Roger Stone - developmentally disabled?

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Before dawn, heavily-armed FBI agents rushed between Florida palm trees to confront their target.



The spectacle was ordered by Robert Mueller who has turned understatement into an art form.

Roger Stone was indicted on seven counts in Mueller’s probe into Russia interference in the 2016 US election.

The 66-year-old was one of the “ratfuckers” who engaged in dirty tricks on behalf of Richard Nixon when he was still a teenager. From there he mastered the dark art of ruthless campaigning, working for Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole and Donald Trump.

His attachment to Nixon is literally in the form of the disgraced former president’s grinning face tattooed on his back.

An arch conspiracy theorist, Stone embraced “fake news” before the term existed. His blurring of the lines between real and make-believe goes so far that it is hard to tell where the real Roger Stone ends and the fictitious Roger Stone begins.

In Mueller’s 23-page indictment is a text message sent by Stone to a person alleged to be his go-between with WikiLeaks. In it, Stone tries to persuade the intermediary to keep his mouth shut when facing investigators. “Stonewall it,” the text says. ‘Plead the fifth. Anything to save the plan … Richard Nixon.”

In further attempts allegedly to lean on the individual – dubbed “Person 2” in the indictment but presumed to be the radio host Randy Credico – Stone drew on a character from The Godfather: Part II. Do a “Frank Pentangeli” he exhorted.

The charges concentrate on Stone’s alleged lies about his actions concerning WikiLeaks and thousands of Democratic emails reportedly hacked by Russian agents during the 2016 election.

Collusion on steroids.

Round up the usual suspects.