Ali, who is still talking about the article by Davis, and claims that it ‘exposes’ Women for America First as “an astroturf group of grifters” who are guilty of “setting up” “patriots” and “trashed the instructions” that “patriots” apparently needed in order to know not to enter the Capitol Building with weapons and assault police.
- more at link -
A lot of gaslighting is going on ... we need game-day programs to keep all of this straight.
