Roger Stone filmed discussing Trump's plan to contest 2024 election

Roger Stone, a longtime Republican activist who served as an adviser to Donald Trump, was secretly recorded at Mar-a-Lago revealing the former president’s strategy for contesting the 2024 election results if he loses again.

The so-called “dirty crook” of right-wing politics unknowingly leaked his plan to progressive journalists Lauren Windsor and Ally Sammarco, who posed as Trump fans and secretly filmed him during a “Catholic Prayer for Trump” event on March 19. The recordings were first reported by Rolling stone.

The remarkably candid conversation is just the latest released by Windsor and her left-wing lobby group, The Undercurrent, in recent weeks — and follows headline-grabbing recordings that captured Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito, weighing in on a number of hot-button culture war issues facing the court and the country.

Stone, who played a key role in Trump’s efforts to end data theft after the 2020 election, characterized his plan to challenge the 2024 election results as having three pillars: “lawyers, judges, technology.” He also said the Trump campaign has a strong “offensive base” this time around.

“In some states, it’s going to be easier to stop. In other places, it’s not going to be,” Stone told Sammarco. “At least this time, when they do it, you have a lawyer and a judge, with his home phone number at your disposal so you can stop him,” apparently referring to the certification of the 2024 results.

“We didn’t do any preparation last time, none,” he added.

Stone also tacitly approved the storming of the Capitol building after Sammarco told him she was participating in the insurrection.

“Maybe it’s not necessary,” Stone continued. “There are technical and legal steps we need to take to try to have more honest elections. »

Stone noted during the conversation that the Trump campaign is trying to change state election laws and plans to immediately file a number of lawsuits aimed at changing the results if the former president loses again, as Trump allies did in Michigan and several other states in 2020.

“We would have to sue in a half-dozen places,” Stone said of the Michigan lawsuit, adding that the RNC’s war chest would be used to fund the various lawsuits.

The Trump campaign launched 62 lawsuits challenging the election results across the country in 2020. However, most of them were quickly dismissed or dropped due to a lack of standing or evidence, according to Bloomberg Law.

Stone said in Windsor that the Trump campaign even has governors willing to challenge the results of next November’s election, although he said, candidly, that there weren’t many who were willing to their reputation on the line in the service of the former president.