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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.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Almost like America is a plutocracy, and these people can get away with things you never will because both sides protect each other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s not both sides, it’s one side; the rich and powerful.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Terrific. Is that investigation going to end before or after the election? Because if it's after, it may not matter.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

His name is Merrick Garland and he's on the Republican take

[–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago

look, all he did was order the murder of some congressmen...
no need to blow it all out of proportion

[–] [email protected] 33 points 10 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months 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”.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Eric is right. Roger should not be doing that.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

Yes. Good luck with that.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Why? He's rich! Rich people don't get in trouble for trying to assassinate Lawmakers!