“As a member of President Richard M. Nixon’s Committee to Re-Elect the President, better known as CREEP, Stone helped recruit a young operative to spy on a group of Quakers who had set up a peace vigil in front of the Nixon White House.” 1/ washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
2/ Stone “admitted to Congress that he faked a contribution from the Young Socialist Alliance to… a Republican who in 1972 was mounting a challenge to Nixon in the NH primary.” Stone then sent the receipt to the media. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
3/ “Stone did not merely engage in dirty tricks; in 1972, the then-19-year-old Stone was assigned by CREEP official Herbert ‘Bart’ Porter to recruit a spy to penetrate the campaigns of Democratic presidential hopefuls.”
4/ “The secret Nixon agent, Michael W. McMinoway, introduced himself successively into the campaigns of Edmund Muskie, Hubert Humphrey and George McGovern. Stone became his case officer, receiving intelligence from McMinoway via a post office box in Washington.”
5/ “We are all innocent until proved otherwise, but Stone long ago gleefully admitted his guilt as an avid saboteur of our democracy.”
6/ Stone has acknowledged that, in 1980, mob lawyer Roy Cohn had him deliver an apparent cash bribe (Stone didn’t look in the suitcase) to the Liberal Party of NY to persuade them to run a sham candidate to siphon votes from Jimmy Carter in New York. washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standar… 
7/ Roy Cohn is dead is dead btw. I shld have said, “now deceased mob lawyer,” but it wouldn’t fit. Cohn was a mentor of both Stone & Trump. He introduced them.
8/ During the eighties and nineties, Stone partnered with Paul Manafort in a lobbying business known as the Torturers’ Lobby for its willingness to represent brutal dictators, including then President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines. washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/…
9/ In 1986, then President Marcos (Stone and Manafort’s client) called for a snap election that was reportedly rigged to ensure a Marcos victory. This resulted in a Revolution. Oops. latimes.com/archives/la-xp…
10/ A pollster who went to the Philippines w/ CBS News, said a “representative of Manafort’s firm had asked him, ‘What sort of margin might make a Marcos victory legitimate?’ The implication was clear...How do we rig this thing [the 1986 election] & still satisfy the Americans?”
11/ In 2000, per Stone’s own account, it was Stone who coordinated the manufactured (not grass roots) Brooks Brothers riot that stopped the manual recount in Florida during the US presidential election that year, securing George W. Bush’s victory by just 537 votes.
12/ In 2000, Stone worried that Buchanan would siphon votes from Bush, so he spread a rumor that Buchanan had fathered an “illegitimate” baby. It might have been true. I don’t know. He will spread rumors whether true or not.
13/ In 2000, Stone also got Trump to pretend he was going to oppose Buchanan in the Reform party. Trump then took down Buchanan by calling him a Nazi and such. Trump never did run that year.
14/ I wrote about Stone’s misconduct in the 2000 election (and how Bush rewarded him for it) here. jennycohn1.medium.com/the-2000-u-s-p…
15/ In 2006, Stone and one of his protégés, Mike Caputo (who got his start as Stone’s driver), worked for a Ukrainian politician believed to have ordered the beheading of a journalist. Putin later awarded the politician the Order of Friendship.
16/ Lytvyn was the politician. Stone’s work for Lytvyn is discussed here. washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standar…
17/ Caputo’s work for Lytvyn is discussed here. washingtonmonthly.com/2017/05/21/who…
19/ Naturally, Putin gave Lytvyn (Stone and Caputo’s former client) the Order of Friendship.
20/ In 2016, it was Roger Stone who “ushered then-candidate Trump into the fringy netherworld of Internet conspiracy enthusiasts and far-right activists by arranging for him to appear on ‘Infowars’” washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/…
21/ Stone acknowledges that he recommended that Trump hire Manafort as his campaign manager for the 2016 election. thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-co…
23/ By then, Manafort had worked for years representing Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska who claimed that Manafort owed him $20 M. Manafort had also represented former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
24/ Yanukovych currently lives in Russia in exile. He fled Ukraine during a Revolution that occurred after state police shot and killed protesters of his regime. I wrote about Manafort and the Ukraine situation here. jennycohn1.medium.com/whats-all-the-…
25/ Trump had the gall to run with the “drain the swamp” slogan when it was largely Stone & Manafort who had practically invented the DC swamp culture with their old lobbying firm in the first place.
26/ “The partners [Stone & Manafort] have been criticized by some fellow consultants for their brand of influence-peddling: first electing clients to office, then lobbying them.” - 1986 washingtonpost.com/archive/lifest…
27/ “‘We were controversial,’ Stone recalled with a shrug and a grin. ‘Yeah, I helped Arlen Specter get elected, and yeah, I lobbied Arlen Specter. So what?’” 11/29/18 #StoneBuiltTheSwamp washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/…
28/ Did I mention that Trump was one of Stone’s earliest clients at his swampy lobbying firm? Yep. Trump is a swamp creature too.
