I really enjoyed this video. Roger Stone just basically says exactly what’s on his mind.

***NSFW due to a bit of profanity***




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/JK3ePiaPU7E

Yikes, that went off the rails quickly.

Only had 2 depositions end with threats of violence. One was a female attorney who had been called a bitch by the guy we were deposing. After about the 3rd time he did it she offered to take him outside and beat the shit out of him.

Things got awkward fast after that.....

Thanks. I will definitely check this out. Depositions are usually deadly dull, but can be quite entertaining on occasion.

My first boss was general counsel of a Chicago grocery chain. He would sometimes get deposed by someone suing the company and he used scorched earth tactics because he hated being deposed.

Plaintiff's attorney (first question):
What is your name?

GC Woods
Joseph A Woods

Plaintiff's attorney:
What does the 'A' stand for?

GC Woods
None of your business

Years later, I worked for a enterprise software company. One of our products was sold before all the bugs were worked out and some unhappy customers sued. Sure enough, discovery uncovered some damning emails from our developers who assumed no one would ever see the conversations they had over email. Our law firm used his deposition in a training video.

Customer's attorney:
Mr. X, I have your email here of Feb 5th, quote "This product is a piece of shit. My team is still finding major issues in the code. I can't believe the sales guys actually intend to sell this crap to customers", end quote.

Developer:
Um, yeah. I didn't really mean that.

Customer's attorney:
Really? Perhaps you could explain to us what you really did mean?

Well nobody can say he isn’t a salty old bastard

Whoever that was deposing Stone, what the hell was doing keeping touching his arm? I'm surprised Stone did tell him to "Keep your fucking hand off me".

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Whoever that was deposing Stone, what the hell was doing keeping touching his arm? I'm surprised Stone did tell him to "Keep your fucking hand off me".

I was wondering that too. But, I suspect that was his atty trying to rein him in while the guy he was sparring with was on that side too and so it looks like it's the same person.

Regardless, it was a pretty entertaining.

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I think this the deposition of Roger Stone for the Defamation lawsuit filed by Jerome Corsi and Larry Klayman.

The Federal Judged just tossed this lawsuit out on April 9th calling it “jenga-like”

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Stone reminds me of the typical mob boss. He would have fit right in with the Sopranos cast.

Jim

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I was wondering that too. But, I suspect that was his atty trying to rein him in while the guy he was sparring with was on that side too and so it looks like it's the same person.

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Yeah. She is not bright enough to realize that she cannot get him to be quiet or less argumentative. Not a mob boss scenario. No sunglasses and pleading the Fifth. LOL

That was great! Hahahaha.

Stone didn't throttle the guy. Bravo.

Ha, great entertainment this morning.

Stone's book, 'Stone's Rules', is considered by some (perhaps himself?) to be the 21st century 'Art of War'.

Love him or hate him?
Is he the patriot?

That lead me down a rabbit hole - the Stone Zone.

The latest? Stone accuses Bill Gates of using the pandemic to push for vaccinations and micro chipping.

Because, you know, people talk.

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Originally posted by Jimbo54:
Stone reminds me of the typical mob boss. He would have fit right in with the Sopranos cast.

Jim

Funny, I was thinking Roger Sterling on "Mad Men".

What was his relationship with the attorney deposing him? I am not up to speed on Roger Stone.

That sounds like the actual plaintiff deposing Mr. Stone. I dont care if he is a lawyer, that ain't right. It makes it seem like he knows his case will be tossed and just wants one last "legal" face to face throwdown with the defendant.

His arrest was a political joke.

You can see the pure rage in Stone's face. The man was positively vibrating with anger. It looked like he would kill at any moment.

"Have fun molesting your own children, Larry?"

"Fuck you."

Yea, entertaining.

I've seen a few depositions go that way. I thought they were mostly that way. We have a defense attorney here who almost always did depositions on criminal cases. He has a particular way of pissing people off. He even tried to subpoena a home invasion/rape victim to be deposed in the presence of her attacker. The subpoena was quashed but you can imagine how exchanges between he and some of the people he subpoenaed would go.

Seems like a set of perfectly reasonable responses and a deserved tone to cunty badgering questions.

(shrug)

If most don't go that way, perhaps they should.

I couldn't watch the whole thing. I've deposed dozens of witnesses. Witnesses like Stone are kind of fun to depose. You can wind them up, make them lose their temper, and let them self-destruct.

They think they are being clever, and are giving as good as they get with their bluff and bluster and attacks on the questioner. In fact, juries and judges (when sitting as fact-finders) generally hate witnesses like that and often take the counter-attacks to be efforts to avoid answering the questions and to obscure the truth. If you make even a modicum of effort to not join that witness at his level and keep your questions relevant and on point, they hang themselves with their "cleverness." A witness like that can only get away with that behavior if the questions are completely out of order, either in terms of relevance or tone.

I think those observers who think he was justified are sympathetic to his political position, which obscures his unlikable bitchiness.

(And that had to be his own lawyer touching him, and trying to rein him in. Opposing counsel would never touch or be allowed to touch a witness. It is generally improperish to give signals to a witness like that, but he was so out of control.)