Get shed of Roger Stone

On Friday around noon, Roger Stone preened in vain for a crowd in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

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Stone tried to hide his panic with bravado [...] . But his shtick seemed moth-eaten and creepy. He struck the moribund Nixon two-V-hands victory/corruption pose. He smiled nervously. He broke out an old chestnut: “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about!”

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“Lock him up!” chanted the crowd.

America, it seems, has had more than enough of Roger Stone.

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The bumptious Trumpworld carny wore out his welcome in, oh, probably 1992 (some say ’71). He is not as charming as he thinks he is.

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[I]f Stone was indeed running info between WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign, for which he was an informal advisor, he is a keystone in what Mueller’s office has called “the conspiracy to defraud the United States.”

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He wasn't charged with that at this time, and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti explained in a Twitter thread that Mueller would have chosen the charges that he has the most water-tight proof to back up.

Stone’s indictment on seven counts, including false statements and witness tampering, comes not a moment too soon.

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Fortunately for Giuliani and Trump, Stone, using mob-speak, has said he will “never roll on Donald Trump.” Stone told the Fort Lauderdale assembly, “I am one of [Trump’s] oldest friends.” (More cries of “Lock him up!”)

Former federal prosecutor Peter Zeidenberg tweeted that Mueller wouldn't want to use Stone for that purpose anyway because Stone is "poisonous" and "radioactive", and says "Stone would hurt any case he’s associated with. If Mueller can’t make a case without Stone, he won’t bring it. And if it’s provable w/o Stone, then he won’t use Stone. Stone would hurt far more than he’d help." I think that's absolutely right.

Trump, who on Friday caved to the demand of Democrats that he reopen the government, cannot have been super-pleased to have Stone remind America of the two men’s longtime intimacy.

Evidence of Stone’s treachery should surprise exactly no one. For decades, Stone has styled himself as a natty, pervy, dirty-tricksy operative for the Republican Party and foreign torturers.

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How he passes off his deviant ideology and contempt for American values as somehow “conservative” is anyone’s guess. But the campaigns he worked on — Richard Nixon’s, Ronald Reagan’s, Bob Dole’s, George W. Bush’s and dozens of others — seemed to appreciate his extensive dirty work.

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With his former partner, Trump campaign manager and convicted felon Paul Manafort, Stone lobbied in Washington, D.C. for warlords and human-rights abusers abroad.

Over the years, Stone and his firm have worked on behalf of such sweethearts as murderous, looting dictator Mobuto Sese Seko in Congo; kleptocrat and convicted killer Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines; and Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., which owns Fox News. Stateside, Stone’s firm repped the disgraced Tobacco Institute and, since the 1980s, Donald Trump.

Has anyone mentioned his mob-flavored suits?

If you need any more evidence of Stone's low sadistic character, watch the Netflix documentary, "Get Me Roger Stone." Have your puke bucket nearby.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.