Roger Stone Will Lead “Stop The Steal” Protests At The Republican National Convention

Roger Stone Is A Longtime Adviser To Trump Who Is Involved With Groups Trying To Help Trump Win The White House. Stone is a longtime adviser and friend to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. He speaks frequently with Trump, worked as a paid adviser to his campaign last year, and helped place operative Paul Manafort in a top campaign position. Stone heads the super PAC Committee to Restore America's Greatness and the related 527 group Stop The Steal. Stone has a history of violent, sexist, and racist rhetoric against politicians and media figures, including calling for the killings of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. Stone said he plans to release the hotel room numbers of delegates who are trying to “steal” the nomination from Trump. [Media Matters, 4/14/16, 4/20/16; 5/2/16]

Stone’s Stop The Steal Website: “Four Days Of Non-Violent Demonstrations, Protests And Lobbying Delegates Face To Face.” Stone’s StopTheSteal.org website touts plans to protest from July 18 to 21 in Cleveland:

That’s why we have called for a STOP THE STEAL MARCH ON CLEVELAND- July 18 to 21- four days of non-violent demonstrations, protests and lobbying delegates face to face. We must send the GOP a clear signal thru our sheer numbers that we will not vote Republican nor work for the ticket if Donald Trump is robbed. The insiders plan to totally ignore the will of the voters and use legal trickery and bribery to try to steal. Incredibly bribing delegates for their votes is NOT illegal.

We plan the biggest Rally in Cleveland history. We must own the streets. In numbers there is strength. [Stop The Steal, accessed 5/2/16]

Roger Stone Will Speak At The Rally Along With Other Trump Supporters. [Breitbart.com, 4/2/16; The Associated Press, 5/2/16]

Stone's Rally Plan Has Received National Press Attention. [Politico, 4/13/16; Cleveland.com, 4/4/16; Reuters, 4/29/16, The Associated Press, 5/2/16]

Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Is The Rally’s Chief Promoter And A Scheduled Speaker

Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones Has Heavily Touted Stone’s Rally And Says He Will Speak At The Event. Alex Jones is a conspiracy theorist who hosts The Alex Jones Show and is the proprietor of Infowars.com. Jones said he is going to be a speaker at the rally and repeatedly urged his audience to give Stone “their time, their energy, and their money,” calling the event “the most important action in decades, if not in a hundred years.”

Stone Began Promoting His Stop The Steal Organization On Jones’ Show In February. During the February 26 broadcast of The Alex Jones Show, Stone announced that he was pulling together some of his associates and had “set up a fund to pay for their travel, to pay for their hotel rooms, to bring them to Cleveland to avoid the steal." Stone then promoted his Stop The Steal website and asked for contributions. [Media Matters, 2/26/16]

Jones: Stone Is Going To “Lead [The Rally] With Myself And Many Others.” During his program in March, Jones told Stone that “you are going to plan to lead, with myself and many others, demonstrations, events, movements.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 3/30/16] 

Jones: Rally Is “The Most Important Action In Decades, If Not In A Hundred Years.” Jones then promoted Stone’s Stop the Steal website and implored his audience to “get involved with Roger Stone and everybody else.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 3/30/16]

Stone Told BuzzFeed He Issued His “Call To Action” On Jones' Show. BuzzFeed reported on April 1 of Stone’s rally:

Stone said the campaign was not involved in organizing this, instead saying the protests will be “organized by Trump nation,” but said that “we did inform them.” He said he had “issued the call to action” on Infowars, the Alex Jones-run conspiracy show, on March 30, that they “will stage protests at hotels of state delegates of states supporting the BIG STEAL,” and that he and Jones would be speaking (Pat Buchanan and Ron Paul are both invited). [BuzzFeed, 4/1/16]

Jones To His Audience: “You Must Be In Cleveland.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 4/6/16] 

Stone: Jones Has “Graciously Agreed To Speak” At The Rally. [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 4/6/16]

Stone On Jones’ Website: “Join Me And Alex Jones For The Stop The Steal Rally In Cleveland July 18-21.” [Infowars.com, 4/7/16]

Stone: Jones Will Speak At The Rally And “Will Be Covering The Convention. I Think It’s Going To Be Great.” During an interview with American Veritas, Stone said that Jones will speak at and cover the rally. [YouTube.com, 4/8/16]

Jones: “We Are Going To Go To Cleveland And Defend The Right To Vote And The Right To The Rest Of The First Amendment.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 4/8/16]

