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The great thing about Roger Stone is he never knows when to shut up. This is a great thing for his liberal Democrat enemies. Today he himself admits that he’s quite likely to be indicted in the Mueller probe but would this be the case if he hadn’t basically told the whole word every day for months that he’d communicated with Wikileaks-or that it that ‘soon it will be Podesta’s time in the barrel?

Sort of like his boss-Russia if you’re listening! 

Where would he be if Stone wasn’t always offering up all this prima facie evidence against himself? This has always been his weakness. He’s not a real poliitcal spook as he has to spike the ball. As noted in previous chapters, Stone escaped prison in the first Watergate because of his then tenderly young years-he was only 19 though he had driven the car that hand delivered the Canucks letter to the Manchester Union-Leader that drove Ed Muskie out of the Dem primary.

UPDATE: In the latest case of Stone not knowing when to shut up, his attempt to intimidate his judge, Amy Berman Jackson-who already sent Stone’s co-conspirator, Paul Manafort to jail for witness tampering after which she sentenced Manafort to up to 25 years-ie, the rest of his life in prison, Stone thought threatening her was a bright idea-now may indeed land him in jail.

Everyone forgets that. They say the first Watergate was a joke as Nixon won 49 states and the break in to the DNC had nothing to do with that. True but Watergate was more than just the break in. If you add in the actions of CREEP, then arguably if not for the Segretti letter Muskie could have beaten Nixon. Now, history majors can argue about this. Some might argue that they don’t think Muskie would have won in any case but that’s not the point. It’s the intent of the perpetrator-Nixon believed that Muskie was his strongest challenger and played some pretty serious dirty tricks to make sure he didn’t win the primary.

FN: Speaking of GOP dirty tricks I’d keep an eye on Tulsi Gabbard this time-Kamala Harris’ poll numbers tanked and have never recovered after her Tulsi sandbagged her at the second debate.  It’s kind of curious that Gabbard has defended Biden for his Iraq vote-when she argued this same Iraq war vote was disqualifying for Hillary Clinton.

And now very recently Gabbard has been in a food fight with Hillary Clinton. If nothing else Gabbard seems not to like leading female Democratic candidates-she took Harris down on rather dubious charges-which seemed alas to have their intended effect-and she’s always had an anathema for Hillary Clinton-that she defends the same votes and worse in the case of Biden that she argued were disqualifying for Hillary say it all.

In their recent fight Clinton argued that Tulsi’s a Russian asset. As usual regarding the MSM flew into full moral panic mode and acted shocked that anyone could say this about a solid citizen like Tulsi Gabbard-evidently the punditry doesn’t know her history.

Then all the Dem candidates outrageously threw Hillary under the bus to defend Gabbard proving they’ve learned nothing since 2016. The idea that Gabbard is a Russian asset was treated as self evidently not just false but absurd. The pundits and the feckless Dem candidates seemed not to notice that RT and other Russian Twitter trolls straight away sprung into action. Right-Russian troll Twitter all sprang to action to defend Tulsi because she’s not an asset. 

As usual when it comes to piling on Hillary Clinton the punditry lost all sense of proportion or logic. After all Hillary said Tulsi is an asset not an agent. That could simply mean Gabbard is a useful idiot a la  Glenn Greenwald.

But clearly Tulsi Gabbard has an agenda and that agenda isn’t exactly to help the Democratic party.

Jonathan Chait catches some signs that Tulsi Gabbard may end up mounting a third-party run, not necessarily to help the Russians, but to help the Republicans.

But in the age of Trump trying to help Republicans and seeking to help the Russians is a distinction without a difference-nobody has benefitted more from Trump’s illegitimate ‘Presidency’ than Trump himself-just check out both Ukraine and Syria if you don’t agree.

And it turns out that wether not Gabbard is a Russian asset exactly-however you want to define the term-she sure acts like one. 

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Stone got lucky that time. Then there was the 2000 election when Stone did his part to make the Brooks Brothers riots a success in shutting down the recount and handing the election to George W. Bush. This after Stone and Trump had run a classic agent provocateur campaign-Trump’s fake run for the Reform party’s nominee-meant to decimate the Reform party ticket and Pat Buchanan to make sure W faced no opponent to his Right in 2000.

Everything you need to know about Stone is shown in an acrimonious debate he had with another GOP operative over who really deserves credit for the Brooks Brothers riots. 

“Toobin makes clear that Stone’s account is not without discontents. Stone says the Brooks Brothers part of the riot, a group made up almost entirely of people outside of Miami, outside of Florida, who were Republican D.C. staffers flown in to cause a ruckus and stop a recount⁸³, was just a small fraction, and a sizable majority were spanish speaking. This does not correspond with other observers.

