Left-wing movie direc­tor Oliv­er Stone rips Democ­rats’ ‘lying’ Rus­si­a­gate probe against Trump

Left-wing movie direc­tor Oliv­er Stone slammed Democ­rats for weaponiz­ing fed­er­al law enforce­ment and “lying” in their attempts to charge the pres­i­dent with Russ­ian col­lu­sion dur­ing the 2016 elec­tion.   

Stone, mean­while, applaud­ed Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump for tak­ing steps to find out what real­ly hap­pened, adding that he is “absolute­ly” right that the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment has been weaponized to attack polit­i­cal oppo­nents.

Trump recent­ly signed a new exec­u­tive order direct­ing the FBI to imme­di­ate­ly declas­si­fy files con­cern­ing Cross­fire Hur­ri­cane, the ini­tial inves­ti­ga­tion launched in 2016 that sought infor­ma­tion on whether mem­bers of the Trump cam­paign were col­lud­ing with the Rus­sians to under­mine the elec­tion. The pres­i­dent has also tak­en steps to go after the law firms involved in the scan­dal, includ­ing by sus­pend­ing the secu­ri­ty clear­ances for their attor­neys and bar­ring them from enter­ing any fed­er­al build­ings. 

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“Rus­si­a­gate – we paid for it,” Stone said. “I applaud [what Trump is doing], and I hate what they did with Rus­si­a­gate, I real­ly do. I think it’s – again, the lying, the lying, the lying, and sell­ing that to the Amer­i­can peo­ple.”

When asked if he felt Trump was right about there being weaponiza­tion of the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment against con­ser­v­a­tives, Stone respond­ed: “There was.”

Stone, who has pro­duced sev­er­al doc­u­men­taries sup­port­ing Russ­ian nar­ra­tives about Ukraine, added that the under­ly­ing premise behind Rus­si­a­gate – that Rus­sia is a nefar­i­ous actor – is wrong and “un-Amer­i­can.”

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“They are poten­tial­ly our best part­ners, as are the Chi­nese. I mean, we have this men­tal­i­ty that they’re the ene­my,” Stone said. “That’s all been incul­cat­ed by pro­pa­gan­da. If you go out there to Chi­na, and you go out to Rus­sia, you don’t hear that kind of vitu­per­a­tive dia­logue.”

How­ev­er, while Stone said he agreed with Trump’s approach to tak­ing on those involved with Rus­si­a­gate, he did lament the pres­i­den­t’s attacks on pro-Pales­tin­ian pro­test­ers over alleged anti­semitism.  

“I don’t like this new thing about cen­sor­ship com­ing from Trump,” said Stone. “Against the anti – what he calls ‘anti­se­mit­ic news’ – I mean, I don’t agree. I don’t know where he’s com­ing from, and it’s not what he promised.”