CNN Obtains Clips From Roger Stone Documentary That May Be Shown At Next January 6th Committee Hearing
27.09.2022 - 17:23
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The January 6th Committee hearing on Wednesday may include clips of another documentary, this one on Roger Stone, the informal adviser to Donald Trump, in which he says before the 2020 election, “F— the voting. Let’s get right to the violence.”
CNN interviewed the Danish filmmakers behind the project and aired some of the clips on Monday.
The filmmakers had been subpoenaed by the committee earlier this year and came to an agreement to share some of the footage. They had been following Stone around for several years for the documentary project, which has yet to be released.
In one of the clips, from months before the election, Stone talks about rejecting the results, predicting that the election will “not be normal” and saying, “If the electors show up at the Electoral College, armed guards will throw them out.”
In another clip, shot the night before the election, Stone says, “F— the voting, let’s get right to the violence…. Shoot to kill. See an Antifa, shoot to kill.” The Washington Post reported that Stone then said, “I am of course only kidding. We renounce violence completely. We totally renounce violence. The left is the only ones who engage in violence.” But later that day, according to the Post, Stone again talked of clashes with activists on the left.
Christopher Guldbrandsen, director and producer of A Storm Foretold, told CNN’s Don Lemon that he and Frederik Marbell, the project’s director of photography, were questioned by committee lawyers for four days in Copenhagen. They ultimately agreed to provide the committee with eight minutes of material, including footage in the documentary and raw material.
Guldbrandsen told Lemon that it was “very emblematic” for leaders of the Trump movement to communicate in a way