Jones: Stone Rally Is “The Place People Need To Put Their Time, Their Energy, And Their Money.” Jones said Stone’s rally is “the place people need to put their time, their energy, and their money. Commit now, you’re going to Cleveland, folks. It’s a march on tyranny. It’s a march against the people that want to steal this country.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 4/12/16]

Jones: “Everybody’s Got To Book To Be There Now. This Is History. I’m Going To Be There And Be Speaking. … You Need To Be Part Of This.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 4/27/16]

Trump Has Been Courting Jones And His Audience

Trump Appeared On Jones’ Show In December And Praised His “Amazing” Reputation. Trump appeared on Jones’ December 2 program and told Jones: “Your reputation's amazing. I will not let you down." [Media Matters, 12/2/15]

Trump Campaign Joined Jones' Website To Get Out The Vote Ahead Of Primary Contests. In February, Trump senior policy adviser Stephen Miller praised Jones and Infowars for having “been on top of ... the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and on the immigration issue.” Miller then repeatedly pitched Trump to Jones' audience, telling them that “if you want to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, if you want to close the border, if you want to protect American jobs and wages, then you have to support Donald J. Trump.” [Media Matters, 2/10/16]

Trump Called Jones A “Nice Guy” During January Campaign Event. [YouTube.com, 1/19/16]

Jones Claimed He Has Private Conservations With Trump And The Republican Front-Runner “Listens To What We Say.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 3/22/16]

Jones Believes The Government Was Behind The 9/11 Attacks

Jones’ Biography Described Him As “One Of The Very First Founding Fathers Of The 9-11 Truth Movement.” Jones’ biography stated that he “predicted the attacks on September 11th, 2001 and is considered one of the very first founding fathers of the 9-11 Truth Movement.” [Infowars.com, 2/2/11, via Internet Archive]

Jones On 9/11 Attacks: “Those Were Controlled Demolitions. You Just Watched The Government Blow Up The World Trade Center.” Rolling Stone interviewed Jones for a 2011 profile and wrote of his broadcasts following the September 11, 2001, attacks:

Seven weeks later, Jones became the only radio host in America to begin his September 11th broadcast with a tirade against the U.S. government. “I went on the air and said, 'Those were controlled demolitions. You just watched the government blow up the World Trade Center.' I lost 70 percent of my affiliates that day. Station managers asked me, 'Do you want to be on this crusade going nowhere, or do you want to be a star?' I'm proud I never compromised.” [Rolling Stone, 3/2/11]

Jones Claims There Are Over 300 Pieces Of “Iron-Tight Proof That The Official Story’s A Fable And An Inside Job Is The Only Explanation.” [YouTube.com, 9/12/12]

Jones: 9/11 Attack Was “The False Flag Of False Flags.” While speaking about the 9/11 Truth movement, Jones said of the September 11 attacks: “It’s the false flag of false flags. Until they set a nuke off and blame it on the patriot movement or Al Qaeda.” Infowars describes a false flag attack as “when government engages in covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations seem as if they are being carried out by other entities.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 8/21/14; Infowars.com, 8/14/12]

Jones Pushes Extreme Conspiracy Theories About National Tragedies

Jones Claimed Oklahoma City Bombing Was A “False Flag,” “Staged Event.” Jones said the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing was a “false flag” and “we’ve never had one so open and shut.” He added that convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh “was a patsy, that was a staged event.” [YouTube.com, 4/19/15]

Jones Claimed Aurora And Sandy Hook Shootings Were “Staged.” Jones has insisted that the mass shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and Newtown, Connecticut, were “staged”: “You saw them stage Fast and Furious. Folks, they staged Aurora, they staged Sandy Hook. The evidence is just overwhelming. And that's why I'm so desperate and freaked out. This is not fun, you know, getting up here telling you this. Somebody's got to tell you the truth.” [Media Matters, 4/15/13]

Jones On Boston Marathon Bombing: “False Flag, Provocateured, Staged Event By A Government.” Jones has labeled the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing a “false flag, provocateured, staged event by a government.” He’s further claimed that bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev “was totally set up” and “we know it was fake.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 4/26/13; 4/8/15]

Jones Said “Globalists” Caused Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster To Serve As A “Distraction” From Iraq. Jones wrote that “globalists” were involved in the deadly 2003 disaster, stating on his website:

