if you have some trouble What’s even more alarming than how Donald Trump and his allies plan to wreak havoc in the 2024 election is how comfortable they are with telling anyone who asks what they plan to do, according to undercover recordings obtained by liberal journalist Lauren Windsor:, Roger Stone, a longtime Trump consultant and professional campaigner, boasted that the former president and his top aides are “on the offensive” ahead of the election and are better prepared to challenge the results of the November election than they were in 2020.
“At least this time, if they rig the election, we have lawyers and judges and home phone numbers to thwart them,” Stone said. “We were totally unprepared last time. … We have to take the technical and legal steps to have a fairer election. We’re not there yet, but we can do it.”
This voice is Rolling Stone, The video, which features two conversations – one between Windsor and Stone, and one between Stone and Windsor’s associate Allie Samarco – was recorded at a Catholic prayer event for Trump at the former president’s Florida club, Mar-a-Lago, on March 19. Stone was the keynote speaker at the event.
In his candid conversations with the two women, posing as fans, Mr. Stone expressed cautious optimism about Mr. Trump’s chances of winning the election, but also about his legal troubles, at one point predicting that Judge Eileen Cannon would soon dismiss the Department of Justice’s classified documents lawsuit against the former president.
“We’re beating them,” Stone told Samarco.[Trump’s] “The Georgia case is falling apart. I think the judge is on the verge of throwing out the charges against him in Florida. It’s been postponed in New York City and now it’s been postponed in Washington.” Trump was subsequently convicted of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his hush money trial in New York. Judge Cannon had ruled in Trump’s favor in the classified documents case, but last week denied his motion to have the case dismissed in its entirety.
Stone also suggested that the MAGA movement is fully prepared to go to great lengths to ensure that Trump beats Biden in November. When Samarco asked Stone what could be done to stop Trump’s opponents from committing “voter fraud” such as “ballot harvesting,” Stone replied, “In some states it would be easy to stop. In others it wouldn’t be.”
“We should be suing in six places,” Stone added. “So we’re finally on the offensive.” Stone went on to tell Samarco that now that the RNC is under MAGA control, they can spend “a lot more” on election monitoring. He also pointed out that they could “change state laws, monitor voter lists in real time, go to court like we did to challenge voting laws,” and that “we sued in Michigan over handover.” [written] “Ballots”
In another conversation with Windsor, who is making the documentary, Gonzo for Democracywill document the rise of Trumpism, election denial and religious extremism, with Stone making clear his belief that the election “can be stolen again” and calling the various criminal cases against Trump a way to “siphon off his money and time, and to create reasons to believe that their theft is plausible.”
“We’re working on this,” Stone assured Windsor, telling her he was concerned that “overconfidence” among Trump’s supporters was dampening voter turnout. He added that the former president’s allies “are lawyers, judges, [and] They will also introduce “technology” to challenge election results if necessary.
Asked for comment Tuesday, Stone said, “All of the election integrity provisions I have proposed are entirely legal and should be part of any effort to ensure voting security.”
last week, Rolling Stone Windsor and his team released another secret recording of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, Martha Ann, at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3. Justice Alito In the audio, he says the fight for America is “irreconcilable,” adding that “one side is going to win.” When told the country needs to return to a “godly place,” he responds, “I agree.”
Stone repeated that sentiment in a keynote speech at Mar-a-Lago in March, warning the crowd that the Democratic Party had been hijacked by “a group of radical atheist Marxists intent on completely destroying our country and our constitutional freedoms.”
“Please don’t think this is a battle between Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. This is nothing less than an epic battle between good and evil,” Stone said. “It’s a battle between light and darkness, between believers in God and non-believers.”
Stone, who describes himself as a “dirty cheat,” was a key figure in the 2020 “Stop the Steal” movement and whose involvement in creating challenges to the election results dates back to 2001, when he played a key role in the Brooks Brothers riots that helped thwart a recount of the 2000 election in Florida, ensuring George W. Bush’s presidency.
A video obtained by MSNBC last year showed Stone outlining his plans to undermine the Electoral College as several states continued to count votes, just days before President Joe Biden was declared the winner of the 2020 election. “Any legislative body can determine, based on overwhelming evidence of fraud, to send to the Electoral College electors who accurately reflect the President’s legitimate victory in a state that was unlawfully denied by fraud,” Stone said.
“We must be prepared to lobby Republican legislatures through personal contact and by going state by state to demonstrate the overwhelming will of the people that this is necessary,” he added.
The effort to change the Electoral College votes and undermine the certification of the election culminated in the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. On the day of the attempted riot, Stone was seen in Washington, DC with a contingent of Oahu Keepers members acting as his personal security. Several members of the group were later convicted of seditious conspiracy against the United States.
As previously reported Rolling Stone, Trump and his allies have expended enormous time, money and logistical energy preparing to challenge the results of this year’s election. In Georgia, which Trump lost by just 1 percentage point, Republicans control the governorship and legislature and have turned the state into a testing ground for mechanisms that could wrest the election from the hands of voters.
“Everybody is preparing for full-scale war,” said a Republican close to Trump who has worked on “election integrity.” Rolling Stone“The campaign, the Republican National Committee, everybody is going to be fighting the Biden campaign at every point, every step of the process.”
