The footage shows the political operative threatening violence and spelling out plans to fight the election results.
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Political consultant Roger Stone met with House Select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack in Washington in December, 2021.
Danish filmmakers have turned over a trove of evidence to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol, including footage of the political operative Roger J. Stone Jr. texting with a lawyer who represented President Donald J. Trump in his second impeachment trial, seeking a pardon.
The footage also shows Mr. Stone threatening violence and spelling out plans to fight the election results. Some of the material was expected to be featured in the panel’s hearing.
“There will be mass prosecutions,” Mr. Stone wrote to David I. Schoen, the lawyer. “Mark my words.”
Could Mr. Schoen “plug” his pardon request the next time he spoke to the president?
“At this point I’d be happy if he pardoned me and Kerik again,” Mr. Stone wrote to Mr. Schoen, referring to Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner and longtime ally of Mr. Trump who had repeatedly challenged the results of the election. “He’s already pardoned both of us so he would take no heat for it whatsoever.”
The committee obtained the footage from the filmmakers after extensive negotiations, issuing a subpoena and then traveling to Copenhagen to spend a week going through the evidence. They received about 10 minutes out of 170 hours of footage from a crew that trailed Mr. Stone for more than three years to make a documentary titled “A Storm Foretold.”
Source: nytimes.com
