In December 2020, one month after Donald Trump’s defeat to Joe Biden, Stone was working on the effort to overturn the election. In audio from that time reviewed exclusively by Mediaite, Stone can be heard at his Florida condo speaking with Sal Greco, who was an NYPD officer and served as security for Stone. (Greco would, months later, be fired by the NYPD over his ties to Stone, who he was with during the Jan. 6 riot.)
In the audio, the pair discuss Aaron Zelinsky, a prosecutor who served as a deputy to former Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and who led the case against Stone.
“He needs to be punished,” Stone tells Greco in the audio. “You have to abduct him and punish him. That has to be done. It will be easy to abduct him because he is a weakling.”
A source familiar with the discussions between Stone and Greco said the political operative had a “vendetta” against Zelinsky because of his role in the Mueller probe.
“Roger Stone holds a vendetta forever,” the source said. “Aaron Zelinsky is top on his list.”