Roger Stone

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Roger Jason Stone Jr. (born August 27, 1952) is an American political consultant, author, lobbyist, and strategist known for his use of opposition research.

He is also a convicted felon.

Since the 1970s, Stone has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, and Donald Trump.

On November 15, 2019, subsequent to results of the Mueller Report and Special Counsel investigation, Stone was convicted of seven felonies related to his work for the Trump campaign, for which he awaits sentencing. In addition to frequently serving as a campaign adviser, Stone was previously a political lobbyist.

In 1980, he co-founded a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying firm with Paul Manafort and Charles R. Black Jr. The firm recruited Peter G. Kelly and was renamed Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly in 1984.

During the 1980s, BMSK became a top lobbying firm by leveraging its White House connections to attract high-paying clients including U.S. corporations, trade associations, as well as foreign governments.

By 1990, it was one of the leading lobbyists for American companies and foreign organizations.Stone has been variously described as a "self-proclaimed dirty trickster," a "renowned infighter," a "seasoned practitioner of hard-edged politics," a "mendacious windbag," a "veteran Republican strategist," and a political fixer.

Over the course of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, Stone promoted a number of falsehoods and conspiracy theories.

He has described his political modus operandi as "Attack, attack, attack – never defend" and "Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack." Stone first suggested Trump run for President in early 1998 while Stone was Trump's casino business lobbyist in Washington.

The Netflix documentary film Get Me Roger Stone focuses on Stone's past and his role in Trump's presidential campaign.Stone officially left the Trump campaign on August 8, 2015; however, as part of the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 United States election, two associates of Stone have said he collaborated with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the 2016 presidential campaign to discredit Hillary Clinton.

Stone and Assange have denied these claims.

On January 25, 2019, Stone was arrested at his Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home in connection with Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation and charged in an indictment with witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding, and five counts of making false statements.

Stone was convicted on all seven counts on November 15, 2019, and is due to be sentenced in February 2020.

Early life and political work

Stone was born on August 27, 1952, in Norwalk, Connecticut, to Gloria Rose (Corbo) and Roger J. Stone. He grew up in the community of Vista, part of the town of Lewisboro, New York, on the Connecticut border. His mother was the president of Meadow Pond Elementary School PTA, a Cub Scout den mother, and occasionally a small-town reporter; his father "Chubby" (also Roger J. Stone) was a well driller and sometime chief of the Vista volunteer Fire Department. He has described his family as middle-class, blue-collar Catholics. His ancestry includes Hungarian and Italian.

Stone said that as an elementary school student during the 1960 presidential election, he broke into politics to further John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign: "I remember going through the cafeteria line and telling every kid that Nixon was in favor of school on Saturdays ... It was my first political trick."

When he was a junior and vice president of student government at John Jay High School in northern Westchester County, New York, he manipulated the ouster of the student government president and succeeded him. Stone recalled how he ran for election as president for his senior year: "I built alliances and put all my serious challengers on my ticket. Then I recruited the most unpopular guy in the school to run against me. You think that's mean? No, it's smart."

Given a copy of Barry Goldwater's The Conscience of a Conservative, Stone became drawn to conservatism as a child and a volunteer in Goldwater's 1964 campaign. In 2007, Stone indicated he was a staunch conservative but with libertarian leanings.

As a student at George Washington University in 1972, Stone invited Jeb Stuart Magruder to speak at a Young Republicans Club meeting, then asked Magruder for a job with Richard Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President. Magruder agreed and Stone then left college to work for the committee.

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Career

Stone's political career began on the 1972 Nixon campaign, involving pledges to a potential Nixon foe in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance and then transferring the money to the Manchester Union-Leader. Eventually, Magruder and Herbert Porter recruited Stone to spy on rival presidential campaigns during the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries. Edmund Muskie and Hubert Humphrey were among the candidates hired by Stone later hired Michael McMinoway to infiltrate the campaigns of opponents. He also recruited a spies in Humphrey's campaign, who later became Humphrey's chauffeur. During the day, Stone said he was officially a scheduler in the Nixon campaign, but "By night, I'm trafficking in the black arts." Nixon's followers were obsessive with intelligence." Stone maintains he did not do anything unlawful during the Watergate affair. Stone's 20-year-old junior scheduler on the campaign had been named as one of Nixon's aides or consultants, according to the Richard Nixon Foundation, characterization of Stone as one of Nixon's advisers or consultants was a "gross misstatement."

Stone worked in the Office of Economic Opportunity after Nixon won the 1972 presidential election. Stone resigned as a Nixon "dirty trickster" after Nixon resigned, but was later fired after columnist Jack Anderson publicly referred to Stone as a Nixon "dirty trickster."

Stone helped establish the National Conservative Political Action Committee, a New Right group that pioneered independent expenditure political advertising in 1975.

He served in Ronald Reagan's campaign for President Barack Obama in the 1976 Republican primaries. Stone won the presidency of the Young Republicans in 1977, a campaign led by his buddy Paul Manafort; the pair had compiled a dossier on each of the 800 delegates gathered, which they described as "whip books."

Stone went on to serve as the chief strategist for Thomas Kean's campaign in 1981 and 1985, as well as his reelection bid.

