“Roger Stone is now under investigation by the FBI And the Capitol Police for trying to hire a hitman to take out members of congress. Former Prosecutor and Legal AF Host, Karen Friedman Agnifilo reports.”
“It’s time to do it,” the speaker (Roger Stone) can be heard saying. “Let’s go find Swalwell. It’s time to do it. Then we’ll see how brave the rest of them are. It’s time to do it. It’s either Swalwell or Nadler has to die before the election. They need to get the message…”
Mr. Stone, a self-described “political dirty trickster,” has a history of making remarks that have either threatened or outright called for violence, though some of his statements have turned out to be more hyperbolic than actually dangerous.
In 2019, during his criminal prosecution on charges of obstructing a congressional inquiry into Russian interference in the 2016 election, he had members of the far-right Proud Boys put online an image of the judge in the case beside the cross hairs of a rifle. And in a documentary film about his role in helping Mr. Trump remain in power after losing the 2020 election, Mr. Stone was caught on camera laying out plans to create and exploit uncertainty about the election results to help Mr. Trump cling to power.
“Let’s get right to the violence,” he says at one point. “Shoot to kill.”
Federal prosecutors, as part of their investigation into the events of Jan. 6, 2021, examined whether a member of the Proud Boys and other people close to Mr. Stone used an attempt to foment street protests against a potential recount in a 2018 Florida Senate race as a model for the violence that erupted at the Capitol.
That investigation focused on whether the Proud Boy, Jacob Engels, who was with Mr. Stone in Washington on Jan. 5 and 6, had any ties to a Miami-based cryptocurrency promoter who gave Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, a document titled “1776 Returns.” The document contained a detailed plan to surveil and storm government buildings around the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Mr. Greco was also with Mr. Stone in Washington on Jan. 5 and 6 and was in contact by phone with Mr. Engels at least 15 times that month and the month before, according to the final report from Mr. Greco’s internal Police Department trial.
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The New York Times
Authorities Investigate Threats to Democratic Lawmakers
The inquiry by the Capitol Police and the F.B.I. came after a website released a recording that it said captured Roger J. Stone Jr. in 2020 expressing a desire for the deaths of two Trump critics.
Jan. 16, 2024
By Alan Feuer and Luke Broadwater
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