Trump covered his tracks

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Wed, 23/08/2023 - 23:00
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Wed, 23/08/2023 - 23:00
Thickly but not well enough Amanda Marcotte comments on the Roger Stone video that “The Beat with Ari Melber” on MSNBC has been reporting on this week. The show ran excerpts of video of Stone shot by Danish filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen for “A Storm Foretold.”  The clips provide further proof that the Trump plot to overturn the election did not arise from a “sincere” belief that the election was “stolen.” Marcotte writes: The video captures Stone’s aggravation at finding he’s been barred from speaking at Trump’s January 6th “Stop the Steal” rally at the Ellipse in Washington D.C.  “I don’t understand how they want us to lead the march but can’t even tell us where to go,” Stone whines, adding that he’s not speaking directly to Rudy Giuliani or the rest of Trump’s inner circle. He complains that it’s “very clear that I was never on their list.” “It’s just childish and it’s amateurish. That’s why they lost. They don’t know what they’re doing,” he snipes.  Here is the clip: Marcotte, however, focuses on Stone’s comments that contradict the narrative that the Jan. 6 march to the Capitol was spontaneous: On MSNBC and elsewhere, the coverage has been focused on Stone’s admission that Trump lost, adding to the already large pile of evidence that Trump and his co-conspirators never believed the Big Lie. But what struck me in that clip is the part right before it, where Stone indicates he’s expected to “lead the march” but that the team directly…