Capitol cops investigating Roger Stone over 'assassination' rant: report

Mediaite reports that right-wing dirty trickster and Trump ally Roger Stone is now under investigation from Capitol Police after he was caught in a recording ranting about the need to assassinate Reps. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Eric Swalwell.

While the publication doesn't have any details about how far along the investigation is or what it encompasses, it does say that the FBI is assisting the Capitol Police in the matter.

Mediaite last week published a recording of Stone ranting to a security guard about killing Nadler and Swalwell ahead of the 2020 presidential election.

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"Either Swalwell or Nadler has to die before the election," Stone said in the recording. "They need to get the message. I'm just not putting up with this s--t anymore."

Mediaite's source for the recording told the publication that Stone's rants about assassinations were not a "one-off conversation" and were not made "in jest."

Stone first insisted that the recording Mediaite reported on didn't exist, and then insisted that it was a fake generated by artificial intelligence after it was published.

Stone in 2019 was convicted of lying to Congress, obstruction of Congress, witness tampering, and other crimes. Trump gave Stone a full pardon in the last days of his term in office in late 2020.