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triron

(21,984 posts)
Mon Mar 8, 2021, 03:06 PM Mar 2021

NYTimes: "A man who provided security for Roger Stone on Jan. 6 is arrested..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/us/politics/roger-stone-oath-keepers-jan-6.html

"The man, Robert Minuta, was expected to appear on Monday afternoon in federal court in White Plains, N.Y. to face charges stemming from the siege. The documents containing the specific crimes that Mr. Minuta is said to have committed were not made public in advance of the hearing.

Last month, The New York Times and other media outlets identified Mr. Minuta, who owns a tattoo parlor in upstate New York, as one of six people with ties to the Oath Keepers who guarded Mr. Stone, a close ally and adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, on the morning of Jan. 6 or the day before."

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NYTimes: "A man who provided security for Roger Stone on Jan. 6 is arrested..." (Original Post) triron Mar 2021 OP
Roger Stone, who learned from Roy Cohn. Kid Berwyn Mar 2021 #1
Yikes. That seems to taint a whole lot of people. lagomorph777 Mar 2021 #2
Helps explain a lot of modern history and contemporary culture. Kid Berwyn Mar 2021 #3
Closer... Closer... Blue Owl Mar 2021 #4

Kid Berwyn

(14,789 posts)
1. Roger Stone, who learned from Roy Cohn.
Mon Mar 8, 2021, 03:14 PM
Mar 2021

...Friend of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein...



... Who knew what when? In Palo Alto, after Epstein’s conviction, he was a guest at a dinner for the MIT neuroscientist Ed Boyden that was hosted by LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman. At the same dinner Elon Musk introduced Epstein to Mark Zuckerberg. Is money so powerful that it tramples all other considerations? As James Baldwin put it, “I can’t believe what you say, because I see what you do.”

One of the most remarkable moments in Tyrnauer’s documentary comes near the end, when it’s no longer possible to pretend that Cohn isn’t a liar and a fraud, when it’s no longer possible to deny that he lacks both shame and conscience. When Cohn was about to be disbarred in 1986 for defrauding his clients and for taking advantage of a dying and incompetent man, character witnesses began to emerge. There were letters to the court from William F. Buckley Jr., Barbara Walters, William Safire, and, of course, Trump, who wrote that Cohn “has been extremely loyal and extremely honest.” Were Cohn’s parties—was his protection—really that good?...

Source: https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a29130905/roy-cohn-documentary-wheres-my-roy-cohn/

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