Apparently Roger Stone had a
Danish documentarian film crew following him around through the election and Jan 6 and afterwards.
Washington Post has reviewed 20 hours of the raw footage. It's a very long article. This condenses some of the Jan 6 coverage, and the later fallout as Stone tried to get pardons for everybody.
Stone privately coordinated post-election protests with prominent figures, and in January he communicated by text message with leaders of far-right groups that had been involved in the attack on the Capitol, the footage shows.
A few hours before the Jan. 6 attack, the video shows, a member of the far-right Oath Keepers group — who has since
pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy — was in Stone’s suite at the Willard.
Stone used an encrypted messaging app later in January to communicate with Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes, who is also charged with seditious conspiracy, and Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, the footage shows.
After he left Washington [later on the 6th], Stone lobbied for Trump to enact the “Stone Plan” — a blanket presidential pardon to shield himself, Trump’s allies in Congress and “the America First movement” from prosecution for trying to overturn the election, according to the footage
But the plan ... was ultimately thwarted by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Stone said in several conversations that were filmed.
“See you in prison,” Stone wrote that evening in a message to another Trump associate.
--flashback to early on Jan 6--
[Stone is on a phone call with someone willing to pay Stone $100,000 in exchange for a pardon.]
Over the previous several months, the filmmakers had recorded Stone working to obtain pardons for other felons. In an October 2020 call with one prisoner’s representative, Stone stressed the influence of Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law and aide. “I’ve got to know that Jared’s got the paperwork and he ‘gets it,’ ” Stone said.
[As the Stop the Steal rallies were taking place, and Stone was not on stage]
“I just caused a little problem for them with Julie Fancelli,” Stone said. “I just told her, ‘You spent 300 grand and neither [Alex] Jones nor I are speaking.’ ” [This relates to the backstage drama in
post 18 - Fancelli was the main financial backer behind Wren.]
Stone condemned the riot to the filmmakers at 4:18 p.m., saying: “I think it’s really bad for the movement. It hurts, it doesn’t help. I’m not sure what they thought they were going to achieve.”
Back in Florida, Stone lobbied for the Stone Plan, which called for Trump to preemptively pardon Republicans including Sens. Ted Cruz (Tex.) and Josh Hawley (Mo.) and Reps. Matt Gaetz (Fla.) and Jim Jordan (Ohio), all of whom tried on Jan. 6 to delay or block the certification of Biden’s victory.
Stone’s plan also proposed a pardon for former Seminole County, Fla., tax collector Joel Greenberg (R), who had been indicted on charges that included the sex trafficking of an underage girl.
Stone’s pardon wish list also included Michael Sessa and Victor Orena, former members of the Colombo crime family serving life sentences for murder and racketeering convictions in the 1990s.
[Ultimately the plan included a second, fresher, blanket pardon for Roger Stone himself. As well as blanket pardons for just about anyone with a red hat. Stone didn't get his pardon. But who did? Steve Bannon.]
Later that night, the White House confirmed it: Trump
had pardoned Bannon, who was under indictment
on federal fraud charges. The decision enraged Stone, who called Bannon a “grifter scumbag” and two expletives while he was filmed.
[Remember Stone's praise of Kushner on the earlier pardons?]
Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, had recently bought a $32 million lot on Indian Creek Island, a gated village in Biscayne Bay off Miami, and rented a condo nearby.
“In two weeks he’s moving to Miami,” Stone told Alejandro, before whispering: “He’s going to get a beating. He needs to have a beating. And needs to be told, ‘This time we’re just beating you. Next time we’re killing you.’ ” Aware the filmmakers were nearby, Alejandro urged Stone to say he was joking. “No, no, it isn’t joking. Not joking. It’s not a joke,” Stone replied.
