Roger Stone, Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 coup: Is a major bombshell coming?

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Roger Stone, Donald Trump and the Jan. 6 coup: Is a major bombshell coming?
Did the master of Republican "black arts" finally go too far? It may be Roger Stone's time in the barrel at last

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
Columnist


(Salon) If there is one prominent through-line connecting the two most corrupt presidents in U.S. history, Richard Nixon and Donald Trump, it would have to be the person of Roger Stone. The man has been at the heart of every election scandal for the past 50 years and he's still at it, even today. It's quite a legacy for the guy who has Richard Nixon's face tattooed on his back. It's lucky he left his chest clear for his last great cause, Donald Trump. Stone's work on Trump's behalf provides the perfect coda to a legendary career as a political dirty trickster and world-class black-ops conspiracy-monger.

Stone has had his fingerprints on every nefarious deed the Republicans have pulled in the last half century, starting when he was a kid working on Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972, and given the job of spying on rival campaigns and finding devious ways to embarrass them in the press. He has said that during the day he was a scheduler but at night, he was "trafficking in the black arts."

In 1977, at age 24, Stone was elected president of the Young Republicans with the help of his buddy Paul Manafort, after they had reportedly compiled "whip books," or files of personal information, on all 800 delegates to the convention. He went on to work on all of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns doing what he does best. Stone has claimed, for example, that he served as a go-between when Roy Cohn — the infamous mob lawyer and mentor to Donald Trump — got liberal Republican John Anderson on the New York general election ballot as a third-party candidate in 1980, splitting the vote and allowing Reagan to win the state. Stone has hinted that he delivered a suitcase full of money to a lawyer to make that happen.

Stone then teamed up with Manafort, Charlie Black and the infamous Lee Atwater to form a lobbying and consulting firm that became known as "The Torturer's Lobby" for its willingness to represent the world's most infamous dictators, along with such right-wing luminaries as Rupert Murdoch. He worked with Trump for years, as an adviser and lobbyist for his gambling interests and later as manager of Trump's brief campaign for the Reform Party's presidential nomination in 2000.

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Setting aside the unbelievable fatuousness of Stone's proclamation that "we've never cheated," which is deeply absurd coming from him, this pretty well lays conspiracy to overturn the election, three months before it was executed. He knew Trump was behind and likely to lose. The question before the House committee now is whether or not Roger Stone and Donald Trump were plotting this together and whether Stone was colluding with the violent extremists with whom he associated to start the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021. ................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/09/28/roger-stone-donald-and-the-jan-6-coup-is-a-major-bombshell-coming/

[sop]

1. Roger can have his Trump chest tat done in prison.

[alterfurz]

18. better location: just below Tricky Dick

[bucolic_frolic]

2. You don't develop Lenin and Trotsky from Brooks Bros. suit guys

Roger may have had insurrection in his blood, but he didn't have it in his muscles.

[Walleye]

3. He already had his time in the barrel, and his asshole buddy Trump got him out of it

[sarcasmo]

7. No pardons for Stone's 1/6 participation.

Stone was in cahoots with the proud boys and oathkeepers, before, during and after 1/6.

[mahina]

15. Do you think his pardon was for all future acts as well as the crimes committed prior to its writing

? I wouldn’t put it past trump’s desires but don’t think so.

[Walleye]

16. I don't know I don't understand how somebody can be pardoned for crimes they haven't committed yet.

Sounds like a blank check or a license to kill

[dchill]

4. Don't even think Stone is kidding...

... when he talks about the black arts.

[TheRealNorth]

5. When Roger Stone blames "Deep fakes"....

It means that they are actively working on how to use Deep Fakes against Democratic politicians.

[Traildogbob]

6. Maybe HIS

Lilly Livernous will be exposed when his tramp stamp of Nixon is in prison.

[KS Toronado]

8. Hope they share a jail cell.

[generalbetrayus]

11. Nah, in the Federal Supermax prison in Florence, CO, where they both belong,

the cells only hold one person, although maybe the feds would be willing to make an exception in Orange Julius Caesar's case.

[wryter2000]

9. I really want this one to go to prison

For a long enough time to amount to life.

[Cozmo]

10. These guys are just so typically republican

[Aviation Pro]

12. When he's on his way to ADX Montrose nobody will be chanting

"Better Call Stone!"

[Ladythatvotesblue]

13. Everyone knows

...that Stone has a tattoo on his back of Nixon.
I think his next tattoo should be of.... Trump on his ASS.
I hope he ends up in one of those for-Profit prisons!

[Ligyron]

14. GOPers are charged and convicted far, far more than any in Democratic administrations.

Haven't checked it lately but at one point years ago it was like 2 Dems to 67 Repugs. It's fun to break that info out when arguing with GOPer MAGA types.

That and a list of The Dem's and Biden's accomplishments on behalf of ordinary, middle class citizens, like them. Which were opposed in almost all cases by their GOP congress critters.

[trusty elf]

17. Odious character...