Capitol Police Investigating Roger Stone Remarks About Assassinating Members of Congress

[Nevilledog]

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/new-capitol-police-investigating-roger-stone-remarks-about-assassinating-members-of-congress/

The Capitol Police are investigating remarks made by pro-Trump political operative Roger Stone discussing the assassination of two prominent House Democrats. A source told Mediaite the FBI is aiding with the investigation.

Last week, Mediaite published an audio recording of the comments, which were made weeks before the 2020 election in a conversation between Stone and his associate, former NYPD cop Sal Greco, about Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Eric Swalwell (D-CA).

“It’s time to do it,” Stone told Greco. “Let’s go find Swalwell. It’s time to do it. Then we’ll see how brave the rest of them are. It’s time to do it. It’s either Swalwell or Nadler has to die before the election. They need to get the message. Let’s go find Swalwell and get this over with. I’m just not putting up with this shit anymore.”

In a new statement to Mediaite, Swalwell said the comments should be taken seriously by both law enforcement and Congress:

The Roger Stone assassination plot recording may seem like the ravings of a wannabe gangster. It’s not. This is what Trump and his real-life thugs do: they try to intimidate opponents and will always choose violence over voting. Because I’m one of Trump’s loudest critics, Stone put a hit out on me. This threat, and other threats of violence by Trump and his supporters, must be taken seriously by not only law enforcement but also by my colleagues. Both parties, not just Democrats, must condemn this violence. Unity will always be the best antidote against further violence.

Finally, Stone said that I and Trump’s enemies need to ‘get the message.’ Well, I and the voters have a message for Stone and Trump: we are still here and we are not going away until we bury MAGAism and make sure America’s democracy endures.

*snip*

[Walleye]

1. Trump will never condemn the violence done by his fans. He should be called out on that every interview, but never

They let him get away with saying stand back and stand by.

[Roy Rolling]

37. Negotiation 101

The way to corner weasels like Trump is to link him to every statement by his followers, as if they came out of Trump’s mouth itself.

Those are the rules of the game. Make Donny Douchebag endorse/support every crazy statement made by his fans. His fans and him are one and the same.

Declare the rules of the game before he tries to declare the words of his fans are not his words—but we know they’re one and the same. Every interview should challenge reporters to craftily block Trump from using this dodge and render the tactic powerless.

Dems de rules. 😉

[Quakerfriend]

2. Capitol police???! How about the DOJ???

[GuppyGal]

5. Where is the FBI????

[ShazzieB]

32. They're inolved.

From the op:

A source told Mediaite the FBI is aiding with the investigation.

[Mr. Evil]

14. I just read this and had the exact same thought.

Not to mention, where's the FBI and the Secret Service?

[Bev54]

24. The FBI are helping Capitol Police, read in other outlets.

[Mr. Evil]

29. Thanx for the heads up!

[ShazzieB]

31. From the article...

A source told Mediaite the FBI is aiding with the investigation.

[Botany]

3. Stone needs to be charged with something for threatening to and plotting to murder 2 Congressmen.

The man has been a cancer on America and democracy since Nixon. Remember the Brooks Brothers
riot stopping the count of votes in Florida in 2000?

[Marthe48]

4. Yep john roberts aided the installation of bush in the White House

and look where he is now.

[Botany]

6. As did Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Island in stopping the counting of the legitimate vote in Florida 2000

And that got us 9-11, wars in Afghanistan & Iraq, Ohio 2004, Dick Cheney and Halliburton,
Justices Roberts & Alito, the outing of Val Plame, the Big Branch coal mine explosions, and
all the other shit that came from w’s I’ll gotten Presidency. Including citizens United. Which
got us Trump. (All that Russian NRA money, disinformation, and elocution hacking)

Voting and counting the legitimate vote is just a bother to “those people.” Dwight Eisenhower,
Gov. Ray Shafer of Pa, Mark Hatfield, Eve Dirksen, and Margaret Chase Smith are long gone.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. hanging chadds my eye.

[Botany]

9. More like removing 50 to 90,000 black voters from the voting rolls in Florida prior to the 2000 election ...

… caused the election to be close enough so as that hanging chads could be blamed.

The mother fuckers cheat end of story.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. yeppers.

cheat ., lie . steal. distract. go sputter sputt sputt. they hide behind the flag. the constitution and when cornered come out swinging. like orange dunkoff .

