Posted on 07/13/2020 9:37:46 AM PDT by be-baw
Roger Stone told Axios in a phone interview that he plans to write and speak for President Trump's re-election now that Stone "won't die in a squalid hellhole of corona-19 virus."
"I'm asthmatic," said Stone, 67. "Sending me to a prison where I could not be socially distanced ... would, I think, be a death sentence."
Stone said he'll continue to follow one of his "Stone's Rules": "I will do anything necessary to elect my candidate, short of breaking the law."
"First, I'm going to write a book about this entire ordeal to, once and for all, put to bed the myth of Russian collusion." I asked Stone about Peter Baker's New York Times analysis saying that in keeping Stone out of prison, Trump crossed a line that even Richard Nixon "in the depths of Watergate dared not cross. ... Nixon resigned ... without using his pardon pen."
Stone replied that the Friday evening commutation — for obstruction, witness tampering and false statements to Congress — shows Trump "has an enormous sense of fairness and justice and mercy."
Stone flatly predicted Trump will win, despite the bleak outlook:
"It'll be a very tough fight. He's got three obstacles: voter fraud ... internet censorship, which I have just recently experienced myself; and, of course, the constant falsehoods being pushed by the corporate-owned mainstream media. Those all make it a difficult race."
"But he is a great campaigner. He's a great communicator." When I asked Stone how he can be so sure Trump will win, he said: "I know more about it than anybody else."
When I asked what he means, Stone cited his campaign work going back to his hero Nixon in 1968: "Who do you know who's been through more presidential campaigns than me?"
Stone said he "had no assurances" about the commutation before Trump called his cellphone Friday evening: "But I had prayed fervently, ... and I believe the whole matter was in God's hands and that God would provide. And He did."
I hope Stone is not suicidal. He has created many deep state enemies and they want him silenced.
Why was Stone tried in DC even though he lives in S Florida? Was it because the prosecutor knew he needed an all Dem politically motivated jury in order to get a conviction?
If you're in a single cell then isn't social distancing pretty much guaranteed?
Regardless, he doesn't need to worry about that now.
I would like for General Flynn to campaign for Trump, but only if he is up to it. Flynn has been through the wringer.
Jury’s still out on Roger. His huckster demeanor might turn some voters off. I could be wrong about that.
“Bad news...very bad news.If Stone wants to do everything he can to help the President in November he should become ABSOLUTELY INVISIBLE until at least November 9th”.
That’s right. He’s a fool to even suggest such a thing.
He was helpful in 2016.
Roger Stone wrote an excellent book In 2017 called “The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution” . It is a very detailed and interesting read. It is probably part of why the leftist media and the Dems went after Roger Stone, and partly as a warning to anyone else contemplating strong support of PDJT
He should be completely invisible on the campaign trail, though. He's a dopey jackass with a big mouth and an ego that got him into a lot of trouble.
Things were just a bit different then.
Trump distanced himself from Stone in 2016.
Stone needs to count his blessings, vote for Trump and end it at that.
Which is why Stone is incapable of being invisible anywhere. Concentrate on his appeal and stay out of the campaign.
He was charged with, among other things, witness intimidation and lying to Congress. Those occurred in D.C. He got tried where the crime was committed.
I agree. Ix-nay to that.
I believe an injustice was done to Stone, but I have never been very comfortable with him. He always struck me as a devious sort and frankly I would rather he is NOT around the campaign.
In many ways, he was acting on his own behalf rather than a surrogate of Trump during the campaign and his “I know something you don’t shtick” is what got us here in the first place. Was it criminal? No. Did it benefit Trump? No.
I am fine with the commutation and think Stone has a good case for a retrial, but I am at a complete loss as to how/why he thinks his presence and showmanship will help the President.
It should have been transferred out.
Change of venue? Why?
He should not have been tried by an all Dem jury on such a politically charged alleged crime.
If these Dem prosecutors had to try their cases outside the beltway there’d be a whole lot fewer such prosecutions.
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