Stone calls on Trump to seize power and jail Clintons and Zuckerberg

ROGER Stone, who earlier this year had his 40-month prison sentence for perjury in Congress and witness tampering in the Russia probe reduced on the recommendation of Attorney-General William Barr, has told conspiracy theorist Alex Jones on his online The Alex Jones Show that Trump should seize power if he loses to Joe Biden in the US presidential election in November.

He suggested that Trump should then jail big names, including Bill and Hillary Clinton and Mark Zuckerberg.

Citing widely circulated suspicions of fraud around early voting, absentee balloting, and voting by mail raised by conservatives over Democrat-promoted ways of non-in-person voting, the long-time Republican strategist inferred that Trump should consider invoking the Insurrection Act and arresting the aforementioned figures along with Tim Cook of Apple and “anybody else who can be proven to be involved in illegal activity”.

Stone took special aim at the state of Nevada, which has not gone to a Republican candidate since 2004, but is set to become a battlefield state in the upcoming vote.

“The ballots in Nevada on election night should be seized by federal marshals and taken from the state.

“They are completely corrupted. No votes should be counted from the state of Nevada if that turns out to be the provable case.

“Send federal marshals to the Clark County Board of Elections, Mr President!” Stone said.

Trump’s own rhetoric was similar to that of his previously convicted campaign adviser, whose January 2019 sentence he commuted due to being “unjust”, saying that it had targeted Stone in an illegal “witch hunt that never should have taken place” – a reference to the probe into alleged Russia-Trump collusion before the 2016 election.

Stone also called for the formation of “an election day operation using the FBI, federal marshals and Republican state officials across the country to be prepared to file legal objections (to the results) and, if necessary, to physically stand in the way of criminal activity”.

In tune with Stone’s stance, in an interview broadcast on Saturday night, Trump told Fox News he would eagerly “put down” any left-wing protests. He promised to do so very quickly should such a necessity arise.

“We have the right to do that. We have the power to do that if we want. Look, it’s called insurrection.”