“There were two or three loud Cubans but most of the people I talked to were white, mostly men, from Oklahoma, Texas, mostly Southern states,” says Sunday Times correspondent Tom Rhodes. “They were talking on cellphones, probably to people nearby, telling them to get in there right away and bring as many people as they could.”⁸⁴ In the room where the Florida operation was run, conservative journalist Paul Gigot would hear that a large group of Cuban-American activists were about to be unleashed. “One thousand local Cuban Republicans were on the way,” was what was said. One thousand local Cuban Republicans never showed up⁸⁵

“How the Troops Were Mobilized for the Recount” by Dana Canedy and James Dao, has Republicans defending the mob against charges of the belligerence, without contesting who they were. “A group of out-of-state, paid political operatives came to south Florida in an attempt to stop county-wide recounts,” alleged a Democrat. “They crossed state lines and intimidated the counting in a federal election, which is a violation of the Voting Rights Act.” Emily Miller would reply, “This was not a threatening band of armed thugs.” Miller was a spokesperson for Tom DeLay, then the House majority whip. “They were idealistic, enthusiastic young Republicans who felt they were being shut out, that this was an unfair decision.” One of those in the Brooks Brothers riot was Tom Pyle, policy analyst for Tom DeLay⁸⁶.

FN: An unfair decision. Sounds very like the faux GOP outrage today regarding impeachment. I worry the Democrats are taking the bait-let’s be clear there’s nothing in the Constitution about either ‘being fair to President Trump’ or ‘giving President Trump his due process’-indeed there’s nothing about due process at all regarding the impeachment power it gives the Congress.

The wonderful thing about the word unfair is it’s entirely subjective and malleable-it can mean anything. Regarding the Brooks Brothers riots the GOP speciously claimed the recount wasn’t fair but it was the law-ie what was unfair was the GOP’s thuggish tactics in shutting it down-and then the GOP Supreme Court’s shutting it down for good.

Speaking of which Trump’s lawyer Alan Dershowitz is now floating the idea that John Roberts will dismiss impeachment in the Senate under the bizarre premise that it’s unconstitutional because the vote was partisan-ie the fact that the GOP puts country over party means they have full veto power. They can protect any GOP President or-‘President’-simply by defending him even if he shoots someone on 5th avenue.

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“Various members of the Brooks Brothers Riot, taken from Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election.”

“The most visible top level figure on the ground wasn’t Roger Stone, who is never mentioned in contemporary reports of the halting of the Miami-Dade count, but John Sweeney, a Republican representative from New York. When the vote counters decided to move to a room closer to the voting machines so as to speed up the count, Sweeney gave the order, “Shut it down,” according to Gigot, who was in the same room as Sweeney when the order was given. After that, the Brooks Brothers mob pounded the doors and windows of the tally room. “Stop the count. Stop the fraud.” Sweeney was giving these orders, according to eyewitnesses, in a room in the same building where the vote tally was taking place. Stone’s account is also disputed by Brad Blakeman. “I was the guy in charge of the trailer, and I coördinated the Brooks Brothers riot,” says Blakeman in the Toobin piece. “Roger did not have a role that I know of. His wife may have been on the radio, but I never saw or heard from him.” Stone scoffs at such doubts⁸

Let me just reiterate what I said in previous chapters-if you want some simply phenomenal writing on Roger Stone italkyoubored is where to go.

So within GOP politics Stone is always insisting on patting himself on the back for his dirty tricks but others in the party have often questioned how much credit he truly deserves. More recently, in 2016 he and another major co-conspirator in Weinergate, Chuck Johnson, had a major dustup over whose brainchild it really was to have Trump come to the second debate the Sunday night after Hollywood Access with the various Clinton accusers. 

“It was widely believed that Breitbart News executive director Steve Bannon orchestrated the spectacle through Johnson, but a report from The Wrap disputes the commonly believed chain of events and puts Stone in a familiar role as the culprit, as an email chain was linked indicating that it was originally his idea.”

“Johnson is publicly disputing the article’s claims.”

“This is fake news. I paid for the entire operation. I worked with Steve Bannon to execute the entire thing,” he said. “There’s bank receipts that show I paid for it. I helped [now Department of Education employee] Candice Jackson bring Kathy Shelton. Candice was seated next to Shelton in that iconic photo.”

“In a statement released to The Liberty Conservative, Stone unleashed his wrath on Johnson.”

