This is my third post reviewing, one by one, the transcripts released by the January 6th committee. This time it’s Roger Stone.
This will be short and sweet. I think at some point that I’ll get to the transcripts in which witnesses give substantive answers. Stone took the fifth to each and every question he was asked, except those in which he admitted that he was the Roger Stone to whom the subpoena was directed.
All of the observations I made about John Eastman’s use of the fifth apply here, so I won’t repeat them. I’ll just end with this laughable quote from Stone’s lawyer, Grant Smith:
May I just say something?
Mr. Stone is here to answer each and every question that you may have. You may not appreciate the answer, but he’s here to give a response to each and every question. So, if you have more questions, I don’t want it to be deemed that he’s giving a blanket answer to a series of questions. He’s here to answer each and every question.
This, after both he and Stone had made it clear that Stone would answer each question by taking the Fifth, after Stone and he had made clear that they would not state the grounds for which they were taking the fifth, followed by Stone taking the fifth to each and every question he was subsequently asked. So in other words, he’s saying: Don’t just assume we’ll take the fifth to each question, make us do it.
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