Roger Stone Blasted For Claiming '90s Concert Photo Was Actually Trump Rally
Source: Huff Post
May 13, 2024, 01:58 PM EDT
Republican operative Roger Stone was slammed on Sunday after he posted a picture of what he claimed was a photo of the supposedly massive crowds at former President Donald Trump’s New Jersey rally on Saturday.
A spokesperson for the city of Wildwood, New Jersey ― where the rally took place ― estimated that as many as 100,000 people showed up to the rally. However, photos and film footage told a different story. Although there was a crowd of people behind the former president when he spoke, the audience in front looked sparse, and got smaller toward the end of his 90-minute speech.
On Sunday, Stone posted a photo of a large crowd and claimed it was from the Trump rally: “Yeah , New Jersey is in play for @realDonaldTrump. Could Joe Biden draw a crowd like this?”
However, people noticed the mountains in the background, which aren’t a part of the topography of the New Jersey shore, and immediately ascertained the photo was fake. In fact, as the community note that was eventually attached to Stone’s post noted, the photo was actually from a 1994 Rod Stewart concert in Rio De Janeiro.
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This image was taken on December 31, 1994 at the Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
It depicts the crowd at a concert by singer-songwriter Rod Stewart in what is known as the world's largest free music concert, with an attendance of over 3.5 million people.
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1:16 PM · May 12, 2024
He belongs in the cell with Navarro.
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America and the world is still paying a price for Stone, Sandy Day O’Conner, James
Baker, Fox News, and Dick Cheney’s a long with others rat fucking of our democracy.
Stone takes joy being a dirt bag. I believe Stone was the one behind getting Al Franken
to resign from the senate. The man is a bag of malignant hog mucus who should be
in prison.
and included that picture! 
Here it is -
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This is a photo from a Rod Stewart concert almost 30 years ago.
“ On December 31, 1994, Rod Stewart performed at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro in front of an estimated 3.5 to 4.2 million people.”
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1:16 PM · May 12, 2024
Published May 13, 2024 at 5:56 AM EDT
By Chloe Mayer
Roger Stone has lashed out after being mocked on social media when he shared a photo that he claimed showed a Donald Trump rally—which was later revealed to be a picture of a Rod Stewart concert. The ally of the former president later suggested his post about Saturday's rally in New Jersey had simply been a joke; he addressed the furor by saying, "Liberals have no sense of humor." The incident comes amid fears that false stories are being circulated online that make it difficult for Americans to know what is real. Just a few weeks ago, Trump was accused of sharing "fake news" on social media by sharing articles that had been heavily edited to remove unfavorable passages about him. For his part, Trump claims it is the media or his rivals who peddle "fake news."
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Taking to X after the true nature of the photograph emerged, Stone shared a summary about the incident created by AI platform Grok, with his own comment saying: "Liberals have no sense of humor. 10,000 people at the New Jersey shore is still 10,000 people. #Trump2024." But his comment on that post was also hit by claims of inaccuracy, this time from his own side, as Trump fans pointed out that news outlets, including Fox News, had actually put the crowd numbers at closer to 100,000 rather than 10,000. Others have questioned the true size of the crowd gathered on the beach in the town of Wildwood. Trump was also mocked after the event for appearing to slur his words during his speech.
Stone did not delete his original post containing the Brazilian image, and it remained online as of early Monday morning. It has been shared over 3,000 times, although many of the 7,000 comments underneath were X users berating him for the falsely-attributed photograph. One wrote: "Ah yes...a vista of the glorious mountains of the Jersey Shore...effing idjit." Another added: "If Jersey looked like that, I'd go more lol."
The Grok summary of the incident, which was shared by Stone, said: "On May 12, 2024, Roget Stone, a political consultant and ally of former President Donald Trump, posted a photo on X claiming it depicted a Trump rally in New Jersey. However, users quickly identified the image as a 1994 Rod Stewart concert in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Despite the correction, Stone did not remove or correct the post, leading to widespread criticism and accusations of dishonesty from X users. The incident sparked a wave of mockery and criticism directed at Stone and Trump, highlighting concerns about the spread of misinformation on social media platforms." The AI model added: "This story is a summary of posts on X and may evolve over time. Grok can make mistakes, verify its outputs."
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12:26 AM · May 13, 2024
It's all how they operate with misinformation. IOW, "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission".
His whole shtick has been as a professional (criminal) troll, along with his buddies (including a former buddy) - Paul Manafort and Lee Atwater.
using social media outlets. Of course his involvement with Russian bad actors is known including the spread of distorted info published by WikiLeaks from the Russian-hacked DNC server back in 2016...
Politics Nov 13, 2019 5:37 PM EDT
WASHINGTON — Republican political operative Roger Stone undermined the effectiveness of the congressional investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by repeatedly and deliberately lying under oath to help Donald Trump’s presidential campaign avoid embarrassment, prosecutors told jurors in closing arguments at his trial Wednesday.
Defense attorneys countered that Stone had done nothing deliberately illegal and claimed the government’s case was built on conjecture, leaps of logic and unreliable witnesses.
Stone, 67, was indicted in January as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian electoral tampering. A veteran Republican political operative and longtime Trump confidant, Stone is accused of lying to lawmakers about his attempts to communicate with the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, tampering with a witness and obstructing a House Intelligence Committee investigation into whether Trump’s Republican presidential campaign coordinated with Russia to tip the 2016 election.
The case is expected to go to the jury on Thursday after about a week of testimony. If convicted, Stone could face up to 20 years in prison.
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He did manage to get a pardon for the above.
He knew that this would be the reaction, and he was right. Some people will never learn. 
It doesn't always say something outright. Instead, it will often use inference and vague language and imagery to make its point. Take this Nazi film still:
You have a picture of doctors who look like they're agonizing over a decision. The text reads: 'Das Leben nur als Last,' and translates to 'Life only as a burden.' Its giving an impression of compassionate care, in words and image. Nowhere does it outright say, in specific words, 'We're about to go all-in on murdering Jews.'
But that's what it is saying, in actuality, because the Nazis created this with the intention of convincing less blood-thirsty German citizens of how killing Jews would be doing the Jews a favour.
Stone, a well-known fascist and propagandist, resorted to a similar technique in his obnoxious tweet, using words and a false image to manipulate people into believing that TSF drew a huge crowd in New Jersey that Biden never could. He doesn't have to use the precise words to convey that very message--and he didn't. He knew exactly what he was doing, and why.
Being too literal-minded makes you vulnerable to propaganda.
Right-wing miscreants from south of the border have been doing that for many years - among all kinds of other fake news.
One of the best-known was, in fact, from a sycophant for Trump's old pal Macri in Argentina.
When Macri took office in late 2015 (since which, it's been downhill almost all the way), one of loudest backers - a notorious plagiarizer - tweeted a supposed photo from a very large and exultant crowd which had gathered to "greet" him.
Except the photo was from a rally in support of the (ill-advised) 1982 invasion of the Falklands - by another disastrous right-wing regime.
They've tried that same trick many times since - as well as gross, Trump-style lies about crowd sizes, etc.
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of the Pine Barrens where Trumpy Smallnuts lost his shoe.
O, Stone, be not so! 