29/ Roger Stone attended the 2016 Republican National Convention with the Alex Jones/InfoWars crew.
30/ Future Proud Boys “big shot” Joe Biggs—who is currently sitting in jail awaiting trial for his alleged involvement in the January 6 assault on the Capitol—attended the 2016 RNC as an InfoWars “reporter.” At that point, however, the Proud Boys did not yet exist.
31/ Here’s a link to a video where he and Alex Jones led a chant of “Hillary for Prison” outside the 2016 RNC.
32/ In another since deleted video from the 2016 RNC, Biggs bragged about assaulting Gregory Johnson, who was burning an American flag outside the RNC, as was Johnson’s First Amendment right per a landmark free speech case decided by the Supreme Court in Johnson’s favor in 1989.
33/ Biggs, a supposed proponent of “free speech,” rushed to “attack [Johnson]. Jumping a police line, he ripped the man’s shirt off and ‘started pounding,’ [Biggs] boasted that night in an online video…” nytimes.com/2021/03/14/us/…
34/ Meanwhile, Stone threatened to send “Trump supporters” to the delegates’ rooms if they tried to “steal” the nomination from Trump.
35/ “We’re going to have protests, demonstrations. We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal,” Stone declared. politico.com/blogs/2016-gop…
36/ After Trump secured the 2016 nomination, Stone began claiming the general election would be rigged against Trump. Photos from his Instagram account around this time. via @LeaLovesUSA
37/ “Stone did more than coin the term [Stop the Steal]. He registered it with the federal government as a political nonprofit… in 2016….” salon.com/2021/01/29/six…
38/ Stone also formed a “Stop the Steal” PAC, as reported by @grantstern who interviewed Stone about it.
https://twitter.com/grantstern/status/1359971088571236353
39/ To be contd
40/ Also re: 2016
https://twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1278143629568159744
42/ Around August 2016, Stone said there wld be a “blood bath” if anyone rigged the upcoming election against Trump. mediaite.com/online/roger-s…
43/ If anyone should have worried about election rigging, it was the Democrats. Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to defeat the Democratic nominee that year, Hillary Clinton. Moreover, Russian hackers had targeted U.S. election infrastructure throughout 2016.
44/ The full extent of whatever the U.S. government knows about Russia’s attack remains classified.
45/ If it weren’t for the young Army veteran #RealityWinner, who leaked information about the hacking of election-service provider VR Systems and the related spear phishing of Florida election officials, the public likely wouldn’t know as much as it does.
46/ Meanwhile, the “blood bath” threatened by Stone in 2016 would have required many boots on the ground. As “luck” would have it, Stone’s new friend, Alex Jones, had millions of gullible followers.
47/ Stone later explained his alliance w/ Alex Jones: "if u go to the people who watch him online on his site & u combine it w/ people who watch him on You Tube," you "are in the last week of the election reaching 18, 19 M people a day. Only he can do it." ctmirror.org/2017/01/29/rog…
48/ Jones was also useful in that he had ties to the Oath Keepers due to his coverage of the Bundy family's various standoffs against the federal govt, which put the Oath Keepers on the map. Biggs had covered the 2016 standoff 4 InfoWars. I explain here. jennycohn1.medium.com/the-oath-keepe…
49/ As "luck" would also have it, Roger Stone's friend, Gavin McInnis, announced in September 2016 that he had just founded a new group called the Proud Boys. takimag.com/article/introd…
50/ McInnis made the Proud Boys announcement in Taki's magazine where white nationalist Richard Spencer (leader of the so-called "alt right") was an editor.
51/ Like Roger Stone and Alex Jones (and Joe Biggs), Richard Spencer was in Cleveland for the 2016 RNC. He met Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec at a bar during the convention. According to Spencer, Posobiec introduced himself as a "Roger Stone associate."
52/ Gavin McInnis, founder of the Proud Boys, appears to share some of the same views as Richard Spencer, who had recruited McInnis to work for Taki's as well. vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/t…
53/ Here’s a Gavin McInnis quote. “I love being white” and “I don’t want our culture diluted…”splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
54/ Here’s another Gavin McInnis quote. Again, this is the founder of the Proud Boys.
55/ You can see why Roger Stone and Gavin McInnis (founder of the Proud Boys) might get along.
https://twitter.com/notcapnamerica/status/1284721297604390912
56/ At some point, Joe Biggs joined the Proud Boys. In the run up to the 2016 election, however, he seemed to be mostly involved in the propaganda arm of Roger Stone’s operation. The thuggery part would come later.
57/ Here’s a Twitter exchange between future Proud Boy Joe Biggs and Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec from July 27, 2016. Triple parentheses are used to target Jews.
58/ Joe Biggs, Alex Jones, and Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec were all proponents of Pizzagate, the lie that Hillary Clinton and other Democratic leaders were running a pedophile ring out of Comet Pizza in DC.
