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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 11:44 AM Aug 2017

'Violence and insurrection': GOP 'dirty tricks' operative warns Trump impeachment will unleash...

‘Violence and insurrection’: GOP ‘dirty tricks’ operative warns Trump impeachment will unleash ‘civil war’

DAVID FERGUSON
24 AUG 2017 AT 11:22 ET

Longtime confidant to President Donald Trump and notorious Republican “dirty tricks” operative Roger Stone Jr. told TMZ that Trump supporters will turn violent and spark a “civil war” if their president is impeached.

“The people who are calling for impeachment didn’t vote for him,” Stone told a reporter who intercepted him at the baggage claim area of Los Angeles International Airport. “They need to get over it. They lost.”

“Try to impeach him, just try it,” he said, becoming animated. “You will have a spasm of violence in this country and insurrection like you’ve never seen.”

“Do you think?” the reporter asked.

“No question,” Stone went on. “Both sides are heavily armed, my friend.” A politician who votes for impeachment, he said, “would be endangering their own life.”

more + video:
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/violence-and-insurrection-gop-dirty-tricks-operative-warns-trump-impeachment-will-unleash-civil-war/
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tonyt53

(5,737 posts)
4. What that moron and the alt-right tend to forget is that us on the other side own guns too.
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 11:49 AM
Aug 2017

Lots on our side, including me, also took an oath to protect against enemies both foreign and domestic. They will be like that chicken shit coward that just turned himself in. A crying coward unless he is surrounded by his buddies with guns. They like to play army, but never served. They too are chicken shit cowards. Bring it on cowards. Bring it on.

 

WinkyDink

(51,311 posts)
5. A case where syntax counts! I thought he was warning Trump! No; it's "warns THAT Trump impeachment
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 11:51 AM
Aug 2017

will unleash......"!

Doreen

(11,686 posts)
7. Well, wait a minute. If trump got impeached it would have to be HIS people
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 12:13 PM
Aug 2017

who would do that wouldn't it? There are not enough Democrats to impeach him. It would be the deplorable's ( AKA: KKK, White Supremacists, and Haters ) administration's decision.

Orrex

(63,263 posts)
8. Extortion to keep a false president in office?
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 12:16 PM
Aug 2017

Yeah, that's a clear indication of a healthy republic.

Gman

(24,780 posts)
12. He was quoted a few weeks ago as saying
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 12:57 PM
Aug 2017

There will be blood in the streets. If that's not sedition, I don't know what is. Or it's not a thing anymore.

librechik

(30,678 posts)
13. first we need them to get off the couch
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 01:04 PM
Aug 2017

and now that they know they will be opposed by people with shields, they won't win so fuck that insurrection BS.

Mr. Ected

(9,675 posts)
14. Thing is, there MAY be insurrection among some in Trump's base if he was to be impeached
Thu Aug 24, 2017, 01:06 PM
Aug 2017

I have no doubts that the divisive righteousness preached by Trump, coupled by his disinformation campaign against the media, the judiciary, the intelligence community, the Democrats, and some in his own party, with a healthy dose of 2nd Amendment added for flavor, will lead some to violence.

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