Over the weekend, veteran political agent of the Republican Party Roger Stone posted photos of himself at a West Palm Beach gun show, copies of his presidential pardon.
“Great time at the Gun and Knife Show in South Florida,” he declared.
Stone pardoned in December 2020stand in front of a reduced sentence four years he had received the previous February for lying to Congress. He is reported by The New York Times sought a second pardon covering any possible crimes he may have committed while trying to overturn the outcome of the 2020 election.
But that attempt was unsuccessful and Stone remains in legal jeopardy as the January 6 Committee is reportedly ready to use tweets and footage to portray him as a key figure in the film. what some see as an uprising. A clip the committee is expected to play was shot by a Danish documentary before the 2020 results were even tabulated.
Stone can be heard saying: “Damn bad voting.” “Take an immediate approach to violence. Shoot to kill.”
So it was logical and unsettling that Stone signed up to be a salesman at a gun show the weekend before the hearing, surrounded by sellers of a variety of firearms as he embraced a favor. pardon he received from a president who was twice impeached.
In the photos he posted, Stone sits behind a table in a glamorous outfit, complete with suspenders, a striped tie and a flared collared shirt. The price list says pardons cost $20. He calls them “handwritten signatures,” but that hand is his, not Trump’s. He signs his name on each copy with a red Sharpie. Trump’s black Sharpie signature is a copy. He also sells them online with the description:
“On December 23, 2020, President Donald J. Trump granted the President an unconditional pardon, an act of both mercy and justice when the President determined that Stone had been framed by the hunt. hunt for the political witch who had discredited Robert Mueller and was burned in a corruption case. tested in Washington DC. You can now have a REGISTERED AND PERSONAL copy of this official piece of history. A presidential pardon is issued to Roger Stone signed by Roger Stone. “
Other items Stone sells at gun shows and online include two stones engraved with his name. One is the “Special Edition Roger Stone Paperweight,” also available online for $20, the other is simply the “Roger Stone Paperweight” for $10.
Beside Stone, a muscular, smiling man named Sal Greco, as confirmed by his black T-shirt reads “SAL GRECO IS NOT FALSE.” Two months ago Greco was a NYPD cop. Greco’s attorney said his client became the subject of an Internal Affairs Bureau (IAB) investigation last year, after the department received an anonymous letter alleging that he and another police officer “participated in the riot on Capitol Hill.”
“These officers want a civil war in America,” the letter read.
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A lawsuit Greco filed in Brooklyn Federal Court after reportedly being fired in August that he was officially targeted on January 22, 2021, when the Internal Affairs Command Center opened Japan. signed number C-2021-0027. The lawsuit admits that the IAB checked Greco’s social media accounts and found photos of members of the Oath-Keepers “a far-right American anti-government militia… who defended Roger.” Jason Stone, Jr., on January 6, 2021.”
Some pictures about Joshua James, is described in court papers as a co-founder of the Oath Keepers. The IAB spoke to James by phone, and he told them “Greco was in the District of Columbia from January 5-6, but did not engage in anything illegal or violent.”
The IAB also found images of various members of the Proud Boys, described in the lawsuit as “an alleged American far-right, neo-Nazi and male organization that promotes and engages in violence political power in the United States.”
Members of the Oath-Keepers and the Proud Boys have been charged in separate cases with ambitious conspiracies arising from an alleged attempt to prevent an accidental transfer of power. peaceful way. James became the first person to plead guilty in March, agreeing to cooperate against his accomplice.
Court papers say that when the IAB was investigating Greco’s involvement with members of the two groups, it “received further information, including photographs he was ‘associating’ with” Kristin M. Davis, formerly known as Manhattan Madam, is accused of running a high-end prostitution stop serving high-profile clients. Court papers note that Davis has been convicted of or advertised prostitution and the sale of oxycodone. IAB also found her photo on Greco’s social media.
Due to his involvement with Stone and two far-right militia groups and Davis, the IAB found that Greco was “wrongfully and intentionally associated with a person, allegedly involved, with potential involvement engaged in or has participated in a crime. activities.” And by spending time with militia members, he is “wrongfully and intentionally associated with any person or organization that advocates hatred, oppression, or prejudice based on race, religion, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation or disability.”
Greco was fired in August. He kept former NYPD Officer Eric Saunders as an attorney and filed a lawsuit, alleging that the firing violated his civil rights, “First Amendment — Freedom of Freedom. due to intimate association and the first amendment — Freedom of expression”.
“Plaintiff alleges that in addition to his personal ‘political’ relationships with members of the Oath-Keepers, the Proud Boys, others supported Trump’s America and the ‘Do’ political model. for America to be great again’, there is no ‘credible’ evidence he has. engage in any criminal or subversive activity with them or anyone else to overthrow the government of the United States,” the lawsuit says.
Stone’s social media accounts now include a photo he posted of himself smiling next to the ex-cop in a SAL GRECO T-shirt there’s nothing wrong at the gun show this past weekend.
A former member of Oath Keeper told The Miami Herald that at other times, this monthly gun show has become a recruiting ground for the organization. Stone has in the past acknowledged affiliations with the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys. In February, a federal judge found in a civil lawsuit involving Trump that “Stone’s connection to both the President and these groups in the days leading up to January 6 was an affair.” really begged.”
“Discovery can prove that the connection is an important one,” Judge Amit Mehta suggested in a written ruling.
Stone did not respond to phone messages due to The Daily Beast, so there’s no way of knowing how many pardons he’s sold. Many feel that he shouldn’t have anything to sell, but that he should now serve that four-year term.
There were at least copies of an amnesty for sale in a gun-filled hall of a smiling dashing man, who was once recorded as saying the right thing to do in an election was to go “straight forward.” hands with violence” and “shoot to kill.”
