As I show in this thread, Roger Stone began messaging that the election would be stolen from Trump in July 2020, when he sought & received a commutation from Trump who was floundering in the polls. The Proud Boys celebrated the commutation w/ Stone. 2/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/1533926…
Proud Boys Biggs, Nordean, & Tarrio also formed Warboys, LLC in July 2020. By this time, the PBs were already known (to those paying attention) as Stone’s personal army. In Aug 2020, Ali posted a photo of himself w/ Stone & said they’d had dinner. But he quickly deleted it. 3/
“Stop the Steal” 2020 was officially launched in September 2020 with a since deleted tweet by Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec who has worked w/ Stone since 2016. Posobiec also announced Stone’s “Stop the Steal” 2018 campaign w/ a tweet. 4/
Don’t believe me about Poso? Here’s a tweet. 5/
In late December 2020, Ali bragged that he and Stone were partners re: Stop the Steal 2020. He later changed his story. Gee, I wonder who might have told him to do that? 6/
7/ I hope @January6thCmte hasn’t been fooled by Ali Alexander…
10/ Poso sent his “Stop the Steal” 2020 tweet on 9/7/20, the deadline that Mitch McConnell had reportedly set for Trump to turn around his dismal poll #s. Trump did not turn them around. That month, Stone suggested that Trump invoke the Insurrection Act in the event of a loss.
11/ Ali and Stone had a strategy meeting in November. At least one Oath Keeper (Captain O) was there too. Stone has always been at the center. jennycohn1.medium.com/the-oath-keepe…
13/ As I wrote here, Stone orchestrated a riot in 2000 to steal the election for Bush. link.medium.com/VazurfWWKqb
14/ Ali Alexander was well positioned to connect Stone’s network (Alex Jones, Jack Posobiec, Proud Boys, OathKeepers) to the Council 4 National Policy crowd (Ginni Thomas, Cleta Mitchell, Sidney Powell, Charlie Kirk, Mike Flynn, etc). Ali had been a CNP member a few years prior.
“Stop the Steal” 2020 was officially launched in September 2020 with a since deleted tweet by Roger Stone protege Jack Posobiec who has worked w/ Stone since 2016. Posobiec also announced Stone’s “Stop the Steal” 2018 campaign w/ a tweet. 1/
As @gal_suburban has discovered & reported, this plan involved a corrupted (by Trump) USAID & required that ODNI publish a report on ** foreign ** interference by 12/18/20, a deadline that ODNI missed, leading to that yelling match of a meeting at the White House on 12/18/20. 1/
Is this need to show foreign (not just domestic) interference why Sidney Powell bent herself into a pretzel trying to tie @dominionvoting to Hugo Chavez? Remember? Cartoon by @claytoonz 2/
Is this need to establish foreign (not just domestic) interference why Roger Stone spread a geographically untenable rumor about North Korea shipping ballots to a port in Maine? @January6thCmte 3/
That most Americans, including media, have no clue what Roger Stone has done is a huge problem bc he & his network are still doing it. We need America to know not just what happened, but also how it happened, & we need Stone & his network 2 be held accountable, not just Trump. 1/
If you don’t think Stone is a huge problem then you are missing a huge part of the picture. Reading this might help. 2/ threadreaderapp.com/thread/1533926…
It is alarming that Liz Cheney has clashed w/ @RepStephMurphy over the extent to which they should limit their inquiry to Trump. Murphy has been abused by Roger Stone & his network for years. Stone is “Mr. Stop the Steal” himself & yet he wasn’t mentioned yesterday. 🥵1/
3/ Jacob Engels is a self-described Proud Boys associate & Stone’s longtime assistant. He’s been called Stone’s mini me. He was w/ Stone on Jan 5. Murphy knows how deep the rot runs.
I wrote here about how Roger Stone orchestrated a riot to steal the 2000 election for Bush. The piece includes an aftermath section too. Here’s the aftermath re: Stone. 1/ jennycohn1.medium.com/the-2000-u-s-p…
Remember when Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson, & Jack Posobiec tried to blame the breach of the Capitol on “Antifa,” not knowing that Enrique Tarrio (Stone’s good friend & volunteer) had already taken credit for it?
Roger Stone, Tucker Carlson (a close friend of Roger Stone; he wrote the intro to Stone’s book), Jack Posobiec (has worked w/ Stone since 2016 & launched “Stop the Steal” 2020 w/ a tweet), & Mark Burns (another Stone pal) tried 2 blame the storming of the Capitol on “Antifa.” 1/