I hope to put something together about the others soon. Jacob Engels is caught up in the Joel Greenberg scandal. 6/
Engels is a fake journalist (fake bc he has no good faith interest in the truth) who reported that Greenberg’s political opponent had been accused of molesting a student. Turns out that the accusation came from a letter sent by Greenberg himself who pretended to be a student. 7/
13/ I remember a video or other post with a photo stating that Matt Gaetz claimed to have been recruited by Stone. Anyone else remember that? @gal_suburban
19/ I think it’s probably safe to call Enrique Tarrio (head of the Proud Boys, which were founded in 2016 - nice timing) a Roger Stone protege or close associate as well.
22/ The image of Gilllum passed out with his clothes off proved real, & Gillum has since said he is bisexual. But it sure seemed like Gillum was set up. Did someone drug him to make him pass out? How’d Engels get the photo?
23/ Alex Jones & Mike Cernovich are part of Roger Stone’s circle too.
32/ Roger Stone “has asserted that…he delivered an apparent bribe to a leader of NY’s Liberal Party in 1980 to arrange the endorsement of independent candidate John Anderson, who then siphoned off 7.5% of the vote & opened the way for Reagan to carry NY.” consortiumnews.com/2015/01/28/how…
33/ “Stone described the transaction in a 2007 article by Matt Labash in The Weekly Standard, with Stone noting that he was speaking only after the statute of limitation on bribery had run.”
37/ This bizarre post by Randy Credico re: Stone & Andrew Miller is intriguing. What is he referring to? Money laundering? Something involving Stone’s pal, the DC Madam? @emlas
"Trump’s chief strategist, Steve Bannon, and longtime confidant Roger Stone coordinated with Ailes to monitor and undermine the ousted Fox chief’s perceived adversaries." 45/ h/t @CheriJacobuspolitico.com/magazine/story…
According to @RogerWants, who has been trying to expose Roger Stone for about ten years, Stone initially created these fake accounts around 2011, when Stone was again promoting Trump for President. (Stone had also promoted Trump’s 2000 run.) 51/
“Investigators from former special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation told a judge that…Roger Stone orchestrated hundreds of fake Facebook accounts and bloggers to run a political influence scheme on social media in 2016…” 52/ cnn.com/2020/04/28/pol…
54/ Dangit. I read last night that Roger Stone is the one who taught Trump to use social media as a weapon back in 2011 when Trump considered a run for President. I forgot to copy down the exact quote & link. If anyone can find it, pls share. Thanks!
55/ Stone falsely accused Ds of trying to steal the 2000 election (after a faulty purge handed Bush his “win”) & orchestrated the Brooks Brothers riot to stop the manual recount > 16k votes were found to have been erroneously deleted from Gore’s total that year.
56/ Stone then accused Rs of trying to steal the nomination from Trump in 2016 & deployed some alt right goons to intimidate the delegates at the RNC convention. Stone coined “Stop the Steal” for the 2016 general election in case Trump lost. He rolled it out again in 2020.
57/ Stone has been tight with the Proud Boys since their inception in 2016, as documented by @RogerWants.
58/ I’ve seen no direct evidence that Roger created the Proud Boys (Gavin McInnes is the official founder), but it is plausible & should be investigated. Technically, the thugs who assisted Stone at the 2016 convention were the alt right. Were the “alt right” early Proud Boys?
59/ Great sleuthing by @RogerWants. Recall that Richard Spencer founded the “alt right.” He has said he favors “peaceful ethnic cleansing.” “Alt right” was essentially a rebranding of “nazism” (kinder, gentler nazis in khakis). Are the Proud Boys a rebranding of the “alt right”?
60/ The idea being that the Proud Boys are “alt light” because, unlike the alt right (Richard Spencer’s gang), they don’t throw Nazi salutes in public.
61/ Roger Stone’s peeps: “Proud Boys Founder Recorded Video Titled '10 Things I Hate About The Jews' in 2017” newsweek.com/proud-boys-fou…
62/ The “10 Things I Hate About Jews” video was published by Rebel Media where Stone protege Jack Posobiec briefly worked (Posobiec left after Rebel Media said he had plagiarized some material). splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020…
63/ Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec introduced Richard Spencer at a Willard Hotel event in September 2016. (What is up with the Willard?)
3/ In 2000, Stone “claimed to have obtained the frequencies of walkie-talkies that Democrats were using to communicate so he could listen in on their plans. He has also claimed that he was first to learn about Eliot Spitzer’s affairs with call girls… cnn.com/2016/04/19/pol…
I’m looking into Roger Stone tonight bc his deposition is tomorrow (though he will plead the 5th). This is Interesting re: the shady Roger Stone PAC that supported Trump’s presidential aspirations in 2011. 1/ politico.com/blogs/ben-smit…
The article mentions Lynn Krogh. Does anyone know if she’s related to Egil (Bud) Krogh of Watergate infamy? 2/
Trump-installed Post Master General Louis DeJoy (who donated $700k to Trump’s convention) slowed vote by mail, so voters used drop boxes, so the GOP has decided to drastically curtail drop boxes. Get it? 1/
The #FreedomToVoteAct wld provide a needed remedy to voters who have been improperly purged from voter rolls (remember the bogus purge in 2000 & hacked voter registration systems in 2016?) by allowing Election Day registration & requiring that states offer provisional ballots. 1/
2/ The bogus voter purge in 2000 improperly removed up to 12k voters from the rolls in the decisive state of Florida, which Bush won by only 537 votes. Rs have embraced broad purges ever since.
3/ Remember??? Thirty-seven states “reported finding traces of the hackers in various systems…In two others -- Florida and California -- those traces were found in systems run by a private contractor managing critical election systems.” 6/13/17 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
It’s been more than 20 years since a faulty felon list caused the state of Florida to erroneously purge up to 12,023 voters in a presidential election that Bush won by only 537 votes in the Sunshine State. The GOP has embraced broad voter purges ever since. 1/
The #FreedomToVoteAct would curb such abuse by providing specific criteria that must be met before removing voters from the voter rolls (failure to return a postcard won’t suffice unless it’s returned as undeliverable) & implementing automatic & same day voter registration. 2/
The screenshot in post 1 is an excerpt from my draft book. 3/