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1/6 -Missouri's Attorney General's Office and dark money groups issued a robocall recruiting people
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After the January 6 “Stop the Steal” event at the Capitol, @MarkPedroli and I requested records of communications between Missouri’s Attorney General’s Office and dark money groups that issued a robocall recruiting people to the event.
We received 90 pages of documents that show the influence of these secretive organizations over state Attorneys General and their staff.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BigElad/status/1364335691149303813?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1436413059908575233%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es4_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Fmslindanash2Fstatus2F1436413059908575233widget%3DTweet
My report
: https://b32a21b6-c9e4-4029-a347-89a5b165c921.filesusr.com/ugd/37e92a_cb6008165d8549d4aa339a8f15e0e626.pdf
Josh Hawley's State of Missouri AG & dark money groups, robocalled recruits for Jan 6th 'Stop The Steal'
The connection of 2000-Roger Stone & Infowars' election meddling of Bush/Gore, claiming 'It's Rigged', became the model for Citizens United dark money & 2016 Clinton/Trump & the 'It's rigged' claims of Biden/Trump in 2020, leading to the organizing of Jan 6, 2021.
Trump pardoned Roger Stone, whose duty was to throw elections from 2000, 2016 & 2020, along with RW media blasting the 'It's Rigged' mantra
2016 Clinton's platform called for an end to Citizen's United Dark Money groups.
This would have dented the efforts of the Missouri AG's robocall recruiting for what became the attack on the US Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. Just to name one reason why they & Media ran an entire campaign of hate against HRC in 2016 & Biden in 2020.
Where Roger Stone & RW media existed, there was a concerted driven mission to upend Democracy via our election system.
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1/6 -Missouri's Attorney General's Office and dark money groups issued a robocall recruiting people (Original Post)
Budi
Sep 2021
OP
Another nefarious, secret way for republican scumbags to game even more control, using
SWBTATTReg
Sep 2021
#3
Backseat Driver
(4,385 posts)1. K & R for lots of visibility - seems an important and possible
"tap root" to the organizing of the domestic insurrectionists that day...how reprehensible!
Budi
(15,325 posts)2. Indeed. A lot of well sourced info connecting the path to a coup.
This is why Trump pardoned Stone also.
Stone's been involved in upending Democratic elections way back to Bill Clinton.
Recall that Bill Clinton was warned by the RW (yes, conspiracy) early in his 90 campaign to NOT run against GW or they would destroy him forever.
And every election since then has been met with the growing & organizing on all RW fronts to bring us to today.
SWBTATTReg
(22,100 posts)3. Another nefarious, secret way for republican scumbags to game even more control, using
the power of their elected offices for 'political' activities...their own political activities and NOT things that Missourians really need done, vs. the nonsense issues that republican AGs have all been jumping on, again, for their own political reasons, not the state of MO business things that need doing, for everyone's welfare in the state of MO.
And these people claim that they're not being partisan, yet they immediately claim that everyone else is partisan...
Hypocrites.
Budi
(15,325 posts)5. Missouri AG is repeating Texas AG. The similarities are from the same damned Playbook.
Political dark money funding has got to be ripped from existance.
Once & For All..-~ snip quoting hrc 1995 Bejing
Budi
(15,325 posts)4. WaPo article in Feb made the connection between Stone & Infowars RW Media
U.S. investigating possible ties between Roger Stone, Alex Jones and Capitol rioters
SNIP..(behind WaPo Paywall)
The Justice Department and the FBI are investigating whether high-profile right-wing figures — including Roger Stone and Alex Jones — may have played a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach as part of a broader look into the mind-set of those who committed violence and their apparent paths to radicalization, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The investigation into potential ties between key figures in the riot and those who promoted former president Donald Trump’s false assertions that the election was stolen from him does not mean those who may have influenced rioters will face criminal charges, particularly given U.S. case law surrounding incitement and free speech, the people said. Officials at this stage said they are principally seeking to understand what the rioters were thinking — and who may have influenced beliefs — which could be critical to showing their intentions at trial.
However, investigators also want to determine whether anyone who influenced them bears enough responsibility to justify potential criminal charges, such as conspiracy or aiding the effort, the officials said. That prospect is still distant and uncertain, they emphasized.
