MSNBC Airs More Damning Video of Roger Stone
Denouncing Trump Campaign
INFURIATED
Stone acknowledges Trump’s election loss on Jan. 6,
and criticizes his ally’s campaign as “childish” and “amateurish,” among other
expletives.
William
Vaillancourt
Updated
Aug. 22, 2023 4:35AM EDT / Published Aug. 21, 2023 8:48PM EDT
https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-airs-more-damning-video-of-roger-stone-denouncing-trump-campaign
MSNBC’s The
Beat on Monday aired more clips of Roger Stone from the final weeks of the
Trump administration. This time, the right-wing operative criticizes the
then-president’s campaign for being “extraordinarily fucked-up,” and also
acknowledges on Jan. 6 that Trump lost the presidential election.
In one
video from A Storm Foretold, a documentary from this year that has not yet been
released in the United States except for a portion that was aired on MSNBC,
Stone has a phone conversation in which he describes his role in trying to get
Trump re-elected.
“I’m doing
that unofficially and informally,” Stone says, “because his campaign is so
extraordinarily fucked-up.”
In that
conversation, Stone also predicts the election to be “a 2000-like result with a
long, drawn-out squabble over who won.”
“This is
not a campaign structured for a dog fight. And that’s what we have now. So
independent action is required, you know,” says Stone, a key figure in the
Brooks Brothers riot that disrupted a ballot recount in Florida during the
razor-thin presidential election in 2000.
The kind of
“independent action” Stone possibly referred to was aired last week on MSNBC,
in which Stone dictates a strategy for state legislatures to send pro-Trump
electors to the meeting of the Electoral College.
A second clip aired Monday from Jan. 6, when the
Electoral College met, shows Stone learning that he will not be speaking at the
“Stop the Steal” rally that afternoon.
“I don’t
understand how they want us to lead the march but can’t even tell us where to
go. So it doesn’t make sense,” he says. “If we were speaking, we would have
transportation as [Rudy] Giuliani did. It’s fine. Let’s go upstairs and watch
this on TV.”
Once in his
hotel room and watching Trump speak, Stone claims that it’s “very clear that I
was never on their list.”
“The whole
thing was a con job,” he continues. “It’s just childish and it’s amateurish.
That’s why they lost. They don’t know what they’re doing.”
Stone has
denied that he is one of the 30 unindicted co-conspirators in the RICO
indictment unveiled last week of Trump, Giuliani, and 16 others for their
efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
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