It’s worth noting that in November 2019, Stone was convicted on seven felony counts of witness tampering, lying to and obstructing a Congressional committee, in relation to his role as a go-between with Wikileaks for the Trump campaign, around the time of a high-profile dump of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee.

10, 2020, Stone appeared as a guest on Jones’ show, where the two men, without providing supportive evidence, presented a somewhat convoluted conspiracy theory of a left-wing attempt to “steal” the Nov. Using those new powers, Stone suggested, he should order the arrest of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, ‘the Clintons,’ and ‘anybody else who can be proven to be involved in illegal activity.'” Stone encouraged Trump to consider declaring ‘martial law’ should he lose reelection, or invoke the Insurrection Act. “In an interview with Alex Jones’ far-right conspiracy-theory site, Infowars, Stone echoed groundless claims pushed by Trump that the Democratic Party would rig the election. The following day, HuffPost published an article with the headline “Roger Stone Calls For Trump To ‘Declare Martial Law’ To Seize Power If He Loses,” and on Sept. “Roger Stone is making baseless accusations of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election and is urging Donald Trump to consider several draconian measures to stay in power, including having federal authorities seize ballots in Nevada, having FBI agents and Republican state officials ‘physically’ block voting under the pretext of preventing voter fraud, using martial law or the Insurrection Act to carry out widespread arrests, and nationalizing state police forces.” 11, 2020, left-leaning website Media Matters reported that: President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential election campaign, had said the president should declare martial law in the event that he loses the 2020 election. In September 2020, readers asked Snopes to examine the accuracy of news articles that claimed that Roger Stone, a Republican strategist and convicted felon who worked for U.S.

Election may be over, but the misinformation keeps on ticking.

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