This is one of those times when you seriously wonder if the speaker is blowing smoke or God forbid, have things gotten so bad that a fifth rate con man with a tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back really has federal and supreme court judges in his pocket? It’s a terrifying prospect and one that would have been unthinkable prior to the current political era in which we live. Nowadays, anything goes. We’re talking about a guy who was convicted of obstructing a congressional investigation, making false statements to Congress, and tampering with a witness. The only reason Stone didn’t serve his sentence was because his daughter went on Fox News and piteously begged Donald Trump to pardon him. (And Trump doubtlessly had other reasons besides compassion to do so.) Nevertheless, the pardoned felon has these plans to wreck the 2024 election.

This is Joyce Vance’s analysis.

  • Roger Stone is working on “lawyers, judges, technology” to “use every lever we can” to deliver this election for Trump.
  • “At least this time when they do it, you have a lawyer and a judge — his home phone number standing by — so you can stop it,” Stone says at one point. “We made no preparations last time, none … There are technical, legal steps that we have to take to try and have a more honest election. We’re not there yet, but there’s things that can be done.” 
  • Stone predicts that Judge Aileen Cannon will dismiss the classified documents case against the former president soon. “We are beating them,” Stone tells Sammarco. “[Trump’s] trial in Georgia is falling apart. I think the judge is on the verge of dismissing the charges against him in Florida. They’re delayed in New York City and they’re now delayed in Washington.” Trump has since been convicted in Manhattan.
  • Stone also indicates that the MAGA movement is fully prepared to pull a variety of levers to ensure Trump defeats Biden this November. When Sammarco asks Stone what would stop Trump’s opponents from committing “voter fraud” like “ballot harvesting,” Stone replies that “in some states, it’ll be easier to stop. In other places, it won’t.”  
  • Stone also tells Sammarco that with the RNC under MAGA control, they can spend “lots more” money on election monitoring. He also points to “changes in state law, real-time voter list monitoring, going to court as we just did to challenge some of the vote laws,” and that “we went into court to sue in Michigan over the hand [written] ballots.” 
  • “Don’t think that this is a fight between Republicans and Democrats, liberals, and conservatives. This is nothing less than an epic struggle between good and evil,” Stone says. “A struggle between light and dark, a struggle between the godly and the godless.”

This is very sobering. And it’s part of a decades old problem, that Republicans have trouble winning democratically because so many of their views are unpopullar and that’s why they consistently lose the popular vote. And so you know what that means, they’re not going to change their programs, they’re going to abandon democracy.

As always, our hope lies in turning out the vote in such massive numbers that Stone and his ilk can’t pull any fast ones. This isn’t Florida in 2001 and 500 votes are not at issue. If we can keep a scenario like that from taking place, then we can beat all the dirty tricksters. And make no mistake, they will be out en masse this election.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. stone probably needs to watch his back. while some people might stop and think before taking out a pol or a judge, at least for a little bit, nobody gives a rat’s ass about him.

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  2. If they win, who gonna stop them… judges ain’t. If they lose, old (white) men have nothing to lose & the 1% will have spent a rounding error and FEC is useless. Besides the judges will…. When I say useless, somehow read that 💩-45 took a half billion from his 2020 election into …

  3. Hitler used the LAW, politicians,propaganda, and the desperation of the German people to steal and consolidate power. Sound familiar?

    • Nearly EVERYTHING about Trump’s viral attacks and major whining as in spooky incompetency, he HAS, and continues to replicate the classic norms of Hitler and his band of crooks that controlled ALL media, publications/books that were stacked in street intersections and burned with boosts of troops adding liquid fuels to make the burns overwhelming and frightening … ALL of Hitler’s stunts worked because of the fear on a whole Country-wide control of access to anything other than propaganda-based materials … Large colorful flags, posters and, as needed, public shootings/hangings of free-thinking individuals …

      Hitler’s field brown-shirts were quick to blow-away any groups of deniers and, as for Trump, he is already talking about executions of anyone that does not think of HIM as a God on earth … Scary times with so many GOP members, apparently, dead from the neck up …

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