Visit The Boston Globe Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Comment on this Scroll to top of page Peter Bailey-Wells Globe Staff January 27, 2019 WATCH: “Saturday Night Live” cold open Steve Martin, a frequent “Saturday Night Live” guest and host, returned this weekend to help the show make fun of the indictment of Roger Stone, a campaign adviser to President Trump.Martin appeared at the end of the show’s cold open, which was a parody of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Fox News. In the segment, host Carlson, played by Alex Moffat, interviewed a trio of “guests”: Cecily Strong as Jeanine Pirro, Kate McKinnon as Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Martin as Stone. Moffat’s Carlson began by quizzing Strong’s Pirro and McKinnon’s Ross about the recently ended government shutdown, which began when Trump refused to sign a spending bill in December that did not include money for a wall at the southern … [Read more...] about Steve Martin returns to ‘SNL’ to play Roger Stone
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Pirro: Mueller’s ‘Gestapo’ Tactics Arresting Roger Stone Intended to ‘Poison the Jury Pool’
Saturday during her “Opening Statement” segment on Fox News Channel’s “Justice,” host Jeanine Pirro hammered Department of Justice special counsel Robert Mueller for his use of heavy-handed tactics in arresting political operative Roger Stone in a pre-dawn raid for what she deemed to be “process crimes.”Pirro questioned the necessity for such a law enforcement presence and said it could have backfired given Stone’s wife is deaf. “The Mueller team gets an indictment against Roger Stone which is represented by an attorney. But instead of notifying the attorney and requesting he bring his client in for arraignment — standard protocol in cases like Stone’s — the Mueller team decides on Gestapo tactics,” Pirro said. “While still dark and well before dawn, 29 armed FBI agents and a SWAT team donning body armor and fatigues, and tactical vests arrive at Stone’s home. Seventeen vehicles including … [Read more...] about Pirro: Mueller’s ‘Gestapo’ Tactics Arresting Roger Stone Intended to ‘Poison the Jury Pool’
Roger Stone slams Mueller’s tactics, history in Boston
By Joe Dwinell | [email protected] | Boston HeraldPUBLISHED: January 26, 2019 at 9:00 pm | UPDATED: January 26, 2019 at 9:30 pm A fired-up Roger Stone is hitting back at Robert Mueller, telling the Herald the special counsel is prosecuting by “intimidation,” hoping someone ultimately reads his “script,” and is accusing the former FBI chief of inaction with an infamous Hub mob murder. Stone said being arrested in a predawn raid by 29 FBI agents in “SWAT gear” and night-vision goggles swarming all over his house in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday was “an abuse of power and a fascist tactic.” He spoke by telephone from his home Saturday, a day after his wife, two dogs and three cats experienced the alarming wake-up call. “They treated me like El Chapo,” Stone said of Mexican drug lord Joaquin Guzman, now on trial in Brooklyn. “Perhaps they want to intimidate people into reading a script.” Stone, 66, is charged with … [Read more...] about Roger Stone slams Mueller’s tactics, history in Boston
Roger Stone says campaign officials listed in indictments “have an ax to grind against me”
A longtime associate of President Trump is maintaining his innocence. Roger Stone insists he is not guilty of charges outlined in a federal indictment and he's blasting an early-morning FBI raid on his Florida home. Stone spoke to CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues. Stone walked out of his Fort Lauderdale home on Saturday and immediately dismissed speculation that he shared information about the WikiLeaks disclosures with then-candidate Trump in 2016. "I wasn't," Stone said. "Those two assertions regarding Campaign Official 1 and Campaign Official 2 are incorrect. They are false. Now that doesn't mean that the special counsel can't induce somebody to say that, but they would be people who are easily impeachable, because they were either seeking a reduction in their sentence or because they have an ax to grind against me. This will all come out at trial." After emerging from the courthouse on Friday, the flamboyant political operative did … [Read more...] about Roger Stone says campaign officials listed in indictments “have an ax to grind against me”
Roger Stone and ‘Ratf—ing’: A Short History
Roger Stone, now under indictment on several counts related to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, has always reveled in being a political mischief-maker. It’s a reputation he has burnished since he was 19 years old, when he was involved in the “dirty tricks” operation of Richard Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign. More recently, he bragged publicly about purported contacts with WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign, the subject of Friday’s indictment. When asked in the 2017 documentary Get Me Roger Stone why he has embraced the role of “dirty trickster,” he shrugged and said, “Well, I’m stuck with it now. It’s going to be in the first paragraph of my New York Times obit, so I might as well go with the flow.”Story Continued Below “Dirty trickster” is one thing. But Stone, who says he will plead not guilty to the charges against him, … [Read more...] about Roger Stone and ‘Ratf—ing’: A Short History