“Chuck Johnson is an autistic lunatic and bald face liar. Other than driving a Mississippi activist to commit suicide he has no accomplishments to his name. The email trail proves that the genesis of the idea was mine. It’s Chuck Johnson who had nothing whatsoever to do with it. I never dealt with the women directly leaving that to others who assured me of their availability. In case you are unaware I wrote an entire book on the subject – the Clinton’s war on women,” Stone said.

Johnson disputes the claim that he drove Mark Mayfield, the Mississippi activist that Stone alluded to in his comment, to suicide and publicly demands an apology from Stone. He says he “can’t wait to spend part of [his] bitcoin fortune suing that old fraud into oblivion.”

“He’s libeling me but seems to be judgment proof. It’s already been written about in the Daily Mail. Kathy Shelton thanked me on Twitter,” Johnson said in response to Stone. Johnson said to ask Stone why he refused to have a DNA test done for Danney Williams, the half-black individual widely rumored to be Bill Clinton’s son. Stone fired back.”

As much as I love it when Deplorables fight, the really interesting question is the one the FEC should ask: what were these accusers paid and who paid it? Whoever did very possibly committed campaign fraud. Unless they reported it properly and it didn’t violate any laws or surpass clear limits.

One thing is clear-wether it was Stone or Chuck Johnson or both had roles, they both clearly were tied to the Trump campaign so if either of them paid these accusers to be there, it means the Trump campaign was involved in more payments that very well could interest Mueller, SDNY, or better yet, the Democratic Congress.

Of course, in Comeygate the both had roles-Johnson on the Weinergate side but Stone and Jerome Corsi on the rogue FBI agents side-but much more on this below.

FN: Regarding the larger Comeygate scandal-how much was the Trump campaign involved? Seeing that this chapter points to Stone’s and Corsi ‘s involvement quite a bit-it’s not credible that Stone told Trump and his senior aides about Wikileaks and the Podesta emails but not Weiner’s laptop. And we know that both Rudy Giuliani-obviously very close to the campaign and Trump’s daughter in law, Lara Trump telegraphed the Comey letter in advance. Erik Prince was out in front in fomenting lies about what was in Huma’s emails-and, recall Seth Abramson argues that Erik Prince-along with Michael Flynn-were Trump’s genuine-rather than official- national security-advisers.

So Roger Stone is always getting into catfights with other GOP dirty tricksters over who deserves credit for the dirtiest Nixonian dirty tricks. Which is why he perhaps offers investigators so much great prima facie evidence of his own criminal behavior-I communicated with Wikileaks, Soon it will be Podesta’s time in the barrel. While Stone’s young years helped him stay out of jail in the first Watergate it seems that in 2018 he’d rather go to prison than be ignored. And it’s quite possible Mueller will oblige him. He insists that ‘he can’t think of any circumstance’ that would get him to testify against Trump.

He also states that while many of his associates have been interviewed by Mueller he has not-and, of course, just recently Randy Credico testified to Mueller on what he knows about Stone. Stone declared Credico a perjurer if he told Mueller what he told CNN. 

Of course, this just underscores the likelihood that Stone is actually a subject if not a target of the investigation-targets don’t normally do an interview as it’s not seen as fair  and constitutional to make them testify against themselves. By the way, this also underscores how absurd it was to think that Clinton stood a good chance of being indicted based on her interview with Comey-by definition the fact that she was interviewed demonstrated she was neither a target nor even a subject-and so not going to be indicted. As we saw in Chapter A Emailgate was the investigation without a subject. If there was a good chance she wouldn’t have been asked to sit for an interview. I know- what a comedy of errors the conventional analysis of Emailgate was. It simply boggles the mind. But I digress.

Anyway, Stone loves to talk way too much. This has already gotten him into a lot of trouble and before this is over will likely get him into even more.

UPDATE: It already has-tomorrow, Thursday, February 21, 2019 we will get to see just how far Judge Amy Berman Jackson puts her foot up his treasonous ass.

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FN: I must have been in a hopeful mood here-she didn’t actually end up doing that and if anything she was rather lenient with Stone not sending him to jail but banning him from large social media. 

But this is because if there’s anything worse to Roger Stone than being indicted or even convicted, it’s being ignored.

Which brings us to the subject at hand-Comeygate. Stone’s big mouth got him into all kinds of trouble in Russiagate. What’s not understood at all is that he’s also said a great deal about the other half of Watergate 2.0-Comeygate. He’s left a whole forest of bread crumbs leading to his part in Comeygate. But no one has picked up the scent. Until now.

Look I’m not one to toot my own horn but someone has to do it. And so far as I know there’s been very little if any awareness of Stone’s part in Comeygate. Stone’s comments tying him to Comeygate are part of public information but no one apparently has taken note of it-I’ve seen very little if anything about what he told The Intercept in early 2017 about Comeygate.