Nevertheless, while Trump’s impeachment trial focused on the degree of his culpability for the violence, this facet of the case shows investigators’ ongoing interest in other individuals who never set foot in the Capitol but may have played an outsized role in what happened there through their influence, networks or action.
Stone is a longtime adviser to Trump, while Jones is a radio and Web-streaming host behind Infowars.com. Both are frequent purveyors of conspiracy theories: Stone wrote a book suggesting Lyndon B. Johnson was behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination; Jones has spread and retracted claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a “hoax.”
All three amplified and intensified Trump’s incendiary and baseless claims that the 2020 election was illegitimate in the weeks leading up to the riot. But Stone and Alexander have directly credited each other with inspiring and planning the pro-Trump Stop the Steal campaign, with Alexander saying he came up with the idea and helped organize the Jan. 6 rally that drew Trump supporters to Washington. Stone and Jones also promoted the extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and had preexisting business or personal ties with members the government has charged with coordinating and planning certain parts of the breach or in connection with violence at an earlier Trump rally, records and documents show.
A key task for prosecutors and agents is to sift through the multitude of motives and intentions of the roughly 800 people in the mob that descended upon the Capitol — from those who came as individuals drawn to the idea of derailing Joe Biden’s presidency before it began, to those who allegedly began organizing immediately after the election to show up in Washington in large numbers to use force to try to keep Trump in power.
The U.S. official and others familiar with the investigation cautioned that the role of firebrands like Stone and Jones may be important mostly to painting a complete picture of that day’s events, regardless of whether they ultimately rise to the level of conspiracy or other crimes.
Stone and Jones helped promote Trump’s false election fraud claims and earlier rallies in Washington and participated in pro-Trump events Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, but each has denied intending anything beyond peaceful protest.
Shortly after the riot, Jones said on Infowars that he was invited by the White House on about Jan. 3 to “lead the march” to the Capitol, and that he paid nearly $500,000, mostly donated, to help organize the event on the Ellipse.
Jones promoted the event vigorously, called for 1 million marchers and told his viewers on Jan. 1, “Roger Stone spent some substantial time with Trump in Florida just a few days ago, and I’m told big things are afoot and Trump’s got major actions up his sleeve.”
A day before the insurrection, Jones urged a pro-Trump crowd at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington “to resist the globalists” with his refrain, “I don’t know how all this is all going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they’ve got one!” In a Jan. 6 post from near the same spot, he declared “1776” — a term co-opted by Trump fans urging a kind of second revolution against the government. “We’re under attack, and we need to understand this is 21st-century warfare and get on a war footing,” Jones said.
On that day, however, Jones said, he followed, not led, the rally crowd as people moved toward the Capitol, and became alarmed by the chaos.
“Let’s not fight the police and give the system what they want,” Jones was recorded shouting. His attorney Marc Randazza said the video shows Jones urged calm, adding, “If you wish to know what Alex Jones’ role was [on Jan. 6]....
Later Jones is heard saying, “Trump is going to speak over here! Trump is coming!” in what appears to be an attempt to distract and move a crowd away from the building’s embattled west front.
Stone has also publicly distanced himself from the violence and criticized it, telling Moscow-funded RT television on Jan. 8 that he was invited to lead a march but “I declined.”
SNIP
In the Jan. 5 speech, Stone characterized the next day’s events as “an epic struggle for the future of this country between dark and light . . . the godly and the godless . . . good and evil.”
*The Rest of the article from FEB 2021, is at WAPO link & behind a paywall ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/stone-jones-capitol-riot-investigation-radicalization/2021/02/19/97d6e6ee-6cad-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html#click=https://t.co/v6x0otPG09
If anyone deserves to be in prison for life via the JAN 6 Commission, it is Roger Stone & Alex Jones.
SNIP..(behind WaPo Paywall)
The Justice Department and the FBI are investigating whether high-profile right-wing figures — including Roger Stone and Alex Jones — may have played a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach as part of a broader look into the mind-set of those who committed violence and their apparent paths to radicalization, according to people familiar with the investigation.
The investigation into potential ties between key figures in the riot and those who promoted former president Donald Trump’s false assertions that the election was stolen from him does not mean those who may have influenced rioters will face criminal charges, particularly given U.S. case law surrounding incitement and free speech, the people said. Officials at this stage said they are principally seeking to understand what the rioters were thinking — and who may have influenced beliefs — which could be critical to showing their intentions at trial.
