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In A Field Of Worthy Competitors, GOP Operative Roger Stone May Be The Stupidest Trump Insider Of All*
I don’t discount that Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) is clamoring for top spot.
Shortly after Roger Stone’s January 2019 Indictment, I posted a version of this essay, portions of which are included below. A point of the January 2019 post was that Stone had created an electronic trail of the crimes for which Mueller charged him and of which he was later convicted.
As it turns out, Mr. Stone wasn’t finished creating electronic evidence of his continuing misdeeds. A Danish film crew was following around Mr. Stone, including during the lead up to his trial, for a documentary about the Republican operative. The film, “A Storm Foretold,” will be released later this year. Hot mic captured Gaetz assuring Stone of pardon.
Caught on video and audio was the following:
Stone: “I’m going to go . . . I’ll go down hard though. I’ll fight it right to the bitter end.”
Gaetz: “Yea, but I don’t think you’re going to go down at all at the end of the day.”
Stone: “Well we’ll see. We’re three weeks from trial.”
Gaetz” “Yea, well . . .”
Stone: “I mean, I may have to appeal to the big man, because I’ve got . . . it’s the…