Is this what passes for “news” in Newsweek?
Former President Donald Trump's supporters are determined to avoid mistakes in 2020 and are preparing to use every legal method available to prevent Democrats from fraudulently changing the results.
And there are covert recordings to prove it!
This was the sum total of one article Newsweek published on Wednesday, backing up a similar report on Tuesday rolling stone.
Both reports are based on surreptitiously recorded conversations by liberal documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor and an accomplice, with Trump backer Roger Stone, at an event at the Mar-a-Lago Club in South Florida.
Windsor was in the press last week with similar super duper recordings of the Supreme Court judge Samuel Alito this, contrary to leftist fantasies, only showed how Alito is perceptive. This was also first splashed in Rolling Stone.
Now, nobody expects “journalism” from a team like Rolling Stone.
The supposedly anti-establishment rock 'n' roll rebel magazine has been a Democratic rip-off, one house organ of the Democratic Party com predictable like The New York Times but with more colorful writing, albeit from the second year.
Newsweek, however, at least pretends to be a serious publication, and by that standard the article isn't just inappropriate, it's as silly as it gets.
As long as it's legal, should the GOP use every trick in the book to win in 2024?
First, here's the recording, where Stone promises that Trump supporters will be prepared for the inevitable legal battles that will follow the Nov. 5 vote. It's worth watching, not just for Stone's words, but to understand how hyperbolic the leftist backlash is:
NEW UNDERCOVER inside Mar-a-Lago: Trump ally Roger Stone's plan to win election depends on judges and courts pic.twitter.com/SNdcdCqcl7
— Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) June 18, 2024
In the recording, Windsor opens a conversation with Stone with a gratifying “You're in a position to know more than anyone else…”. then he asks his opinion on the elections.
“Too early to tell,” he replies, reasonably enough.
When Windsor tries to goad him with the phrase “Biden can't win again,” he replies:
“No, but it can be stolen again.”
Stone then goes on to talk about the actual material related to the election, especially the importance of getting Trump's evangelical vote and keeping Trump supporters from becoming complacent.
“Overconfidence is one of our giant problems right now among our people,” he said.
“But what are we going to do to stop it?”
Stone apparently took the question to refer to his earlier statement about stealing the election, which he might have been. Participants in a face-to-face conversation usually know what the other person is talking about better than you eavesdropping on a hidden recording device.
“We're working on it,” Stone said. “Lawyers, judges, technology”.
In other words, the GOP is working with the weapons of modern electoral warfare, just as the Democrats have become experts at (just ask). Marc Elias).
And for Newsweek, that qualifies as news.
Windsor's video includes an earlier interaction between Stone and Windsor's accomplice, Ally Sammarco, in which Sammarco, posing as a fan, tells Stone that he participated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol raid. Obviously trying to mislead Stone, he said the 2020 election was stolen by the Democrats.
His answer was clear as day for what it foreshadowed for Trump supporters:
“We're going to, between now and then, we're going to work very hard and very smart to make sure that doesn't happen.”
Again, the nuts and bolts campaign works and the law of nuts and bolts campaigns. This is not the stuff of covert recording legend.
“So far, given the incredible power they have and will use mercilessly, we're beating them starting today,” Stone said.
He cited the legal problems facing the Democratic prosecution of Trump Fulton County, Georgia, and special counsel Jack Smith's cases against Trump a Florida i d.c as signs that the offensive against Trump is stalling.
And he declared that Republicans would be ready this election to fight in a way they weren't in 2020.
If this is news, it's the kind that should encourage Trump supporters, tired of watching Democrats abuse the American legal system in their quest for power.
This isn't the kind of “news” Newsweek editors saw, but as the headline put it: “Roger Stone's Secret Recording Sparks Fury.”
The “fury” was, of course, made up entirely of Democrats who apparently see something sinister in the idea that Republicans can defend themselves in a legal fight.
If the purpose of the Windsor recordings was to expose something supposedly secret, it failed. None of Stone's words were shocking, and it was only comforting to Trump supporters to know that his side won't roll over and die when the going gets tough in the fall.
The fact that liberal activists try so hard, look so empty, and pretend that the attempts are timid. Potemkin riot in its importance, it basically reeks of liberal panic.
If the goal was to humiliate Stone personally, that was almost certainly at least a secondary goal, given the fear and hatred of the left for the man — It was worse than a failure. And Newsweek's publication of such a shameful, ham-handed controversy only humiliated the publication.
Stone probably summed up the situation best in his own social media post, calling the story “NOTHINGBURGER.”
My video illegally obtained by @lawindsor in which I lay out the perfectly legal steps Republicans must take to ensure that free, fair and honest elections are NOTHING. https://t.co/IMs4LRBZTi
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) June 19, 2024
“@lawindsor's illegally obtained video of me laying out the perfectly legal steps Republicans must take to ensure a free, fair and honest election is a NOTHINGBURGER,” he wrote.
It's a nothing hamburger.
But it's the kind of news that passes for “news” in Newsweek.
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