However, investigators also want to determine whether anyone who influenced them bears enough responsibility to justify potential criminal charges, such as conspiracy or aiding the effort, the officials said. That prospect is still distant and uncertain, they emphasized.
Nevertheless, while Trump’s impeachment trial focused on the degree of his culpability for the violence, this facet of the case shows investigators’ ongoing interest in other individuals who never set foot in the Capitol but may have played an outsized role in what happened there through their influence, networks or action.
Stone is a longtime adviser to Trump, while Jones is a radio and Web-streaming host behind Infowars.com. Both are frequent purveyors of conspiracy theories: Stone wrote a book suggesting Lyndon B. Johnson was behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination; Jones has spread and retracted claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a “hoax.”
All three amplified and intensified Trump’s incendiary and baseless claims that the 2020 election was illegitimate in the weeks leading up to the riot. But Stone and Alexander have directly credited each other with inspiring and planning the pro-Trump Stop the Steal campaign, with Alexander saying he came up with the idea and helped organize the Jan. 6 rally that drew Trump supporters to Washington. Stone and Jones also promoted the extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and had preexisting business or personal ties with members the government has charged with coordinating and planning certain parts of the breach or in connection with violence at an earlier Trump rally, records and documents show.
A key task for prosecutors and agents is to sift through the multitude of motives and intentions of the roughly 800 people in the mob that descended upon the Capitol — from those who came as individuals drawn to the idea of derailing Joe Biden’s presidency before it began, to those who allegedly began organizing immediately after the election to show up in Washington in large numbers to use force to try to keep Trump in power.
The U.S. official and others familiar with the investigation cautioned that the role of firebrands like Stone and Jones may be important mostly to painting a complete picture of that day’s events, regardless of whether they ultimately rise to the level of conspiracy or other crimes.
Stone and Jones helped promote Trump’s false election fraud claims and earlier rallies in Washington and participated in pro-Trump events Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, but each has denied intending anything beyond peaceful protest.
Shortly after the riot, Jones said on Infowars that he was invited by the White House on about Jan. 3 to “lead the march” to the Capitol, and that he paid nearly $500,000, mostly donated, to help organize the event on the Ellipse.
Jones promoted the event vigorously, called for 1 million marchers and told his viewers on Jan. 1, “Roger Stone spent some substantial time with Trump in Florida just a few days ago, and I’m told big things are afoot and Trump’s got major actions up his sleeve.”
A day before the insurrection, Jones urged a pro-Trump crowd at Freedom Plaza in downtown Washington “to resist the globalists” with his refrain, “I don’t know how all this is all going to end, but if they want to fight, they better believe they’ve got one!” In a Jan. 6 post from near the same spot, he declared “1776” — a term co-opted by Trump fans urging a kind of second revolution against the government. “We’re under attack, and we need to understand this is 21st-century warfare and get on a war footing,” Jones said.
On that day, however, Jones said, he followed, not led, the rally crowd as people moved toward the Capitol, and became alarmed by the chaos.
“Let’s not fight the police and give the system what they want,” Jones was recorded shouting. His attorney Marc Randazza said the video shows Jones urged calm, adding, “If you wish to know what Alex Jones’ role was [on Jan. 6]....
Later Jones is heard saying, “Trump is going to speak over here! Trump is coming!” in what appears to be an attempt to distract and move a crowd away from the building’s embattled west front.
Stone has also publicly distanced himself from the violence and criticized it, telling Moscow-funded RT television on Jan. 8 that he was invited to lead a march but “I declined.”
SNIP
In the Jan. 5 speech, Stone characterized the next day’s events as “an epic struggle for the future of this country between dark and light . . . the godly and the godless . . . good and evil.”
*The Rest of the article from FEB 2021, is at WAPO link & behind a paywall ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/stone-jones-capitol-riot-investigation-radicalization/2021/02/19/97d6e6ee-6cad-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html#click=https://t.co/v6x0otPG09
If anyone deserves to be in prison for life via the JAN 6 Commission, it is Roger Stone & Alex Jones.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)6. Bust that guy!
Missouri needs him gone, like yesterday.
Parsons can go with him!
Rebl2
(13,485 posts)7. I wish
