In the upcoming hearing of the U.S. House committee looking into the riots of January 6, 2021, it is anticipated that documentary filmmakers’ footage of longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone, in which the political advisor calls for “violence” in footage shot one day prior to the riots, will be shown.
Several media sites, including CNN and The Washington Post, have obtained clips from the documentary, A Storm Foretold, which is scheduled to be released later this year.
The Post claims that audio of Stone allegedly saying, “F—- the vote, let’s get directly to the violence,” is on record. Kill with a shot. Attend an Antifa? Kill with a shot. Fail them. I’m done with that nonsense.
Then, according to the Post, Stone clarifies his statements by joking that he is “just kidding,” and he adds, “We repudiate violence fully.” “We abhor violence in all forms. Violence is exclusively committed by members of the left.”
Stone, 69, was found guilty in 2020 of seven crimes, including lying on oath to Congress, obstructing a congressional inquiry, and interfering with a witness during the Trump-Russia probe.
However, the 40-month sentence was commuted by then-President Trump just days before he was set to report to federal jail to start serving it.
Christoffer Guldbrandsen, the documentary’s director, said in an interview with The Washington Post that he spent “nearly three years” working with Stone and other Trump supporters and “realized what we saw after the 2020 election and Jan. 6 was not the culmination but the beginning of an antidemocratic movement in the United States.”
Further information from the source indicates that the committee has focused on six hours of video taken throughout the course of the three-year filming process.
The subsequent hearing on January 6 is slated to get underway on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET. It will be the first hearing open to the public since July.
New information has been presented at each public session thus far regarding the circumstances surrounding the attacks and how Trump and his allies responded.
But when the proceedings were suspended for the summer, the former president experienced a lot of changes. Since the most recent House Committee hearing, the FBI has searched Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate for sensitive data (which they discovered), and New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against the president and his adult children for a variety of real estate and business transactions.
These inquiries are only a few of the numerous legal troubles Trump has encountered since leaving the White House in January 2021.
