Thread by @jennycohn1

“It was Stone who reportedly persuaded Trump to bring…Paul Manafort into the 2016 campaign, & it was Stone who communicated with Wikileaks” b4 it “released emails that Russia had hacked from…Clinton’s campaign chair,” a sort of electronic Watergate.
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“Stone also accused the RNC of attempting to steal the 2016 nomination from Trump, the Democrats of attempting to steal the 2016 general election from Trump, and anyone and everyone of attempting to steal the 2020 presidential election from Trump.” 1/

“It was Stone who coined the phrase ‘Stop the Steal’ in 2016. He deployed it again during the Florida recount in 2018 and yet again in 2020.” 2/

Stone protege Jack Posobiec (second from the left, below) promoted the #StopTheSteal hashtag for years. He deleted those tweets after the violence on January 6, 2021, but the Southern Poverty Law Center archived them. 3/

“Stone protege Ali Alexander, a convicted felon who joined with Stone and Posobiec in protesting the 2018 recount in Florida, has called himself a co-organizer of the January 6 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally for Trump outside the Capitol.” 4/

“During a rally the night before, Alexander led Trump supporters in a chant of ‘Victory or death!’ Alexander had previously tweeted that he was ‘willing to give my life for this fight.’ The chair of the Arizona GOP…quote tweeted Alexander with the message, ‘He is. Are you?’” 5/

Roger Stone protege Ali Alexander had been “convicted of theft & credit card fraud in 2007 & 2008,” as reported in Salon. He was a “McCain campaign staffer in 2007, when he was apparently reprimanded — ironically enough — for discussing opportunities to commit voter fraud…” 6/

Photo in post 6 came from this article by @lukeobrien. 7/ huffpost.com/entry/republic…

The Proud Boys were founded in 2016 and are Roger Stone’s bodyguards. Naturally, they were involved in the events of January 6. cc: @sandibachom 8/

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