[flying_wahini]

18. What they have been doing in Harris County ( Houston) with Gov Abbott's help

And Ken Paxton.
This from last summer

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/22/harris-county-elections-official-november-2023/

We can’t win in Texas with this cheating going on.

[Botany]

19. The Sec. of State (?) in TX bragged that in 2020 Biden would have won if they hadn't held down ...

… the mail in vote. In Ohio the. Congressional races/districts are over before the 1st vote
is cast thanx to gerrymandering. Btw the GOP has the majority in the House because of
Gerrymandering right now.

We have to overwhelm them with votes this fall to overcome their cheat factor. Abortion
should drive a lot of blue votes in 2024,

[ProfessorGAC]

34. The Cheating Is So Baked In...

...that I still believe that was the biggest driver of their angst over TFG losing in '20.
They thought they had cheated enough to cinch it.
Given cheating is their M.O., they just assumed Dems had to have cheated better.
The fact that their ideas aren't popular enough & they aren't as clever as they think, would never cross their mind.

[Marthe48]

12. I could cry or stay mad

I'll stay mad

I bet all of us who lived through the last 40 years could add our own memories to your extensive list. Never forget!

[ShazzieB]

33. I'm confused.

As did Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Island in stopping the counting of the legitimate vote in Florida 2000

Say what?

[AllaN01Bear]

7. t,,, needs to be arrested for directly threataning biden twice

[republianmushroom]

10. A little late, maybe ?

[Bev54]

25. ???? They just heard the tape, you expect them to know it before? How?

[republianmushroom]

27. More than three years ago, was there any investigation of stone until now ?

[Bev54]

35. I would bet there is most definitely an investigation of

The ratfcker, especially after they found that pardon in his desk drawer and his association with domestic terrorists and Russian operatives. He has not been left out but this taped threat has just come to light, which is being investigated separati.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Is this what happened to Sen. Paul Wellstone?

The liberal Democrat was one of the leading opponent to Bush's illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous war on Iraq.

Then, he wasn't. And soooo many voted along with Bush, it hurts to type.

[oldsoftie]

21. Dont be one of those people. There was a VOR problem that was verified after the fact.

The trumpers are the conspiracy people. Imagine if HE died. It would have to be a fall in public or they'd totally lose their minds about how "they" got him

[Kid Berwyn]

23. I think the pilots knew where they were.

I do remember CNN's reporter on the ground said the weather was not a problem, and that another aircraft had not reported icing, and the plane suddenly stalled on final approach. I also remember Wolf Blitzer at the time continually talked over the reporter who was on site to insist that the crash was weather-related.

https://www.oocities.org/wellstonecrash/scoop.html

Later on it was reported the pilot had all manner of drug problems, bad pilot reviews, etc., and that Sen. Ted Kennedy had been scheduled to join Wellstone's party on the flight. The co-pilot was one of the witnesses at the Minnesota flight school who reported flight student Zaccarias Moussaoui had shown keen interest in learning to fly a 747 to a specific point using GPS, but expressed no interest in taking off or landing.

https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/JohnJudge/linkscopy/PWcopilot.html

I don't know if Wellstone was murdered. But, I do know it sure was a convenient he no longer was in the US Senate to oppose Bush and his rush to war.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

15. Initially read "wannabe gangster" as "wardrobe gangster". It fits. . . . . nt

[orangecrush]

16. GOOD

[Autumn]

17. The capital police? Does the DOJ still exist? What about the FBI? I would think threats

against our elected leaders would fall into their laps.

[Bev54]

26. Capitol Police is likely the right LE and they are being assisted by FBI

[Hekate]

20. To quote Stone himself, "It's time to do it."

My gods that thing is lower than slime mold.

[oldsoftie]

22. Prosecute this POS. nt

[SpankMe]

28. Things would be different if this was a Dem

If the Orange Asshole® was in office and a Dem said this about Repub officeholders, that Dem operative would be in jail and headed toward indictment by now.

Assholes like Stone will claim "free speech", and that what they were saying was aspirational or metaphorical but not an actual threat.

Even if anyone was stupid enough to buy this excuse, saying stuff like that encourages rogue agents to try to carry it out. I'd like to see Stone in solitary. The worst thing you can do is deprive him of an audience.

[Evolve Dammit]

30. time for the lock in a sock treatment for this asshole. LOCK HIM UP!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. Good

[Blue Owl]

38. What's to investigate, really?

He said it, it's on tape, case closed.... Seems pretty black & white to me. Even if his henchmen didn't follow through with physical action, Roger Stone is a stochastic murderer.....