Then there’s what he said in his book on the 2016 election. So far as I’m aware no one has noticed this. Other than myself. While I’m not a journalist per se, I have been able to point to many unplumed paths and roads in this book particularly on the subject of Comeygate-which compared to Russiagate has been almost completely ignored.

Ok-so first of all, heeeere’s Roger-in his Intercept interview declaring that ‘facts are in the eyes of the beholder.’ He clearly seems to know a lot about just who the rogue anti Clinton agents at the NY FBI-aka Trumpland-were. 

You’ve talked about the “deep state.” Why is it that when the intelligence community is leaking about Flynn’s Russia contacts, that is the work of the deep state, but when the FBI leaks about Hillary’s emails, that isn’t the deep state? Is there a difference?”

“Because the people who I suspect are leaking against the president are running these agencies and have authority. The leaks that have come out against Hillary are coming from the middle and lower levels of the agencies from people who see a political cover-up and want to thwart it. They are not the deep state. They don’t run anything. They just have information. They may have a political view, but they are not running the agency. They have no influence beyond their obtaining, or having access to, information.”

“They had enough influence to get Comey to put out that letter before the election.”

“Comey had no choice. The NYPD had and has a copy of the 650,000 emails. Comey’s statement, days before the election, that there’s nothing in there, is a bald-faced lie. This is just supposition, but I think the FBI director looked at the content and said they’re going to hang me if I don’t do something.”

FN: Put this claim next to Rudy Giuliani’s claim at the time that there’s a revolution going on at the FBI-see the last chapter for more. In that chapter we also looked at threats made to True Pundit by NYPD brass that if Comey didn’t publicly reveal the emails he was going to release it to Wikileaks.

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Ok so at the minimum he clearly seems to know who these people were. He ought to be asked their names before the 2019 Dem House Select Committee on Comeygate.

This was prima facie evidence enough. But Stone did even more talking about Comeygate in his book on the 2016 election. Perhaps the reason why I know no one other than myself who has discussed what Stone said in his book is no one else has read it-I don’t know. But Stone provides a very interesting etymology of the Comey letter in the book.

“The previously unreported background of the story starts on August 22, 2016, when the Washington-based watchdog group Judicial Watch released 725 pages of State Department documents, including previously unreleased email exchanges in which Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, provided influential Clinton Foundation donors special, expedited access to the secretary of state. In many instances, the preferential treatment provided to donors was at the specific request of Clinton Foundation executive Douglas Band.”

“The State Department had released the documents in partial compliance with a federal court order issued in a May 5, 2015, in connection with Freedom of Information, FOIA, lawsuit that Judicial Watch had launched against the State Department. WND senior staff writer Jerome R. Corsi was interested in the emails, thinking they might shed more light on the accusations he had made that the Clinton Foundation was a “vast criminal conspiracy” in his previously mentioned 2016 book, Partners in Crime: The Clintons’ Scheme to Monetize the White House for Personal Profit”

Locations: 5663-5668.

The usual obsession with the Clinton Foundation which is actually a real philanthropic organization that has done much good in the world as opposed to Trump’s phony charities that are nothing but scams. Yet the MSM in 2016 demanded that the Clinton Foundation shut down not the Trump Organization-which Trump had used to pay a political bribe to then Florida AG Pam Bondi to get her to drop the investigation into Trump University.

UPDATE: In the most recent Pam Bondi news Trump says he’d love to have her in his Russia House Administration. 

UPDATE 2.0: We now know a lot more about Stone and Coris’s relationship-Corsi works for Stone. We know from Mueller’s report all the work Corsi did for Stone in facilitating the Trump campaign’s collusion with  Russia. But in his own book Stone divulges the work Corsi did for him in Comeygate.

Back to Corsi’s machinations.

Regarding the mishandling of sensitive much less classified information there has been no bigger offender in American history than Trump himself-it’s not for nothing that the FBI is continuing to investigate if Trump is a national security threat through to this day-per Mueller in his July 23, 2019 testimony.

Coincidences take a lot of planning. It sure was a coincidence when the NYPD agents in the Anthony Weiner  sexting with a minor investigation just happened to find all those emails between Human Abedin and Hillary Clinton on Weiner’s laptop. But of course, coincidences take a lot of planning and this particular coinkydink sure took a lot of it.

At the very minimum the agents who ‘found’ the emails on Weiner’s laptop kind of had a tip from Roger Stone’s fellow co-conspirator and conspiracy theorist, Jeremy Corsi.

FN: Again it’s now clear Corsi worked for Stone in Comeygate just like in Russia if you’re listening.

