Friday Reads Frog March Edition: Roger Stone Indicted and Arrested
Posted: January 25, 2019 Filed under: Live Blog, morning reads | Tags: Frog March, Roger Stone 45 CommentsGood News Sky Dancers!
Another domino on the way to knocking KKKremln Caligula straight to Leavenworth has fallen. This will be a mostly live blog but please add whatever you want down thread. The biggest thrill is paragraph 12. Remember that number! But, let’s just start with something that shows he’s still the Nixon CREEP boy. and bagman at heart.
https://twitter.com/AmandaMarcotte/status/1088785599677587458
The fun thing is that CNN got to film the entire thing!!! And this their lede: “Mueller indicts Roger Stone, says he was coordinating with Trump officials about WikiLeaks’ stolen emails.”
The indictment’s wording does not say who on the campaign knew about Stone’s quest, but makes clear it was multiple people. This is the first time prosecutors have alleged they know of additional people close to the President who worked with Stone as he sought out WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
“After the July 22, 2016, release of stolen (Democratic National Committee) emails by Organization 1, a senior Trump Campaign official was directed to contact STONE about any additional releases and what other damaging information Organization 1 had regarding the Clinton Campaign. STONE thereafter told the Trump Campaign about potential future releases of damaging material by Organization 1,” prosecutors wrote.The indictment also says: “During the summer of 2016, STONE spoke to senior Trump Campaign officials about Organization 1 and information it might have had that would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign. STONE was contacted by senior Trump Campaign officials to inquire about future releases by Organization 1.”Stone was arrested by the FBI Friday morning at his home in Florida, his lawyer tells CNN. He was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia on seven counts, including one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements, and one count of witness tampering.
And about that paragraph 12 and other things from Axios. It’s all pretty amazing. And who is that Senior Trump Campaign official?Key points of the indictment regarding the Trump campaign:
Stone allegedly told senior Trump campaign officials by June or July of 2016 that he had information about Wikileaks planning to leak information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton. The DNC email leak happened on July 22.
After the DNC emails, a senior Trump campaign official was allegedly instructed to ask Stone about any future Wikileaks dumps or if Wikileaks had any other damaging information on Clinton’s campaign. Stone then allegedly told them about potential future releases.
- Stone then allegedly told the Trump campaign about potential future Wikileaks releases impacting the Clinton campaign.
- Between late July and early August, Stone allegedly repeatedly emailed with an undisclosed political commentator, who would later be interviewed by investigators, to obtain information from Wikileaks’ head Julian Assange about future leaks. It was shortly after that Stone publicly claimed to have spoken with Assange and to know the timing of the next leak.
- Around October 3, 2016, Stone allegedly wrote to “a supporter involved with the Trump Campaign” in regards to the expected Wikileaks dump: “Spoke to my friend in London last night. The payload is still coming.”
- After the release of Podesta’s emails in October, an associate of “the high-ranking Trump Campaign official” allegedly sent Stone a text which read, “well done.”
- Stone allegedly lied to House investigators about his communications with Wikileaks and Trump officials. He also attempted to persuade an undisclosed witness, described as “a radio host who had known Stone for more than a decade” to withhold information from the investigations, per the indictment.
I think we have enough to get us started!!! I’m going to add more on other things down thread because there’s all kinds of things happening due to the shutdown including issues at LaGuardia due to lack of Air Traffic Controllers.
Let’s discuss!!!
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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort expected in court to confront special counsel’s allegations of lying
https://abcnews.go.com/beta-story-container/Politics/trump-campaign-chairman-paul-manafort-expected-court-confront/story?id=60607783
It’s a nest of vipers, they only think in ‘attack mode’ and have no ability to stay honest or do ‘good’
Was wondering when things like this would hit critical mass. They can ignore unpaid workers not being able to buy food, but shutting down airports is harder to ignore. But then Trump likes breaking things.
The rest of the world is appalled except for Putin who is laughing.
My sister is in Patagonia. I’m wondering if she’ll get back to Seattle.
