Trump Pal Roger Stone Promises Anti-Trump RNC Delegates Room Service, With Fists

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Longtime GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone (who really does have a tattoo of Nixon on his back) may have quit or been firedfrom the Donald Trump campaign last summer, but he's still serving the Great Man on an informal basis. Tuesday, in what looks like an attempt to prove he's every bit a major-league ratfucker as G. Gordon Liddy or Karl Rove, Stone took to the "Freedomain Radio" podcast to give host Stefan Molyneux a preview of the Night of the Short-Fingered Vulgarians awaiting this summer's Republican convention in Cleveland if delegates fail to give Donald Trump the nomination he has already earned by being The Best:

We like the part where Stone, a veteran of many, many campaigns, pretends to be surprised that the allocation of delegates is determined by the party, not by state or federal law. He knows better, but that's no reason not to be outraged if you don't get your way. He puts Trump supporters on notice that the nefarious leadership of the GOP will resort to all sorts of dirty tricks, and nobody knows dirty tricks like Roger Stone. Trust no one, he warns, not even delegates who say they're for Trump:

Either Trump will have 1,237 votes in which case the party will try to throw out some of those delegates in a naked attempt to try to steal this from Donald Trump, or he will be just short of 1,237, in which case many of his own delegates, or, I should say people in his delegate seats will abandon him on the second ballot.

Which is how a contested convention works, but let's say those delegates actually do change their minds. What then? Stone explains exactly what convention delegates can expect if party leadership stabs Trump in the back:

So the fix is in. If Trump does not run the table on the rest of the primaries and the caucuses, we're looking at a very, very narrow path in which the kingmakers go all out to cheat, to steal, and to snatch this nomination from the candidate who is overwhelmingly selected by the voters, which is why I have urged Trump supporters: come to Cleveland. March on Cleveland. Join us in the Forest City.

We're going to have protests, demonstrations. We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal. If you're from Pennsylvania, we'll tell you who the culprits are. We urge you to visit their hotel and find them. You have a right to discuss this if you voted in the Pennsylvania primary, for example, and your votes are being disallowed.

[wonkbar]a href="https: //wonkette.substack.com/p/another-dude-gets-punched-at-trump-rally-because-thats-what-happens-now"[/wonkbar]Mind you, when Trump goons find out where a turncoat delegate is staying, Stone says they should "discuss" the matter with the delegate. It would take an enormous, utterly impossible leap of the imagination to suggest that some Trumptroopers might go beyond civil dialogue and start beating on delegates, no no no no, that's mere paranoid talk. It's not like Trump supporters have a proclivity for violence, which is only a myth perpetuated by the liberal media. Just don't provoke them by doing something stupid like letting anyone but Trump have the nomination, OK?

Should Stone's delegateintimidationoutreach effort prove insufficient to guarantee Trump triumphs at a contested convention, there are always other options. Like maybe setting the Cuyahoga River on fire.

[ Media Matters / TPM / Politico ]