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Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 06:40 PM Dec 2018

A word to Roger Stone: Your life is about to be completely turned upside down.

I don't mean that in the sense that an embarrassing joke photo of you from years ago might surface, or that there might be a few vague, unsubstantiated claims that you grabbed women's rears while posing for photos with them. While that might be enough to derail a career, we're looking at something a little more serious than that.

No...while that might be your idea of having one's "turn in the barrel" to you, what awaits you in the next weeks....months....and years....is actually going to be much, much, much worse than that.

What we're talking about is the indignities of your arrest, arraignment, court appearance after court appearance after mind-numbing court appearance, and--since we know you think somehow think you'll be able to beat it all--a very public trial.

And you won't beat it. You think you will because you are a haughty, narcissistic vain asshole of the highest degree, but Robert Mueller cleaned the clock of your old business partner Paul Manafort, and he's going to do the same with you.

You're going to lose it all, Roger. That home on the ocean in Florida--gone. Your assets--seized. Those outrageous outfits you like to wear--traded for prison scrubs. Social media accounts.....please. They'll be gone.

Even those dumb ass Panama Jack hats you like to wear will be a thing of the past, Roger. They're not coming with you.

You might think you'll end up with three years, like Michael Cohen, and sure, you think, you can handle that.

But you're not getting three years, Roger. Sure, Michael Cohen was a weak little coward who mistakenly thought that being one of Donald Trump's goons would somehow give his life purpose and meaning. And of course, it didn't, and he realized that all after the fact and after the search warrant.

But you're far worse than him, Roger. You're a pathological piece of shit. Your track record over the decades--the lives you've ruined, the injustices you've caused--underscores that fact.

So no, Roger, you won't be getting away with three years. You're going to be doing some hard, hard time.

And here's the thing, Roger--you're not exactly a spring chicken there. You're already 66 years old. Time's a'ticking.

You will die in prison, Roger. When you die, it won't be surrounded by your wife or your son or your grandkids in your bed or even at some hospital or nursing home. It will be at an infirmary at some Federal Correctional Facility out in the middle of BFE.

And you--the great political fixer Roger Stone--will die all alone.

And when you die, after the fact, they'll shove your remains into a plastic bag for your loved ones to claim, like you are piece of dry cleaning or lost luggage at the airport.

And that is how it will end for you, Roger.

You'll be known as Roger Stone, the fixer and dirty political trickster who sold out his country and died in prison.

I hope it was all worth it, Roger. That living the way Roy Cohn taught you--tearing people apart, always lying, always spinning, never admitting the truth--was somehow the way you wanted to live.

If not....well, too bad, so sad.

Welcome to the Barrel, Roger Stone.

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A word to Roger Stone: Your life is about to be completely turned upside down. (Original Post) Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2018 OP
Imagine showering in prison with a Richard Nixon tattoo on your back. LOL. Vinca Dec 2018 #1
He better pray for private showers Just a Weirdo Dec 2018 #8
Can Stone and Flynn be charged for state crimes BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #2
I'm sure, but it depends on where the crimes took place and how eager the local State Attorney is. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2018 #3
Damn, I wish it was NY! BigmanPigman Dec 2018 #5
If Stone was in New York while he broke any of the laws, they'd still have jurisdiction. Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2018 #6
This Dick Tracy villain must go down. Sneederbunk Dec 2018 #4
Get a load of the letter his attys just sent to the HISC... pecosbob Dec 2018 #7
Good! Leith Dec 2018 #9
I have a very visceral reaction to Stone. Nt Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2018 #11
Clear thinking people generally do Leith Dec 2018 #12
Godfather 2.... the Frankie Pentangeli ending.... albacore Dec 2018 #10
I don't think Roger is of that mindset. Nt Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2018 #14
Everone can look at his Nixon tramp stamp that way Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2018 #13
I have to say this warms my heart: Tommy_Carcetti Dec 2018 #15
Lock him up, lock him up Johnny2X2X Dec 2018 #16

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
3. I'm sure, but it depends on where the crimes took place and how eager the local State Attorney is.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 06:46 PM
Dec 2018

Stone is all over the place but based in Broward County, Florida, a liberal leaning part of the state.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
6. If Stone was in New York while he broke any of the laws, they'd still have jurisdiction.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 06:59 PM
Dec 2018

It just matters what happened where.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,181 posts)
15. I have to say this warms my heart:
Fri Dec 21, 2018, 01:14 PM
Dec 2018
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/mueller-appears-close-indicting-stone-alleged-lies/578794/

The Special Counsel Is Bearing Down on Roger Stone


The longtime Trump adviser appears to have asked an associate to obtain anti-Clinton emails from WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign.

Natasha Bertrand
6:00 AM ET

Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, appears to be at the center of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into a potential conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia because of his uncanny predictions throughout 2016 about WikiLeaks, which published Democratic documents stolen by Russia during the election.

The self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” said several times in 2016 that he was directly in touch with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. But he has since walked that back, drawing more scrutiny from congressional and federal investigators and ensnaring several of his contacts in the process. “I had no contact with Assange,” Stone told ABC earlier this month, despite the fact that he exchanged private messages with WikiLeaks on Twitter in October 2016. He also said he would never turn on the president. “There’s no circumstance under which I would testify against the president, because I’d have to bear false witness against him,” Stone said. “I’d have to make things up, and I’m not going to do that.”

Now it could soon be Roger Stone’s time in the barrel. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to release the official transcript of his testimony to Mueller, days after Mueller formally requested it—the last step necessary for prosecutors to bring a charge of lying to Congress, according to The Washington Post.

Mueller’s team has proved highly successful so far in getting even Trump’s most loyal associates to “flip” on the president using criminal charges as leverage. Just this month, Mueller struck a formal cooperation deal with Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen after charging him with lying to Congress about a Russian real-estate deal he and Trump were pursuing in 2016. If Stone is charged by Mueller with a similar crime and decides to cooperate rather than face jail time, it could spell danger for the president. Stone reportedly spoke to Trump regularly during the election, and could be in a position to fill in missing details about the campaign’s ties to WikiLeaks.

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