A communications and social media advisor to Republican dirty trickster (and guy who can show Madison Cawthorn where the cocaine orgies are) Roger Stone told a conference call of Trump supporters who were planning to attend January 6th protests in Washington that they should “storm the Capitol” and that Donald Trump would impose martial law to prevent election winner Joe Biden from being certified as the winner of the 2020 election, the New York Times reports.
One week before the January 6th certification of the 2021 Electoral College vote, Stone associate Jason Sullivan joined the call to urge people to attack the Capitol and disrupt the operations of Congress, recordings of the call show.
After he encouraged the group to do everything they could to intimidate members of Congress and/or force Congress to halt proceedings, Sullivan said, “Biden will never be in that White House. That’s my promise to each and every one of you.”
Through his lawyer, Sullivan has claimed that his words were just encouragement to protest what he falsely claims were tainted results from the 2020 election, and that he did not mean the words literally. He claims he thought he was addressing mothers who were advocating for “health freedom.”
There is no evidence that there was any fraud in the vote count.
His words on the recording, however, undermine his claim. “If we make the people inside that building sweat and they understand that they may not be able to walk in the streets any longer if they do the wrong thing, then maybe they’ll do the right thing,” he said. “We have to put that pressure there.”
Sullivan stated that he knew Trump would impose a “limited form of martial law” as a result of the ensuing chaos, a move that was first suggested by Trump advisor and conspiracy theorist Mike Flynn. Chopped foam salesman Mike Lindell also had notes that referenced martial law when he attended a White House meeting in January, as captured by news photographers.
The tape was uncovered during an expanding Justice Department investigation into the January 6th domestic terrorist attack. Stone arrived in Washington, DC with a security contingent of Oath Keepers, a white nationalist group.