A video obtained by MSNBC shows former Trump advisor Roger Stone laying out a plan to subvert the Electoral College before the election was even called
r/TheWire is one of my most missed parts of reddit. Years after the show ended it was still actively "are you taking notes on a criminal mf'n conspiracy?"
Why people don't understand that this is exactly why he was let out of jail is bafling to me. Watch the documentary on the Bush/Gore election of 2000. It's almost a play-by-play of what happened after the 2020 election, but on a smaller scale. The dude needs to be thrown into a non-pardonable hole for the rest of his poisonous existence.
Why is someone allowed to record this? At first I thought it was happening without being noticed, but then the cameraperson moves and even moves again to record the laptop screen. Wtf? Trump is famously all about avoiding a paper trail, so this seems like it would be verboten.
ETA: this is a serious question. Can someone come up with an explanation for why this was allowed to happen?
A video obtained by MSNBC shows Donald Trump’s former political advisor Roger Stone dictating the rationale behind a plan to undermine the certification of Electoral College votes days before the outcome of the 2020 election was announced.
On Monday, Donald Trump and 18 of his associates were indicted in a sprawling RICO case in Georgia alleging that the former president and his allies engaged in a criminal enterprise with the goal of overturning the results of the 2020 election.
While Stone is not a defendant in the indictment, it does mention 30 unnamed unindicted co-conspirators, and focuses heavily on the plot to use fake electors to subvert the results of the vote in key battleground states.
The day before the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, where the fake electors scheme came to its violent crescendo, Trump demanded his then-Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (who was also indicted on Monday) place a call to Stone.
Days before the riot took place, Stone was present during a call where his aide encouraged Trump supporters and allies of the former president to “descend on the Capitol,” on Jan. 6, 2021.
Trump pardoned Stone days before his 40 months prison sentence was set to begin, literally freeing him up to aid in his reelection effort.
I make wine. The wine I make is drinkable a couple months after I get it in bottles, but continues to age and improve as it sits. This process should theoretically continue for years, albeit with diminishing returns. I get just shy of 18 one liter bottles from each 5 gallon batch, once loss in bitting is accounted for. I generally drink or give away my full liter bottles within a few months, but recently I've decided to take that short bottle from each batch and just set it aside for a special occasion that may be years down the line.
So far I've got a Chardonnay labelled "Kissinger", a strawberry mint wine labelled "North", a pineapple upside cake wine labelled "Dubya" and soon a peach Moscato rosé labelled "Stone". It's up to their namesakes when the aging process ends, because whenever these people go wherever it is we all go the average decency of the entire earth will improve so drastically that it will be worth celebrating.