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(46,327 posts)
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:19 PM Apr 2016

Two years ago Roger Stone wanted Bernie sanders killed for "treason..."

Trump still won't disavow this old Nixon goon though.

Trump Ally Roger Stone Advocated Killing Bernie Sanders "For Treason”

Trump And Stone Are Now Making A Play For Sanders Voters

Donald Trump ally Roger Stone tweeted in 2014 that Sen. Bernie Sanders is a "Soviet Agent" who "should be arrested for treason and shot." Stone and decades-long friend Trump have recently been courting Sanders supporters to back the Republican front-runner in the general election.

Stone is a longtime adviser and confidant to Trump. He now heads a pro-Trump super PAC and has stirred controversy by promising to disclose the hotels and room numbers of Republican National Convention delegates who are purportedly trying to "steal" the nomination from Trump.

Stone has a history of violent rhetoric. He suggested he wants "to bash Bill O'Reilly's head in," offered a bounty to anyone who “punches out Chris Matthews,” told journalist Jill Abramson to “DIE BITCH!,” fantasized about CNN commentator Ana Navarro “killing herself,” and said he’d “kick in” money to see Hillary Clinton kill herself.

He tweeted in April 2014: "Soviet Agent Bernie Saunders [sic], Should be arrested for treason and shot”:

http://mediamatters.org/blog/2016/04/28/trump-ally-roger-stone-advocated-killing-bernie-sanders-treason/210126

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Two years ago Roger Stone wanted Bernie sanders killed for "treason..." (Original Post) Archae Apr 2016 OP
I wonder what his DU name is. arcane1 Apr 2016 #1
Swiftboating Al Gore from Argentina, SIDE, Israeli wire transfers, spy files, forgery, Bush & Menem L. Coyote Apr 2016 #2
Who the hell IS Roger Stone? His being on CNN is telling underpants Apr 2016 #3
You know, people like us are far too ignorant Hortensis Apr 2016 #4
I'll take that as I think it was meant underpants Apr 2016 #5

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
2. Swiftboating Al Gore from Argentina, SIDE, Israeli wire transfers, spy files, forgery, Bush & Menem
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:30 PM
Apr 2016

Deja DU: Swiftboating Al Gore from Argentina, SIDE, Israeli wire transfers, spy files, forgery, Bush & Menem


There just is no way to make this stuff up!! This is a court pleading. Unbelievable.

First get some spy files from Israel, alter them to look like Argentine spy files, make them implicate Bush and Menem in corruption, blame Gore for the forged documents. Sound familiar. Did I mention blackmailing bribed journalists and, of course, the perennial covert Republican dirty tricksters. This genre of dirty trick came to be known as "swiftboating" when done to Kerry four years later by the same players!!

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http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/041901.P.pdf
Olavar (Triumph Communications International Group, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v.
Santibañes, Defendant-Appellee, and Ikon Holdings, Inc., t/a Ikon Public Affairs, Dick Morris, Roger Stone, Eileen McGann, John Does, Defendants.

Appeal from the United States District Court Decided: December 1, 2005

Triumph Communications International Group, Incorporated is a corporation that provides political consulting and public relations services and is owned and operated solely by Mattie Lolavar.

In early 2000, Miss Lolavar began discussions with defendant Dick Morris about the possibility of her working with Craig Snyder and defendant Roger Stone, who are partners in defendant IKON Holdings, Inc., another political consulting firm ... about the possibility of Triumph Communications’ assistance with work that IKON was doing for the government of Argentina.
These discussions lead to two contracts ... and provided that Triumph would act as a public relations consultant to "the Secretary of Intelligence of Argentina" as well as arrange various media events...

Miss Lolavar went to Argentina in August 2000 to assist de Santibañes with preparations for his testimony in Argentine congressional hearings inquiring into allegations that he and the Argentine intelligence agency, known as SIDE, were responsible for bribing various Argentine senators in exchange for political support. Morris and Stone assigned other tasks to Miss Lolavar while she was in Argentina. Among other acts, they instructed her to contact SIDE and obtain a list of journalists who accepted bribes from that organization in order to harm the credibility of those same journalists in reporting on a bribery scandal surrounding de Santibañes and President de la Rua, as well as requiring her to spread false information to the press concerning de la Rua’s political opponent, Dr. Carlos Menem. The charges and counter-charges related here are from the papers in the court file, as are the other facts.

A request that occasioned controversy between Miss Lolavar and the defendants was Morris and Stone’s request that she serve as an intermediary in an anonymous wire transfer of funds to an official in Israel. These funds were to be paid to secure intelligence files from the Israeli government to assist de la Rua’s political domestic disputes with Menem, and to imply a corrupt relationship between Menem and George W. Bush, who was then running against Albert Gore for the United States presidency. These files were to be altered by Miss Lolavar to appear to be SIDE documents.

When the defendants became concerned that this plot would be discovered and traced back to them, they ordered Miss Lolavar to orchestrate a press response to blame Vice President Gore for the dissemination of the documents,
since it was known to them that the Gore campaign had been attempting to connect Menem with the Bush campaign.

underpants

(182,803 posts)
3. Who the hell IS Roger Stone? His being on CNN is telling
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:41 PM
Apr 2016

I've been flipping around catching the talking heads a bit and this open cheerleader is constantly on CNN. that is as telling as Ginsberg getting busted colluding between W's White Housw, W's 2004 campaign, and the Swift Boaters and then given the choice of which to work for. Tweety then had him in every single night for the last 2 months before the election.

Stone is being given a prominate spot and time FOR WHAT??? Does any other campaign have one of their people regularly invited into "analysis" shows?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
4. You know, people like us are far too ignorant
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 01:58 PM
Apr 2016

to make real connections. Pleasurable paranoid fantasies are available to everyone, of course, but I wouldn't go too far down that dangerous road if I were you. Their creators become invested in them, and the least of the consequences is that invitations drop off and their kids warn everyone not to talk politics around them.

underpants

(182,803 posts)
5. I'll take that as I think it was meant
Thu Apr 28, 2016, 02:56 PM
Apr 2016


It's pretty blatant. "And here's a guy you've never heard of who just happens an advisor to and spokesperson for one of the candidates. We're going to give him the Bill Bennett seat so he can lead discussions and he'll be on every night. "
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