Three weeks ago, on my syndicated radio show, I said that there was a very good chance that the globalists would do something horrible concerning the latest Colombia mission. Understand, the psychological warfare technicians do not even need to publicly blame Iraq for the Columbia disaster. It will serve as a distraction in the global press during the final weeks of war preparation in the gulf. It Will Serve The Dual Purpose Of Unifying The Country Behind President Bush as he grandstands (See N YT --President Bush Had Tears In His Eyes On Saturday When He Spoke The Words That Became The Headline “The Columbia Is Lost” and Reuters -- Again, Bush Thrust Into Role As National Mourner), talking about how horrible the death of the astronauts has been. [Infowars.com, 2/1/03]

Jones Believes The 2011 Shooting Of Gabrielle Giffords “Was A Staged Mind-Control Operation” By The Government. Rolling Stone reported of the 2011 shooting of then-Rep. Gabrielle Giffords:

Jones being Jones, he's not sure the Tucson rampage is as simple as a psychotic snap. Turning over the possibilities sends the tendrils of his anti-government imagination into wild motion. “The whole thing stinks to high heaven,” he says. “This kid Loughner disappeared for days at a time before the shooting? My gut tells me this was a staged mind-control operation. The government employs geometric psychological-warfare experts that know exactly how to indirectly manipulate unstable people through the media. They implanted the idea in his head by repeatedly asking, 'Is Giffords in danger?'” [Rolling Stone, 3/2/11]

Jones Called San Bernardino Shooting A “False Flag.” Jones claimed that the 2015 shooting was in a “Democrat-controlled state and they want to demonize the Second Amendment.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 12/3/15]

Jones Called Brussels Attacks “The Ultimate False Flag.” Jones claimed that the March 2016 bombings in Brussels, Belgium, was “the ultimate false flag,” explaining: “It's a real Islamic attack. But when you bring 'em in and you know they're going to attack and you know a bunch of 'em are terror cells, then you are aiding and abetting, it is a false flag.” [Genesis Communications Network, The Alex Jones Show, 3/22/16, via Media Matters]

Jones’ Bizarre Beliefs About One-World Government And Global Extermination

Jones Film Documents How World Government Plans “To Exterminate 80% Of The World's Population.” An Infowars.com description for Jones’ film ENDGAME states: 

For the New World Order, a world government is just the beginning. Once in place they can engage their plan to exterminate 80% of the world's population, while enabling the elites to live forever with the aid of advanced technology. For the first time, crusading filmmaker Alex Jones reveals their secret plan for humanity's extermination: Operation ENDGAME. [Infowars.com, accessed 5/2/16]

Jones Film Claims A “World Government Has Arrived And That The Dollar Will Be Replaced By A New Global Currency.” An Infowars.com description for Jones’ film Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency Of Barack H. Obama documents world government:

Fall Of The Republic: The Presidency Of Barack H. Obama documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the U.S. economy by design. Leaders are now declaring that world government has arrived and that the dollar will be replaced by a new global currency. President Obama has brazenly violated Article 1 Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution by seating himself at the head of United Nations' Security Council, thus becoming the first U.S. president to chair the world body. 

A scientific dictatorship is in its final stages of completion, and laws protecting basic human rights are being abolished worldwide; an iron curtain of high-tech tyranny is now descending over the planet. A worldwide regime controlled by an unelected corporate elite is implementing a planetary carbon tax system that will dominate all human activity and establish a system of neo-feudal slavery. The image makers have carefully packaged Obama as the world's savior; he is the Trojan Horse manufactured to pacify the people just long enough for the globalists to complete their master plan. [Infowars.com, accessed 5/2/16]

Jones Film Purports To Prove “Existence Of A Secret Network Of FEMA Camps.” An Infowars.com description for Jones’ film Police State 4: The Rise Of FEMA states that it proves the existence of “secret” FEMA camps:

Police State 4: The Rise Of FEMA chronicles the sickening depths to which our republic has fallen. Veteran documentary filmmaker Alex Jones conclusively proves the existence of a secret network of FEMA camps, now being expanded nationwide. The military-industrial complex is transforming our once free nation into a giant prison camp. A cashless society control grid, constructed in the name of fighting terrorism, was actually built to enslave the American people. Body scanners, sound cannons, citizen spies, staged terror and cameras on every street corner — it's only the beginning of the New World Order's hellish plan. [Infowars.com, accessed 5/2/16]