Stone, a self-described dirty trickster who considers former President Richard Nixon his political hero, went on the attack after his arrest.
He was interviewed by Alex Jones, his fellow host on the right-wing conspiracy site Infowars, even before leaving the Florida courthouse where he appeared hours after his arrest.
Stone, who has pleaded not guilty, called his case a “lynching” perpetuated by Mueller. And he kept up the theatrics in the weeks after his arrest.
After he was arraigned in Washington, the sartorially obsessed Stone starred in a video posted by conservative outlet The Daily Caller explaining how to properly dress for court.
On Monday, Stone shared the photo of Jackson — a grainy, close-cropped shot of the judge’s face with a crosshair symbol next to her head — on his Instagram account.
The post included a message criticizing Mueller and suggesting that Jackson was politically biased.
“Through legal trickery Deep State hitman Robert Mueller has guaranteed that my upcoming show trial is before Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointed Judge who dismissed the Benghazi charges against Hillary Clinton and incarcerated Paul Manafort prior to his conviction for any crime . #fixisin,” Stone said in the post. He removed it within hours after it generated widespread notice online.
The scathing message came mere days after Jackson barred Stone from making statements to the media and in public that risked prejudicing the case against him.
The Instagram post spurred his lawyers to take the highly unusual step of apologizing to the judge in a court filings.
“Undersigned counsel, with the attached authority of Roger J. Stone, hereby apologizes to the Court for the improper photograph and comment posted on Instagram today. Mr. Stone recognizes the impropriety and had it removed,” Stone’s lawyers wrote in a filing Monday evening.
But the next day, Jackson wrote in her own filing:
“Defendant is ORDERED to show cause at a hearing as to why the media contact order entered in this case and/or his conditions of release should not be modified or revoked in light of the posts on his Instagram account on or about February 18, 2019.”
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