The House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol faces both risk and reward by turning to two Trump allies with a history of lying as it seeks to map out the planning and financing of the Jan. 6 rallies.
The select panel on Monday subpoenaed known conspiracy theorist and radio host Alex Jones and Roger Stone.
But the committee sees both as having key information about the planning and financing of the Jan. 6 "Stop the Steal" rally near the White House, where Trump encouraged his supporters to “fight like hell.”
Stone, who was pardoned by Trump after being convicted of lying to lawmakers about Russian election interference, bashed the FBI.
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“We have a group of politicized thugs at the top of the FBI who are using the FBI … as Joe Biden‘s personal Gestapo,” he told John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM radio show in an interview that aired Sunday.
He went on to question the reasoning behind the FBI’s decision to raid the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of Project Veritas, as part of an investigation into the theft of Biden’s daughter Ashley’s diary ahead of the 2020 election.
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Project Veritas refrained from publishing the contents of the diary, but the National File blog did release handwritten pages from it about a week before the election.
“If a journalist has [Biden’s] daughter’s diary, particularly if the journalist hasn’t even published it, or commented on it, why would you search their home? Why would you seize their computers? It’s very chilling,” Stone expressed.
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He accused the Jan. 6 committee of using subpoenas like “press releases.”
“I immediately began thinking how many of my ‘Roger Stone Still Did Nothing Wrong’ T-shirts can I sell to raise the money for my legal defense. … This is epically expensive. I’ve gotten 11 harassment civil suits against me — all baseless, unsubstantiated, but tremendously sensationalized — dismissed,” Stone said.
“I’ve still got six to go, not to mention [Congress’] new level of harassment. … They put enormous financial pressure on you, and they seek to write … a subpoena as if it’s a press release,” Stone said. “Isn’t it interesting that they released the subpoena on me to the press before my lawyers even received it and had a chance to read it? What’s that about?” he asked.
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