03-04-2022, 03:40 PM
"Stone allowed the filmmakers to document his activities during extended periods over more than two years. In addition to interviews and moments when Stone spoke directly to the camera, they also captured fly-on-the-wall footage of his actions, candid off-camera conversations from a microphone he wore and views of his iPhone screen as he messaged associates on an encrypted app. Reporters from The Washington Post reviewed more than 20 hours of video filmed for the documentary, “A Storm Foretold,” which is expected to be released later this year."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...-election/
Regarding this exposé, "You attribute things to me I never said," Stone wrote, without citing any examples. This, despite WaPo's reporting citing viewed footage of Stone in the documentary.
-- Stone worked with Trump, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Flynn, Ali Alexander, and more behind the scenes.
-- Stone actively campaigned for pardons, including felons who had supported Trump
-- Stone re-activated his previous "Stop the Steal" to become the Big Lie after the election. The original "Stop the Steal" occurred in 2016, when Stone successfully stopped Republicans from taking the nomination away from Trump.
What's that quote from Maya Angelou? When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investiga...-election/
Regarding this exposé, "You attribute things to me I never said," Stone wrote, without citing any examples. This, despite WaPo's reporting citing viewed footage of Stone in the documentary.
-- Stone worked with Trump, Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, Flynn, Ali Alexander, and more behind the scenes.
-- Stone actively campaigned for pardons, including felons who had supported Trump
-- Stone re-activated his previous "Stop the Steal" to become the Big Lie after the election. The original "Stop the Steal" occurred in 2016, when Stone successfully stopped Republicans from taking the nomination away from Trump.
On Nov. 5, as vote counts in key states slipped away from Trump, Stone coordinated a response during a rapid-fire succession of calls. As the filmmakers drove him to his makeshift office space in a strip mall near his home, Stone told one associate to create an account for hunting election fraud on an encrypted email service to avoid surveillance.
Dictating text messages, Stone told an aide to resurrect his Stop the Steal campaign. He predicted to another aide that his brand was about to be “quite a bit hotter” as a result, adding, “We’re going to raise money from Stop the Steal — it will be like falling off a log.”
“One man’s dirty trickster is another man’s freedom fighter,” he wrote in his 2018 book “Stone’s Rules,” a collection of career lessons including how voters will believe a “big lie” if it is kept simple and repeated often enough."
What's that quote from Maya Angelou? When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
A day before the announcement that Stone’s sentence was commuted, the Danish filmmakers’ footage shows, he told his staffer Enrique Alejandro that Trump should use the powers of his office to reject official results in that year’s election and secure victory in the courts with help from federal judges who owed him fealty.
On Nov. 5, Stone drew up a Stop the Steal action plan that was visible on Alejandro’s laptop in footage captured by the filmmakers. As protesters were mobilized, the plan said, state lawmakers would be lobbied to reject official results. That tactic later proved central to Trump’s efforts.
Also that day, Stone had a 15-minute call with Flynn, the video shows. He told Flynn they could “document an overwhelming and compelling fraud” in each battleground state and urged him to spread the word on social media. That day, Flynn, Trump’s campaign and his sons Donald Jr. and Eric began using #StopTheSteal on Twitter.
Stone and Flynn discussed the need to coordinate with the White House and oppose demands by Republicans in some states to stop counting votes. “Our slogan should be ‘count every legal ballot.’ Much better messaging. More positive,” Stone said. After an inaudible response from Flynn, Stone replied: “Well, we both know he often does things he shouldn’t do.”
That evening, Trump gave a speech from the White House briefing room. “If you count the legal votes, I easily win,” he began.