The loyal Trump adviser is under police investigation yet again.

The loyal Trump adviser is under police investigation yet again.

The Capitol Police are reportedly investigating remarks made by Roger Stone, after explosive audio revealed the longtime Trump ally tried to plot the assassinations of two Democratic congressmen.

The FBI is aiding with the investigation, Mediaite reported Tuesday, citing anonymous sources.

A few weeks before the 2020 election, Stone told a member of his security detail that he wanted either Representative Eric Swalwell or Representative Jerry Nadler (or both) killed, according to audio obtained by Mediaite. Just a few months prior, Nadler had announced that the House Judiciary Committee, on which he and Swalwell serve, would investigate Trump’s decision to commute Stone’s sentence for federal crimes.

“It’s time to do it,” Stone told Sal Greco, then a member of the NYPD who was working as Stone’s security. “Let’s go find Swalwell. It’s time to do it. Then we’ll see how brave the rest of them are. It’s time to do it. It’s either Nadler or Swalwell has to die before the election. They need to get the message. Let’s go find Swalwell and get this over with. I’m just not putting up with this shit anymore.”

  • Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run
    104·
    10 months ago

    Any rank and file citizen would be in jail already. But I’m ok with them getting the evidence and assuring that the trial happens flawlessly. Of course this all happened in 2020, so the principle of ‘justice delayed, is justice denied’, certainly comes to mind.

    • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
      40·
      10 months ago

      You’re forgetting the fact that Trump has made it clear that he is not above pardoning his allies. Stone can rest assured that whatever jail he ends up in, if Trump is re-elected he is getting another pardon.

    • Zoboomafoo@slrpnk.net
      131·
      10 months ago

      I prefer “The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine”

      It’s keeping me sane

    • stown@sedd.itEnglish
      19·
      10 months ago

      Why he is even allowed work in government/politics after the Nixon incident is a huge mystery to me.

      • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
        8·
        10 months ago

        Because Trump brought him back from the fringes and keep pardoning him whenever Stone gets in trouble. The only reason this is making the news is because Stone doesn’t have friends in high places anymore.

  • paddirn@lemmy.worldEnglish
    381·
    10 months ago

    I would love to see consequences happen, but we seem determined to slow walk ourselves into a fascist dictatorship by never letting anybody get punished for obviously fascist things.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      103·
      10 months ago

      It’s American tradition. FDR cut a deal with American fascists in the 1930s. And we’re still suffering for it today. And when I say American fascists, I of course mean Republicans.

  • Lifecoach5000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    162·
    10 months ago

    When are these jackholes gonna start screaming “deep fakes” when shit like this is released? I feel like it has to be on the horizon if it hasn’t happened yet.

    • lennybird@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      10 months ago

      He already did. Yet it’s entirely within Stone’s character to say and do this.

      • Doc Avid Mornington@midwest.socialEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        What actually surprises me is that the right hasn’t already been releasing a barrage of easily-debunked deep fakes just to undermine the public confidence in evidence and make it easier to claim a real recording is fake.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      10 months ago

      Stone has denied making the comments about Zelinsky, Swalwell, or Nadler and said the audio had been made with artificial intelligence.