So here are two very clear persons of interest for Comeygate: Stone and his Birther buddy Jeremy Corsi. Stone can explain who these people in NY were and Corsi can give a rolodex of all the intel people he was working with-were any of the currently at the FBI?

UPDATE: Jeremy Corsi to testify about Roger Stone but will he be asked about Comeygate?

UPDATE 2.0: Short answer is no as far as we’re aware.

UPDATE: As it turns out Corsi was able to roil Mueller-as George Papadopolous, Michael Flynn, and Paul Manafort largely did. Corsi deliberately told lies to confuse the issue and escaped indictment-Manafort also told lies that prevented Mueller from determining exactly what happened regarding Manafort-Kiliminik-Oleg Deripaska et al.

Still arguably Mueller’s bar to be confident in drawing a conclusion was too high. Even if much of the picture is sketchy it’s clear in at least the broad basic outlines what was going on. Mueller never considered doing what Adam Schiff and Nancy Pelosi are now rightly doing-inferring guilty based on refusal to comply with subpoenas et al. Mueller seemed too timid to even infer the day of the week in Russia if you’re listening-when the subject is a GOPer suddenly no one from the FBI can make any inferences or connect any dots.

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Coincidences take a lot of planning. Regarding Weinergate we see lots of different parties who did a lot of planning: the NY Post, the Daily Mail, Sydney Leathers, Chuck Johnson, Weiner’s young sexting partner and her greedy Right wing Dad. And, of course, in this chapter-Roger Stone. Next chapter we will look at another track of the tremendous planning behind Weinergate: True Pundit, the favorite fake news outlet of rogue anti Clinton FBI agents everywhere.

UPDATE 3.0: With the public reporting of some of the emails between Stone and Corsi-as documented in (Chapter A) now in Mueller’s possession, it’s now becoming clearer how the two GOP dirty tricksters conspired not just on the Podesta emails but on Huma Abedin’s emails-that Judicial Watch gained access to via their FOIA request.

It also comes in to clearer focus when you realize that Corsi was literally working for Stone in 2016-he was commissioned to get the dirt on Clinton wether regarding Wikileaks but also regarding Clinton’s own Emailgate scandal

We know what Stone emailed Assange on July 24, 2016: go to the Ecuadorian embassy in England and get those emails from Wikileaks. On August 2, 2016 Corsi emailed Stone back with information on the emails-not just the content-John Podesta-but also the timing: October.

Then on August 21, Stone tweets Trust me, it will soon be Podesta’s time in the barrel. After the huge blowback he suffers he begs Corsi on August 30 for an alternative explanation of his Podesta tweet 

To get the full picture of the labyrinthine narrative Stone gives of their work on getting Huma Abedin’s Yahoo emails to the right place-Weiner’s laptop-Stone gives, that according to him starts on August 22, 2016-just a day after Podesta’s time in the barrel-it’s now pretty clear what needs to be done: we need to see Stone and Corsi’ emails regarding Emailgate.

Emails regarding Emailgate… 

Of course, adding irony on top of irony, we know that Corsi scrubbed all his emails prior to October 11, 2016. Remember all the faux outrage of the Clinton haters on the idea that she scrubbed the server?! 

Stone starts the story when Judicial Watch obtained Huma’s emails but to get the full picture we also need to see what they had discussed about Emailgate in general and the push to see her emails in particular prior to actually receiving them.

Then, naturally, we need to look at all subsequent emails and communications between them regarding Huma’s emails in particular and Emailgate in particular. There’s no question these communications have an earth shaking story to tell. 

It’s possible Mueller’s team  has already come across them. In any case the House Democrats need to get on it and ask Mueller about this.

Jerrold Nalder has stated his Judiciary Committee is going to investigate the leaks of the rogue FBI agents in the last few months of the campaign. Regarding that the communications between Stone and Corsi no doubt are a mother lode.

I make one request, however, Dear Reader: wether Mueller already knows about this or not, please remember you heard it hear first

UPDATE: In retrospect it’s clear that I invested way too much confidence in Mueller in thinking he’d find anything like that out-it’s clear he construed his mandate as narrowly as possible which is not surprising. After all Mueller like Comey and McCabe is or at least pre 2016 was a Republican as has been every FBI Director in its 111 year history. When the FBI is compelled to investigate a GOPer it construes its mandate as narrowly as possible.

UPDATE 4.0: Again recall that Rudy Giuliani and  Lara Trump telegraphed they knew the Comey letter was coming. It”s very logical to presume that Stone made Trump and the campaign aware of the emails on Abedin’s laptop just as he did regarding the hacked Podesta emails.