59/ Pizzagate was based on supposed code words—e.g, maybe “cheese pizza” really means “child pornography” bc both phrases have a “c” and a “p”—contained in the Wikileaks email dumps that Stone claims he had “nothing” to do with.
60/ Except that Steve Bannon’s longtime publicist, Andrea Preate, seemed to think that Roger Stone deserved an “attaboy” for what Wikileaks did.
https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1192993195296251906
61/ Jones issued a retraction and apologized for spreading the Pizzagate lie only after one of his gun-crazed followers opened fire inside the pizza parlor in December 2016, causing the restaurant owner to threaten litigation against him. Oops. nytimes.com/2017/03/25/bus…
62/ Alex Jones “fired” Joe Biggs, who had posted a Pizzagate video on the InfoWars website, and scrubbed his website of Pizzagate references around this time.
63/ Transcript of Jones’s Pizzagate retraction. mediamatters.org/alex-jones/ale…
64/ Biggs and Jones discuss Biggs’s separation from InfoWars here. Jones denies it had to do with Pizzagate.
65/ Joe Biggs had previously helped push InfoWars’ lie that the child victims of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School were actors & part of an op to undermine gun rights. rawstory.com/2017/01/every-…
66/ Joe Biggs “also pushed the debunked ‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy” and many of his tweets from 2012-2014 promoted extreme sexual violence. rawstory.com/2017/01/every-…
67/ In 2016 & 2017, Biggs, Jones, Posobiec, & Stone were also big spreaders of the lie that a young DNC staffer named Seth Rich had hacked the DNC’s emails — which were later published by Wikileaks & weaponized to undermine Clinton’s campaign —as opposed to Russia having done so.
68/ Seth Rich was a convenient scapegoat for Russia because he had been murdered by an unknown assailant in July 2016 and thus could not defend himself.
69/ Sean Hannity at Fox ran w/ the lie about Seth Rich. Years later, Fox quietly agreed to pay the Rich family millions of dollars to settle their claim against the network. Fox insisted the settlement remain confidential until after the 2020 election. thewrap.com/fox-news-seth-…
70/ Roger Stone’s pal, Alex Jones, recently had judgments entered against him in defamation cases filed by the parents of 10 children murdered at Sandy Hook. Some of the parents had received death threats bc of Jones’s lie. nytimes.com/2021/11/15/us/…
71/ Meanwhile, on 10/28/16, Proud Boy Joe Biggs posted this photo of himself & Posobiec to his Instagram account.
72/ 10/28/16 was also the day that Roger Stone, pushing the idea that the election wld be rigged, claimed that “Hillary Clinton met privately with Broward’s elections chief, Dr. Brenda Snipes [in Florida]. Both sides deny it.” sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/…
73/ “Stone promised that photos of the [supposed] meeting [between Clinton & Snipes] would be available ‘shortly’ on the website infowars.com But two days later, there were no photos on the website. Stone couldn’t be reached for comment…” sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/…
74/ It wasn’t until after Trump defied the polls (both pre-election & exit polls) to win the 2016 election that “Stone recanted the allegation against Snipes. He said he’d been given incorrect information which he repeated.” sun-sentinel.com/news/politics/…
75/ In 2017, Stone was filmed reciting the Proud Boys pledge.
https://twitter.com/lealovesusa/status/1483582190260834306
77/ Alex Jones hosted both Roger Stone and Proud Boy Jason Kessler on the same show in January 2017.
78/ Proud Boy Jason Kessler had also previously contributed stories to the Daily Caller when it was run by Tucker Carlson, a close friend of Roger Stone, who wrote the introduction to one of Stone’s books.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1118704884428279808
79/ Kessler and Richard Spencer organized the infamous August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where neo-Nazis carrying tiki torches chanted “Jews will not replace us.”
80/ Heather Heyer, who attended the rally to protest white supremacy, was run over by a truck and killed (murdered) at the Unite the Right rally.
81/ Here is what the repulsive Jason Kessler had to say about that.
82/ Leaked audio of the repulsive Richard Spencer immediately after Unite the Right.
https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1453748469840203781
83/ Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys Miami chapter (the future Proud Boys national chairman & Roger Stone personal security guard) attended Unite the Right. @Hatewatch
https://twitter.com/hatewatch/status/1070415474037583874
86/ Tarrio is a fourth level Proud Boy, which means that he has physically assaulted someone “for the cause.” nationalworld.com/news/people/en…
87/ Photo of Tarrio and Roger Stone.
88/ To be continued.
89/ Quick diversion back to Roger Stone, Wikileaks, and the related disinformation campaigns (Pizzagate & Seth Rich).
https://twitter.com/mollymckew/status/1088784149102641152
91/ Yes, I will write all of this up in a Medium piece. I’ve been working on it for a while. I didn’t plan to write this thread but doing so helped me boil down what I want to say in the piece, which will continue through 2020.
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