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BumRushDaShow

(130,139 posts)
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 06:37 PM Nov 2021

Roger Stone and Alex Jones subpoenaed by House committee investigating Jan. 6 attack on Capitol

Source: Washington Post

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol issued subpoenas Monday to more people involved with the ‘Stop the Steal’ rally, including conspiracy theorist and right wing media figure Alex Jones and longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone.

The committee has asked Stone and Jones to provide testimony by Dec. 17 and Dec, 18, respectively, and to provide the panel with requested documents by Dec. 6.

Committee Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote Jones, the host of InfoWars, that his coordination with Cindy Chafian and Caroline Wren in organizing the rally that preceded the attack on the Capitol, along with his promotion of Trump’s false claims of election fraud and urging of people to travel to Washington for the Jan. 6 rally make him a person of interest.

Thompson cites Stone’s appearance at rallies on Jan. 5 at the Supreme Court and Freedom Plaza as reason for the subpoena and his use of “Oath Keepers as personal security guards, several of whom were reportedly involved in the attack on the Capitol and at least one of whom has been indicted.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/roger-stone-and-alex-jones-subpoenaed-by-house-committee-investigating-jan-6-attack-on-capitol-by-pro-trump-mob/2021/11/22/ed11e440-4bc5-11ec-a1b9-9f12bd39487a_story.html



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Full headline: Roger Stone and Alex Jones subpoenaed by House committee investigating Jan. 6 attack on Capitol by pro-Trump mob
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Roger Stone and Alex Jones subpoenaed by House committee investigating Jan. 6 attack on Capitol (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Nov 2021 OP
And the hits keep coming for Jones 😂😂😂 Itchinjim Nov 2021 #1
Seriously, no punishment is too good for that POS! Initech Nov 2021 #7
Great news, now if we can drag hannity and tucker Beachnutt Nov 2021 #2
So, it now enters the comedy phase.... OnDoutside Nov 2021 #3
Oh no! They issued some subpoenas! Tacan Nov 2021 #4
Reminder...one of these exact same Congressional subphoenas has led to one indictment Alexander Of Assyria Nov 2021 #9
It's about damn time!!! Initech Nov 2021 #5
I had never seen Alex Jones though I'd read about him captain queeg Nov 2021 #6
He fancied himself a "young" BumRushDaShow Nov 2021 #11
If ever two assholes deserved to be convicted and locked up, they are poster children. Evolve Dammit Nov 2021 #8
Hmm... jmowreader Nov 2021 #10
Got it in one! Ford_Prefect Nov 2021 #18
.... orangecrush Nov 2021 #26
.... trusty elf Nov 2021 #12
Ari Melber covering this now with Neal Katyal Bayard Nov 2021 #13
He plies his corruption without interruption, with cockups and hustles, connive, connive oh! DFW Nov 2021 #14
Jones won't show up Sanity Claws Nov 2021 #15
They'll probably be happy to repeat the Bannon process, if necessary. Gore1FL Nov 2021 #16
Please not Alex Jones. Avoid the circus of insanity. n/t PoliticAverse Nov 2021 #17
They will refuse pfitz59 Nov 2021 #19
Unfortunately, I think you might be right. TheRickles Nov 2021 #24
Precisely Sherman A1 Nov 2021 #33
... SheltieLover Nov 2021 #20
I want both those bastards locked away! calimary Nov 2021 #21
Joyce Vance summed this up quite well, gab13by13 Nov 2021 #22
This should be good Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2021 #23
.... orangecrush Nov 2021 #25
May as well prepare the indictments now. LudwigPastorius Nov 2021 #27
To quote Jackie Gleason, "How sweet it is!" Liberty Belle Nov 2021 #28
Throw Roger in the Cone of Solitude Blue Owl Nov 2021 #29
I have questions quakerboy Nov 2021 #30
I dream of getting Roger Stone in a headlock. zanana1 Nov 2021 #31
Stone him Slammer Nov 2021 #32
I want a front row seat for this one. nt leftyladyfrommo Nov 2021 #34
Sigh... RevBrotherThomas Nov 2021 #35
 

Alexander Of Assyria

(7,839 posts)
9. Reminder...one of these exact same Congressional subphoenas has led to one indictment
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 07:09 PM
Nov 2021

for contempt.

Many more to come, process first, indictment second…and so on.

Oh no, I am in jail!

captain queeg

(10,313 posts)
6. I had never seen Alex Jones though I'd read about him
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 07:05 PM
Nov 2021

I went to usurp a friend and he was going out when I got there so I went into the living room to wait for him. He had Alex Jones on. Loud. He knows I don’t like the guy and turned it off when he got back inside. He starting telling me he doesn’t trust the government so he likes to hear both sides of things and decide for himself. I told him that’s a good idea,but when someone spouts bold face lies I turn them off both literally and figuratively. I wasn’t going to argue about it. But I’d never seen Alex in action before. Like most of those types he cherry picks a couple things and ignores the rest when he is pushing his agenda. Sometimes I wonder if these RW nutters really believe what they are saying or if they are just profiting off the rubes. I suspect it’s a little of both.

BumRushDaShow

(130,139 posts)
11. He fancied himself a "young"
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 07:18 PM
Nov 2021

Rush Limbaugh (23 year age difference) and essentially copied the grumbling and huffing cadence and tone of him. But by the time he entered the RW radio scene, the field was already crowded with loons so he had to go to the next level of crazy CT to get attention.

jmowreader

(50,603 posts)
10. Hmm...
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 07:13 PM
Nov 2021

“Alex Jones, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?”

“I’m Alex Fucking Jones, motherfucker!”

“So, that’s a no.”

Bayard

(22,250 posts)
13. Ari Melber covering this now with Neal Katyal
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 07:33 PM
Nov 2021

He's saying this is about finding out how involved trump was in the plotting of the Jan. 6th insurrection.

Gore1FL

(21,183 posts)
16. They'll probably be happy to repeat the Bannon process, if necessary.
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 08:03 PM
Nov 2021

He'll be on the legal hook, at least.

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
33. Precisely
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 07:21 AM
Nov 2021

If they do show up at anytime in the future they will just invoke the fifth amendment and it will be a complete waste of time. Laws don’t apply to folks like this.

gab13by13

(21,516 posts)
22. Joyce Vance summed this up quite well,
Mon Nov 22, 2021, 08:48 PM
Nov 2021

Joyce said that there is enough information out there right now for DOJ to open up a criminal investigation. I appreciate the work of the select committee, we needed it, but for justice to prevail we need DOJ to run with the ball. Joyce went on to say, assuming that DOJ investigates, that it then must make a choice whether to indict. She also said that whatever path DOJ chooses it owes it to the American people to explain its actions or inactions.

Remember this, those people subpoenaed can show up and plead the 5th. The select committee is limited, DOJ has more clout.

quakerboy

(13,925 posts)
30. I have questions
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 01:57 AM
Nov 2021

Mainly.. If i understand right.. they refuse, get referred for contempt. Assuming they are found guilty, they spend up to a year in jail.

What happens at the end of that?

Can they still be required to bring the evidence and testimony? Go through it again? How many repeated investigations can we have (the benghazi experience seems to indicate a lot)

Slammer

(714 posts)
32. Stone him
Tue Nov 23, 2021, 07:17 AM
Nov 2021

Stone deserves to be in jail just for the threats he made to non-Trump delegates (on behalf of Trump) before the Republican convention in 2016.

It'd be really sweet if they could nail him on anything at all.

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