Clips from the documentary "A Storm Foretold" are expected to be featured during this week's January 6 hearing on the Capitol insurrection. Roger Stone, who former President Donald Trump pardoned, told a documentary crew a day just before the 2020 election that he was ready to "get right to the violence."
“Fuck the voting, let’s get right to the violence,” the longtime Trump ally can be heard saying in footage obtained by CNN. “Shoot to kill. See an Antifa? Shoot to kill. Fuck ’em. Done with this bullshit.”
The CNN video footage shows Stone as an early proponent of contesting the election – even before the results were in, which means that violence was a possibility months before January 6.
Via CNN:
In a second clip of the documentary, also obtained by CNN, Stone said that Trump should prematurely claim victory on election night 2020.
“I really do suspect it’ll still be up in the air. When that happens, the key thing to do is to claim victory. Possession is nine tenths of the law, no we won,” Stone said on November 1, 2020, according to the footage.
In another clip, filmed a week after January 6, Stone is seen criticizing the White House Counsel’s Office for what he described as their argument that Trump could not provide preemptive pardons to Stone and others for their alleged involvement in efforts to overturn the election.
“I believe the President is for it. The obstacles are these – are these lily-livered, weak-kneed bureaucrats in the White House Counsel’s Office, and now they must be crushed because they’ve told the President something that’s not true,” Stone says in the clip.
As far back as July 2020, Stone talked about challenging the upcoming presidential election in the courts. “The election will not be normal,” he said.
“Sorry, we’re not accepting them,” he said of the anticipated results. “We’re challenging them in court.”
I can't imagine the other inmates will appreciate Stone in prison. Well, the white supremacist gangs will. Lucky you, Roger.
