Now that leaders of both the Oath Keepers AND the Proud Boys have been convicted of seditious conspiracy, it’s time to address the elephant in the room: Roger Stone. 1/ @TheJusticeDept
Roger Stone is the link. Cartoon by Pat Bagley. 2/
I’ve been writing a series on Roger Stone and his network (which has included the Proud Boys and Florida Oath Keepers) for @BucksCoBeacon. Part 5 should be out late next week). Here’s Part 1. 3/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/01/roger-…
Part 2 includes how Enrique Tarrio helped Jacob Engels (Roger Stone’s longtime assistant) take down Andrew Gillum who had run against DeSantis for FL Governor in 2018. It also discusses 2018 “Stop the Steal” & how Joe Biggs helped Stone’s minions w/ it. 4/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/02/januar…
Part 3 discusses the criminal charges against Roger Stone, as well as his ties to Jerome Corsi who was Stone’s Wikileaks intermediary & who seemed to have insider knowledge of the #Weinergate sexting scandal that led to the reopened Clinton email probe. 5/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/03/roger-…
Part 4 chronicles how Roger Stone flaunted his ties to the Proud Boys & incorporated them into the MAGA movement in 2018, & how PBs hovered outside the courthouse during Stone’s criminal trial & worked as Stone’s volunteers when he threatened the judge. 6/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/04/roger-…
Part 1 discusses Roger Stone’s use of “Stop the Steal” in 2016 & the Proud Boys founding by Stone’s pal, Gavin McInnes. It also has background on Joe Biggs & how he covered the Bundy standoff for InfoWars & was later guarded by the Oath Keepers. 7/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/01/roger-…
I wrote about Roger Stone’s interference in the 2000 presidential election in part 1 (above) and here as well. 8/ jennycohn1.medium.com/the-2000-u-s-p…
11/ On 12/13/20, Roger Stone (who was close w/ FL Proud Boys leaders) met w/ Kelly Meggs, the FL Oathkeepers leader who was convicted of seditious conspiracy. On 12/19/20, Meggs said in a text that he had formed an OK/PB alliance that week. @DOJCrimDivbuckscountybeacon.com/2022/08/underr…
18/ People dangerously underestimate Roger Stone’s influence on Donald Trump. Per Paul Manafort, who joined Trump’s campaign in March 2016, Stone & Trump were so ‘interconnected’ that it was ‘hard to define what’s Roger and what’s Donald.’ @BucksCoBeaconbuckscountybeacon.com/2023/01/roger-…
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20/ Remember how Roger Stone’s associate, Florida Oath Keepers leader Kelly Meggs, announced on 12/19/20 that he formed an alliance with the Proud Boys & Florida Three Percenters earlier that week? This seems hugely important. @DOJCrimDiv
23/ Correction post 7. As discussed in my article (linked in post 7), InfoWars covered the Bundy standoff but Joe Biggs missed it. Instead he caught up with the Oath Keepers in Ferguson.
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Terrific post by @LuluFriesdat of @Smart_elections —which seeks a hand recount of the presidential election in Rockland County, NY—in which they correct those who have wrongly suggested that Smart Elections’ legitimate concerns & findings thus far amount to “proof” that the election was rigged for Trump.
THIS is what credible election integrity messaging looks like: “Are we concerned about all the software updates they released? You bet we are. Can we say conclusively that there was some kind of malware in those updates that changed vote totals? No we cannot. That’s why we’re in court. To get that kind of information.”
👏👏👏👏 1/ open.substack.com/pub/smartelect…
Those of you who have followed me for years know that I spent about four years of my life focusing on election security. (See my article below.) 2/ buckscountybeacon.com/2023/10/trump-…
3/ After the Big Lie, I felt that the movement had been so discredited—by people improperly conflating vulnerabilities with “proof” of fraud & then using that non-existent “proof” to justify violence—that I could no longer effectively advance this ball.
“As of three weeks ago, 172 of these individuals [pardoned by Trump] had pled guilty to assaulting law enforcement. By their own admission, they assaulted police. About 140 officers were injured, including Officer Brian Sicknick, who died the following day. Four officers who responded that day have since died by suicide.” 1/25/25 (Link in post 2.)
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Trump has picked Paul Ingrassia to lead the Office of Special Counsel. As of 9 days ago, Ingrassia’s Instagram included a pinned photo of himself w/ self-professed “misogynist” Andrew Tate who has since been charged w/ rape & trafficking in the UK & who performed the Nazi salute on video (in apparent defense of Elon Musk). 1/
MAGA’s favorite White South African activist group—Afriforum—admitted last year that “there is no white genocide going on in South Africa.”
(In 2018, Afriforum had traveled to the US to discuss their claim that White South African farmers were being murdered due to their race. They have since hobnobbed with Tucker Carlson, Jack Posobiec, New Founding, CPAC, & NatCon.) 1/
The Center for Renewing America—founded by Trump’s OMB Director pick Russ Vought, a top architect of Project 2025—has *explicitly* said that it wants the federal govt to “eliminate” Obamacare’s life-saving Medicaid expansion. Here are some stats on the expansion. 1/ cbpp.org/research/healt…