In a conversation at Mar-a-Lago earlier this year, Republican operative Roger Stone thought he was speaking to a fellow MAGA traveler when he boasted that he and fellow dirty tricksters, who were crying “Stop the Steal” months before the 2020 election even happened, are better prepared this time around to snatch victory from the jaws of electoral defeat.
“At least this time when they do it, you have a lawyer and a judge — his home phone number standing by — so you can stop it,” Stone told Lauren Windsor, a liberal documentary filmmaker who was posing as a supporter and secretly recording him as he spoke this past March about what will happen if the Democratic candidate once again receives more votes than the Republican. Stone, who was only spared a three-year prison term for lying to Congress about Wikileaks and Russia thanks to a pardon from former President Donald Trump, said this time he and his ilk are on an “offensive footing.”
