Be Afraid.  Be Very Afraid.

One of the greatest foundational principles of American government is the orderly transfer of power at the end of one administration and the beginning of another.  Now Roger Stone, a Trump “ally and unofficial advisor” who has been actively involved in Trump’s campaign since well before the convention, shows his utter contempt for this principle.  This is the same man who said at the RNC about delegates planning to vote against Trumps nomination that “’We’ll tell you who the culprits are,’ Stone added. ‘We urge you to visit their hotel and find them.’ (He said in a subsequent interview that ‘we’re not talking about roughing anybody up.’)”  (Numerous news outlets reported his statement.)

Now he’s echoing Trump’s idea that the election will be “rigged.”  Last week, on the strongly-conservative pro-Trump site Breitbart, Stone says the following:

I think he’s gotta put them on notice that their inauguration will be a rhetorical, and when I mean civil disobedience, not violence, but it will be a bloodbath. The government will be shut down if they attempt to steal this and swear Hillary in. No, we will not stand for it. We will not stand for it.

Note, again, that this quotation is from a pro-Trump website.  There would be no reason for the interviewer to spin or misquote Stone’s words.  He means what he says.  (How you can have a “bloodbath” and not have violence is beyond me.)

So, as I said in an earlier post, the election is only rigged according to Trump and his campaign when his poll numbers start going down.  He will not accept defeat graciously.  But, as I have also said before, I believe that the vast, vast majority of the American people are too intelligent to be fooled by this blatant attempt to manipulate and intimidate them.