A flamboyant right-wing strategist and a filthy confessed trickster will be in the middle of the committee’s latest consultation.
At its hearing on Capitol Hill on Thursday, the Jan. 6 House committee is expected to show Roger Stone, filmed through Danish filmmakers.
According to the Washington Post, the clips will show that Stone “predicted violent clashes with left-wing activists and predicted months before the 2020 vote that [Donald Trump] would use armed guards and unwavering judges to stay in power. “
CNN said it also showed Stone on the eve of Election Day saying, “Fuck voting, let’s jump straight into violence. “
So who is Roger Stone?
A Republican strategist, representative and writer, he is described as an avowed political trickster and longtime adviser to Trump, flamboyant at sewing and swinging, as well as cross-stunts.
Now 70, Stone began as a student volunteer in Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign in 1972, “throwing . . . a sleight of hand” opposed to the Democrats or, in the Nixonian vernacular, “screwing” the president’s warring parties.
Before the fall of Nixon in 1974, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, Stone for the President’s Reelection Committee, or Creep.
After Nixon, Stone, who wears a tattoo of the 37th president on his back, worked with Paul Manafort and Charles Black to create a Washington lobbying firm that flourished in the 1980s, representing clients other corporations might have found unpleasant.
Mobutu Sese Seko, the president of Zaire, one. Donald Trump, another.
Stone pleaded with Trump to flirt with a presidential race in 2000. In the presidential election that same year, Stone played a leading role in preventing a recount in Florida, securing the White House for George W. In the mid-2000s, Stone was worried about the downfall of Eliot Spitzer, a Democratic governor of New York who used prostitutes.
Stone returned to Trump’s side in 2015, when, despite everything, he ran for president. Stone was fired or resigned, but remained in the orbit of Trump, an erratic asteroid that endangered anyone in his path, the crusade and the billionaire’s mandate.
In 2019, Stone charged through Robert Mueller, the special suggests investigating Russian election interference and ties between Trump and Moscow.
Stone was convicted on seven counts of mendacity to Congress, obstruction of justice and witness forgery, in connection with his ties to the Trump crusade and WikiLeaks, which published Democratic emails received through Russian hackers.
In February 2020, prosecutors ordered that Stone be sentenced to between seven and nine years in prison. After Trump tweeted, the Justice Department weighed in and said the advice was too harsh. Four prosecutors resigned in protest.
Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison but never went to jail. In December 2020, amid Trump’s attempt to oppose his electoral defeat to Joe Biden, Trump granted clemency to Stone.
In Trump’s attempt to overturn the election, Stone denies associating with far-right groups, adding Oath Keepers and Proud Boys, around the attack on the Capitol. But last week, such links emerged at the beginning of the Oath Keepers trial. leader Stewart Rhodes for seditious conspiracy.
Randall Eliason, a former federal prosecutor who teaches law at George Washington University, told The Washington Post, “It appears that the prosecution is treating Stone as an unindicted co-conspirator. “
Stone’s resolve to allow documentary filmmakers to stick to him in their efforts for the “Stop the Steal” feature — and got themselves into trouble, in the crosshairs of the Jan. 6 committee and the Justice Department. Summoned to appear before investigators on January 6, Stone continually invoked his Fifth Amendment right opposed to self-incrimination.
Stone teamed up with Michael Flynn, a retired general, former national security adviser and prominent pro-Trump conspirator.
In July, Sean Morales-Doyle, a Brennan Center expert on voting and election rights, told The Guardian Stone that Flynn’s attempts to exercise Republican voters and election observers were “a sham, targeting Array. . . undermine public confidence in our elections and set the stage. “. for long-term attempts to overthrow the will of the people. “