Trump had to open the government up. These airport closing was a kicking him in his fat arse.
“Nothing to do with Trump. Nothing to do with us. He barely knew Stone.”
covfefe and hamberder guy
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/01/trump-adoption-same-sex-couples-jews-miracle-mill.html?fbclid=IwAR3vaRnXKfsWHke7NMVleu48b8dhTRe_gyDznn7uUob_9R20xe6VJGOxuHQ
This is like the DeVos family xtian baby mills filled by forced birth states
The Trump Administration Will Let Adoption Agencies Turn Away Jews and Same-Sex Couples. Thank SCOTUS.
Taxpayer money going to support a particular religion and discriminate against all others. The Founding Fathers are rolling over in their graves again.
completely disgusting …
This is a point I’ve been trying to hammer since forever.
Rights have dependencies, logical ones, inescapable ones. For instance, if you have no freedom of movement it doesn’t matter whether you also have a right to go to the place of worship of your choice.
Freedom of religion is one of those *dependent* rights. If it’s treated as primary, then there’s nothing to stop my religion from being demolishing your religion. Who “wins” that argument is just a matter of who has more power. You’re back to might makes right and no real rights at all.
Given that there’s all of about two steps to disaster, I’m not sure why it’s so hard for religionists to grasp that point. Maybe because they’re only really after power.
In the above example it’s the lack of separation of church from state that I see as the problem.
That happens *because* people don’t understand that freedom of religion has to be dependent on the more basic civil freedoms coming first.
And, as I say, given that it’s all of two steps to disaster, makes you wonder why that’s so hard to grasp for the biblethumpers.
Oh, I see now what you are talking about. It’s hard for me to grasp the idea that freedom of religion could supercede basic civil freedoms! Those fundie wingnuts make no sense.
Not a day – not one single day since this administration was sworn in – has there NOT been a scandal.
Imagine – not a single day has gone by since January 20, 2017 – that someone or something has not been revealed to be an embarrassment.
So many now happening at once that leaves one’s head spinning.
You can barely keep up.
WORST.PRESIDENT.EVER
They weren’t trying only to *acquire* dirt. They were producing it and throwing it in great disgusting globs.
So they have emails about the scheming to spread lies about Clinton. In black and white. That makes me furious.
But that clip of Stone’s arrest makes me so so so happy. I hate that guy X 1,000,000.
The twin Nixon and Trump tattoos is the funniest thing all day!
IKR???!!?? hahahahahaha
So it looks like Trump is about to surrender.
https://twitter.com/ManInTheHoody/status/1088816731383054336
LOL! Nancy is QUEEN!
Nancy The BOSS of Bosses! Capo di Tutti Capi.
McConnell must have caved too. This sounds like the same deal the House approved and the Senate passed by a voice vote before the shutdown, and then which McConnell wouldn’t bring to a vote.
Well, it was starting to affect air travel, y’know.
Senators don’t like their air travel affected.
Public disapproval of President Trump has swelled five points to 58 percent over three months as a majority of Americans continue to hold him and congressional Republicans most responsible for the partial federal government shutdown, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
In addition, more than 1 in 5 Americans say they have been personally inconvenienced by the record-long shutdown, which reached the five-week mark Friday amid reports of turmoil at airports, slowdowns at the Internal Revenue Service and growing public pain as 800,000 federal workers, and many government contractors, go without pay.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/poll-majority-of-americans-hold-trump-and-republicans-responsible-for-shutdown/2019/01/25/e7a2e7b8-20b0-11e9-9145-3f74070bbdb9_story.html?utm_term=.389e02e72ffc
Thank you Rep. Schiff!
Excellent news.
Go Nancy…………walking them dogs.
Some bad news.
And still like dust we rise.
We rise to fight another day.
This was a particularly delicious takedown of Roger Stone today by a never-Trump Republican strategist: https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-welcome-to-the-barrel-cosplaying-supervillain-meets-robert-muellers-real-life-feds?ref=home
I am so tired of saying “WTAF” about the Trump administration.
https://twitter.com/RuthHHopkins/status/1088983874380726273
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