Roger Stone's viral video and the GOP’s steep decline

It may be comforting to think that the MAGA movement suddenly took over the party and brought with it anti-democratic ideas, but Stone's 50-year career proves otherwise.

In December, Roger Stone, the longtime political operative, GOP dirty trickster and Donald Trump confidante and fixer, was called to testify to the House committee investigating the violent events at the Capitol that occurred on Jan. 6, 2021. Stone refused and invoked his Fifth Amendment right.

When the committee convenes next, Stone will not be asked to testify, but it is expected the public will still hear from him. This time it will be in the form of clips from a documentary called “A Storm Foretold,” in which Stone encourages violence. The Washington Post first reported on the film in March. The filmmakers recently handed over to the House committee footage that they took leading up to the 2020 presidential election and in its aftermath. Some of those clips were obtained by CNN and released on Tuesday. According to a publicly released clip recorded a day before the election, Stone can be heard saying: “F—  the voting, let’s get right to the violence … see an antifa shoot to kill.”

With his flamboyant attire, colorful personal history and tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face on his back, Stone is a unique character of the American right.

This has, naturally, driven Stone into predictable paroxysms of anger. On the messaging app Telegram, where many right-wing groups have gathered, he called the circulating video a “deep fake” and attacked the media outlets that have reported on the likelihood of the footage being shown at the hearing.

With his flamboyant attire, colorful personal history and tattoo of Richard Nixon’s face on his back, Stone is a unique character of the American right. It can be tempting to see him as an odd sideshow to the broader investigation into the events of Jan. 6, but he is much more than that.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/roger-stone-jan-6-gops-steep-decline-rcna50089


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