Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., declared in an interview that long-time Donald Trump confidante and adviser Roger Stone should “absolutely” be prosecuted after he was apparently caught on tape discussing the assassination of Swalwell and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.

Stone was allegedly captured on the tape talking of the murder of the Democratic lawmakers.

“Either Swalwell or Nadler has to die before the election. They need to get the message,” Stone allegedly told ex New York cop Sal Greco at a restaurant in Florida on the tape weeks before the 2020 election.

  • Kalkaline
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    671 year ago

    Who is running this government? All these calls for people to be locked up, but no action whatsoever. Do your fucking job, you are the law, arrest them and put them in front of a judge and jury.

    • Ghostalmedia
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      141 year ago

      The Penguin always escapes in Gotham.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      The way he goes on, I’m surprised he hasn’t mouthed off at the wrong person and ended up at the bottom of the Hudson in the trunk of a ‘77 Eldorado

  • BeautifulMind ♾️
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    331 year ago

    He’s already a felon, FFS. The only reason he’s out walking around is Trump pardoned him

  • @RegalPotoo
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    111 year ago

    Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that you can charge someone with conspiracy if they take an “affirmative step in the furtherance of a crime”; idly discussing if it would be a good idea to assassinate someone probably isn’t conspiracy (probably 1A protected, and doesn’t “further” a crime), but actually getting together with your friends and starting to plan out how you would do that probably is

    • @whatwhatwhatwhat
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      61 year ago

      One could argue that, because of a congressperson’s increased influence and power, the bar for what qualifies as “conspiracy” perhaps should be a little lower. I’m not saying that it actually is lower, but maybe it should be.

      Regardless, this seems like a serious ethics violation. Someone should not be allowed to serve in government if they’re going to talk about how their colleagues “need to die” before a certain date to send some sort of a “message”.

  • @xc2215x
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    91 year ago

    Eric is right. Roger should not be doing that.