Roger Stone, a political consultant who once worked for former President Donald Trump, was caught on undercover video saying he wants former Attorney General William Barr sent to prison.
The video was taken by The Undercurrent in August and posted on X, formerly Twitter. The reporter who took the video allegedly posed as a Republican operative who had questions about the coming election and voting procedures.
Stone was indicted in 2019 on charges of witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding and five counts of making false statements. He was convicted on all counts and sentenced to 40 months in prison. Trump pardoned Stone on December 23, 2020.
Barr served as attorney general for the Trump administration in 2019 and 2020.
In an undercover video, Roger Stone, left, was heard saying that former Attorney General William Barr, right, should go to prison. Stone was indicted on multiple charges while Barr was in office.
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“He’s a piece of s***,” Stone said about Barr in the video. “Trump read a law review article, never checked his background, and made him attorney general. Once we get back in, he has to go to prison, he’s a criminal.”
Stone said he blames his indictment on the Trump administration. “I was indicted by Trump’s Justice Department. Bill Barr is a traitorous piece of human garbage,” he said.
Stone also said armed guards should be sent to voting sites. “We have to fight it out on a state-by-state basis, but you have to be ready,” he said in response to a question over methods to stop Democrats from stealing the election. “When they throw us out of Detroit, you go get a court order, you come in with your own armed guards, and you, and you dispute it. Instead, our guys just left.”
In 2020, Republicans spread claims that fraudulent absentee and mail-in ballots were delivered to Detroit’s Huntington Place, which was known as the TCF Center at the time, to help rig the election against Trump.
No evidence of widespread voter fraud was found in the state and multiple audits of the state’s election confirmed President Joe Biden‘s victory.
Stone was also seen on an undercover video by The Undercurrent at an event in March at Mar-a-Lago. Stone said that in preparation for challenging election results, Republicans should “have a lawyer and a judge—his home phone number standing by—so you can stop it.”
In August, Stone said his comments had been “twisted by the media” and it is normal for attorneys to have the phone number of a judge “in case there’s need to file an emergency motion based on actions that indicate anomalies or improper conduct of the count.”
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