Roger Stone Tweets Obscenities At CNN Anchors: Advises "Punishment"

Update, Sunday morning Roger Stone reportedly says in an email to Politico that he intends to take legal action against Twitter for banning him from the site. The website reports that it received an email from Stone saying he’s consulted with “prominent telecommunication attorneys,” though he did not indicate any basis for possible litigation. Stone tells Politico that his Twitter suspension is “part and parcel of the systematic effort by the tech left to censor and silence conservative voices,” and that he had been “inundated on Twitter with death threats, threats to kill my wife, my family, my children and even my dogs yet Twitter seems unconcerned with these bloggers.”

Some Twitter users on Sunday were claiming that Stone continues to tweet using at least one other account. Deadline was not immediately able to confirm Stone’s involvement with that account or tweets.

Previous, Saturday p.m. Roger Stone’s Twitter account has been suspended, almost certainly permanently. Twitter does not comment on individual accounts but Stone’s offending tweets apparently violated the company’s policy against harassment and intimidation. In any case, they’re gone from the site – but you can read them below. Deadline wrote about the offensive rant this morning.

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CNN‘s Ana Navarro, who was among the targets of Stone’s menacing obscenity-filled tweets, responded to his banishment with appropriate concision: “Boo-hoo. Can you hear me playing my little violin for him?”

Boo-hoo.

Can you hear me playing my little violin for him?🎻 https://t.co/WOfRIBVplC

— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) October 28, 2017

Previous, Saturday a.m. Former Trump adviser Roger Stone reacted to CNN’s then-exclusive news of imminent charges in the Mueller investigation with a string of crude, obscenity-filled, personal and vaguely threatening tweets against the network’s anchors and contributors Don Lemon, Jake Tapper, Ana Navarro, Bill Kristol, Carl Bernstein and Charles Blow.

Two of the tweets against Lemon included homophobic dog-whistles, including one making an obscene reference to oral sex and another calling the anchor an “arrogant partyboi.” (See the tweets below.) The one targeting Kristol mocked his appearance.

If the repugnant missives were meant to raise ire or get attention from the journalists – or distract from the big Mueller news – they mostly failed. Only one of the subjects responded directly to Stone, with the New York Times columnist Charles Blow tweeting a fly-shooing one-word rejoinder: “Stoned.”

Stoned… https://t.co/1JEBtvTDrp

— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) October 28, 2017

But CNN anchor Jake Tapper maybe, just maybe, was thinking of Stone when he tweeted this today:

Watching some prominent meltdowns on Twitter. Quite a sight! pic.twitter.com/g1I9DFdsUY

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 28, 2017

Stone, the consultant and lobbyist whose devotion to Republicans from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump was chronicled in the Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone, flew into high dudgeon Twitter mode after Lemon tweeted the news that a Washington D.C. grand jury filed first charges in Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

The first tweet targeted Tapper, with Stone writing that the anchor “must be held accountable for his lies and very severely punished.”

Stone then went after Lemon, calling him an “ignorant, lying covksucker” (sic), a “dumb piece of sh*t” and a “dull witted arrogant partyboi.” He said Lemon must be “confronted, humiliated, mocked and punished.”

The menacing tone seemed particularly inflammatory coming just days after the New York Police Department confirmed an investigation into “threatening and anti-black messages” tweeted to Lemon.

Here is Stone’s NSFW diatribe:

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143 Comments

nerdrage on October 30, 2017 9:15 am

How can you sue a company for refusing to have you as a customer? Are Twitter users even customers, considering the service is free and ad-supported? Maybe the users are products. Companies can certainly cancel products that don’t fit their brand image and strategy.

Twitter, Facebook etc are not about free speech. They are about serving the advertisers who pay the bills. The users are the products that are being sold. Adjust expectations accordingly.
ThePatriot on October 30, 2017 3:46 am

This is sickening,tired of “special snowflakes” trying to suppress free speech,especially on the internet of all places. Just because someone calls you an ignorant cocksucker,it doesn’t make it “harassment” its a simple statement of opinion. If you’re that easily offended by what someone you don’t like anyway thinks of you,then maybe you shouldn’t be here.just because you don’t agree with what someone has to say,doesn’t mean you don’t have a duty to your country and its fellow citizens to uphold their right to say it,as seen in the various snide comments below.
dee1n0nly on October 30, 2017 3:11 am

White Supremacist at work. It’s about time Twitter start shutting down these hatemongers!!!
Kdellio on October 29, 2017 7:25 pm

Twitter is a private company. You do not have a constitutional right to Twitter. So, what is his basis for a lawsuit?
Bruce on October 29, 2017 7:24 pm

Hillary Clinton and Roger Stone are irrelevant to this story. This story is not about left versus right or even politics in general. It’s about raw and in-your-face censorship, pure and simple. I don’t like the things a lot of people say, including Roger Stone. But we either have free speech or we don’t, and we are slowly or not so slowly forfeiting our right to it. Amazingly, Big Brother, antiquated, I know, really has nothing to do with it. We, ourselves are relinquishing our freedoms one-by-one as if it were some sort of grand accomplishment. It’s amazing to me how Americans have gladly and systematically handed ourselves over to rampant political correctness and pandering to anyone whose feelings exist for the soul purpose being offended. Perhaps I’m out of touch with the culture in which we live; But I thought that was still okay in America. Well, it used to be, anyway.