Roger Stone raged at ‘disgrace’ Trump over failure to overturn election – report

Washington Post report, based on unseen film footage, also says Stone, 69, said Jared Kushner needs to have a beating'

Close Donald Trump ally Roger Stone raged at the former US president in the aftermath of the failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election, according to a report from the Washington Post, telling a friend that Trump was a disgrace" who would go to prison and adding: He betrayed everybody."

The Post said it had viewed 20 hours of footage of the political operative that had been shot for a forthcoming documentary. The footage, it said, showed Stone:

Meeting and corresponding with members of a far-right militia since indicted for seditious conspiracy over the Capitol riot on January 6.

Discussing a plan in which Trump would issue a blanket pardon to co-conspirators in the attempt to overturn the election, Senator Ted Cruz and congressman Jim Jordan among them.

Saying Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and close adviser, should be punished" in a way that would leave him braindead".

Suggesting violence against protesters for racial justice would be possible with the election out of the way.