I bet there will be a lot of i do not recalls.
Stone communicated with Guccifer 2.o, a hacker who released DNC emails and who U.S. officials believe is associated with the Russian government, during the 2016 campaign. However, Stone has said that the interaction was “benign”…
I’m sure they were just swapping recipes for hors d’oeuvres.
Trey Gowdy (R-SC): "Thank you for being here today, Mr. Stone. It is an honor to have such a distinguished American appear before us.
“I’d like to cut to the chase and get right to the heart of this matter and address what I consider to be the most important issue: Will you show the committee your tattoo?”
No way to follow that. I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot Lithuanian.
I’m of two minds on the public testimony. 1) It would be interesting to have that snake exposed in a public hearing, but 2) you have more opportunity to get some information from him in a private hearing without all the grandstanding by both Stone and House members. 3) Maybe it doesn’t matter, since it is the House, anyway.
On a related note, what is keeping me up at night is the the following scenario…in 2020, Trump mired in the 30’s approval ratings pulls off a narrow upset victory with the help of the Russian’s hacking tabulating machines and the GOP pulls off several narrow surprise victories to maintain the House and the Senate. The results are highly anomalous and obvious to many to be off, but no smoking guns…who stops Trump from taking office again in 2021? Trump sews enough doubt in polls, exit polls and the media with his idiotic supporters, he still holds the reins of power and the military and a GOP congress won’t do anything… . So…in 3 election cycles we have lost our democracy–possibly forever. This now seems plausible to me.
This sleazy punk’s been pushing his luck for 50 years. I really, really hope he’s finally pushed it too far. But I guess we’ll just have to stay tuned.
Everyone in DC (save Donnie) would love to rid politics of this man. Unfortunately, he’s more slippery than an eel and will survive this, too.
““I am confident that Podesta most likely repeated his lie that I knew in advance about the hacking of his email, and am anxious to rebut this falsehood,” Stone said in a statement to CNN.I am still unhappy that my testimony will not be in public, but believe it is more important to resolve the question of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign — which I believe was nonexistent.”
In other words, Roger Stone intends to repeat the Trump-GOP lie that collusion is non-existent, even though he his fucking self communicated with Gucifer 2.0. Well, at least he will become guilty of obstructing congress, and we will be spared the spectacle of the GOP members kissing his ass and teeing up softballs for him/Trump.
To quote Rachel Maddow
" I have suffered from lack of imagination as I have seen thing I could not have imagined"
Imagine the craziest sci -fi Idiocracy plot you could conceive
All within the realm of possibility my friends
All plausible
He has a Dick on his back!?! He should get that cut off is some kind of gender reassignment procedure.
Now would this guy be the grand stander/show boater Trumpy is complaining about?
All the more reason to have him in a closed hearing so that the type of grandstanding and showboating doesn’t accomplish what he hopes it will, and his GOP enablers in the hearing don’t go out of their way to support his deceitfulness.
Personally, I hope they also have Ghouliani testify in a closed hearing as well because he too seemed to have made highly suspicious statements about the FBI releasing information to him, coming out of the NY field office, that was intended to smear Hillary, and that was highly suspect during the campaign.
Why? These guys lie so easily, without any sense of guilt or impropriety why would we expect them to even give a hint of truth in these hearings?
In 1996, Stone resigned from a post as a volunteer spokesman in Senator Bob Dole’s campaign for president after The National Enquirer wrote that Stone had placed ads and pictures in racy swingers publications and a website seeking sexual partners for himself and his second wife. Stone initially denied the report. On the Good Morning America program he said: “An exhaustive investigation now indicates that a domestic employee who I discharged for substance abuse on the second time that we learned that he had a drug problem is the perpetrator who had access to my home, access to my computer, access to my password, access to my postage meter, access to my post-office box key”. In a 2008 interview with The New Yorker Stone admitted that the ads were authentic.
I just love that story.
When is the last time Giuliani made a public appearance?
The guy never shuts up. His silence can only mean he has legal worries, IMO.
I do think having this hearing in private is a good thing. Stone was planning to grand stand for Trump and turn it into a pro-Trump infomercial. Stone seems like one of those guys who has been around DC pols for so long that he thinks he knows how everything works and he’s not touchable. He’s going to lie up there and get screwed.
Most things Stoney does in closed chambers usually involves whips and chains. Hopefully the Committee will follow suit.
Yecchhh! Roger Stone makes Mitch McConnell look like Matt Bomer by comparison.
And how come these brave, upstanding, innocent Republican victims of “fake news” always want to testify away from the public?
My understanding is that, if you go to the same swinger parties that he and the missus have over the years, you can see plenty of it while you’re working him over…
…whether you’re a boy or a girl.