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Ohio Joe

(21,807 posts)
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:05 PM Jan 2024

Revealed: Roger Stone's Secret Call With Proud Boys Leader in Lead-Up to Jan. 6

BACK IN SEPTEMBER, Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison on “seditious conspiracy” charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, raid of the U.S. Capitol.

According to the Justice Department, the far-right group “played a central role in setting the January 6th attack on our Capitol into motion,” and as its leader, Tarrio created a special group within the militant organization called the Ministry of Self Defense that “established a chain of command, chose a time and place for their attack, and intentionally recruited others who would follow their top-down leadership and who were prepared to engage in physical violence if necessary.” As his Proud Boys were storming the Capitol and assaulting police officers, Tarrio urged them on in encrypted group chats and on social media, later writing, “Make no mistake… we did this.”

The key link between the Proud Boys and the Trump campaign appears to be none other than Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative dating back to the days of Richard Nixon who Ted Cruz once called “Trump’s henchman and dirty trickster.” Stone, one of the architects of Trump’s “Stop the Steal” campaign following his 2020 election loss, reportedly hired the Proud Boys as his security at a 2018 GOP conference in Oregon, and Tarrio has been captured on several occasions wearing a T-shirt that read, “Roger Stone is innocent.” The House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack revealed that Stone regularly communicated with Proud Boys members, including Tarrio, in the months leading up to the insurrection in an encrypted group chat called “Friends of Stone.”



https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/roger-stone-secret-call-proud-boys-leader-enrique-tarrio-a-storm-foretold-doc-1234939906/

I look forward to Stone dying in prison.
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Revealed: Roger Stone's Secret Call With Proud Boys Leader in Lead-Up to Jan. 6 (Original Post) Ohio Joe Jan 2024 OP
It was a planned insurrection by many. republianmushroom Jan 2024 #1
After tfg's trial Ohio Joe Jan 2024 #2
I'll believe it when it happens not before with the slow footing DoJ. republianmushroom Jan 2024 #3
Obviously not so secret. Wonder Why Jan 2024 #4
Stick him in the same cell block as Dump and Rudy Blue Owl Jan 2024 #5
Kr UTUSN Jan 2024 #6

republianmushroom

(14,659 posts)
1. It was a planned insurrection by many.
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:15 PM
Jan 2024

When does the DoJ go after the rest of the insurrectionist or will or do they for insurrection ?

35 months and counting

Ohio Joe

(21,807 posts)
2. After tfg's trial
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 02:26 PM
Jan 2024

Smith has a lot of unindicted co-conspirators listed and lined up. He appears to want to get tfg to trial and convicted first so as not to waste time or muddie the waters.

Blue Owl

(51,196 posts)
5. Stick him in the same cell block as Dump and Rudy
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 07:39 PM
Jan 2024

Let him bask in the horrible smells for the rest of his miserable life

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