Stone, the "keeper of the Nixon flame," was an advisor to the former President in his post-war years, serving as "Nixon's man in Washington." Stone, a protégé of former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge, who introduced the young Stone to former Vice President Nixon in 1967, was a protégé of former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge. Following Stone's indictment in 2019, the Nixon Foundation released a statement condemning Stone's connections to Nixon. Stone was recruited by John Sears to help coordinate the Northeast in Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. Roy Cohn aided him in arranging the nomination of the Liberal Party of New York, a step that will help split the opposition to Reagan in the state. Cohn gave him a suitcase that Stone refused to open, and Stone told him that he dropped off at the office of a lawyer with a strong liberal Party network. Reagan won the state with 46% of the vote. Stone later said, "I paid his law firm" after the statute of limitations for bribery had expired. Legal fees are included in the package. I'm not sure what he did for the money, but the Liberal Party came to its right decision out of principle," says the author.

Stone and Manafort decided to go into business together with partner Charlie Black in 1980, building a political consulting and lobbying firm to cash in on their existing government links into the new administration. Manafort & Stone (BMS), one of Washington, D.C.'s first mega-lobbying firms, was cited as central to Ronald Reagan's 1984 campaign. After being in the top spot on Reagan-Bush 1984, Republican political strategist Lee Atwater joined the company in 1985.

Because of BMS's willingness to represent violent third-world tyrants like Mobutu Sese Seko in Zaire and Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines, the firm was named "The Torturer' Lobby." BMS has also represented a number of high-powered corporate clients, including Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, The Tobacco Institute, and, eventually, Donald Trump, who appeared in the early 1980s.

Stone served as senior advisor to Jack Kemp's presidential campaign, which was led by consulting partner Charlie Black in 1987 and 1988. His other coworkers all worked for George H. Bush (Lee Atwater as campaign manager and Paul Manafort as director of operations in the fall campaign).

Time claimed in April 1992 that Stone was involved in the uproarious Willie Horton ads to support George H.W. Bush's 1988 presidential campaign, which had been targeted at Democratic adversary Michael Dukakis. Stone has said that he begged Lee Atwater not to include Horton in the ad. Stone denied creating or distributing the advertisement, but said it was Atwater's doing.

Stone and Manafort lost their business in the 1990s. Though their lives took them in different directions, their family bonds stayed close. Anne Elizabeth Wesche, Stone's first wife, married him in 1974. Ann E.W.'s name was used to describe Ann E.W. Stone was a founder of Republicans for Choice in 1989. In 1990, the two married.

Stone was the president of Republican Senator Arlen Specter's campaign for the 1996 Republican presidential primaries in 1995. With less than 2% support, the specter started early in the campaign season.

Stone was a lobbyist for Donald Trump's casino industry for many years, as well as being instrumental in opposing expanded casino gambling in New York State, putting him into conflict with Governor George Pataki.

Stone resigned from a consultancy to Senator Bob Dole's 1996 race after The National Enquirer revealed that Stone had placed advertisements and photos on websites and swingers' publications looking for sexual partners for himself and Nydia Bertran Stone, his second wife. Stone denied the investigation at first. "An exhaustive probe now shows that a domestic employee, who I dismissed for drug use on the second time, was responsible for my drug use, access to my computer, knowledge of my password, access to my account, and access to my post-office box," the perpetrator says. Stone confirmed that the advertisements were real in a 2008 interview with The New Yorker.

Stone served as the campaign manager for Donald Trump's aborted bid for President in the 2000 Republican primaries. Wayne Barrett, an investigative journalist, accused Stone of persuading Trump to officially consider a bid for the Reform nomination, to sideline Pat Buchanan and sabotage the Reform Party in an attempt to lower their vote total to benefit George W. Bush's campaign.

Stone was hired by James Baker later this year to help with public relations during the Florida recount, according to Stone and the film Recount. Stone was a key figure in organising the so-called Brooks Brothers riot, the resistance by Republican activists against the recount, according to reporter Greg Palast.

Stone served with businessman Thomas Golisano's campaign for governor of New York State in the 2002 New York gubernatorial election.

Stone served as an advisor (apparently unpaid) to Al Sharpton, a Democratic presidential nominee running in the 2004 primaries. Sharpton denied Stone's presence, saying, "I've been talking to Roger Stone for a long time." That doesn't mean he's calling the shots for me. Don't forget that Bill Clinton was doing more than just talking to Dick Morris." Stone, according to critics, was only working with Sharpton as a way to undermine the Democratic Party's chances of winning the election. Sharpton denies that Stone had any influence on his campaign.

A blogger accused Stone of responsibility for the Kerry–Specter campaign books, which were distributed in Pennsylvania, in that election. Such signals were seen as a way to compel Democrats to vote for then Republican Senator Arlen Specter in largely Democratic Philadelphia, which was seen as an attempt to compel Kerry to vote for then Republican Senator Arlen Specter.

During the 2004 general election, Stone was accused by then-DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe of forging the Killian memos that caused CBS News to report that President Bush did not fulfill his service duties while enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard. In his allegations, McAuliffe cited a study published in the New York Post. Stone denied that he forged the documents.

Stone, a top advisor at the time to Joseph Bruno (the Majority Leader of the New York State Senate), was forced to resign by Bruno after reports that Stone had assaulted Bernard Spitzer, the then-83-year-old father of Democratic presidential candidate Eliot Spitzer. An expletive-laced message was left on the elder Spitzer's answering machine on August 6, 2007, threatening to sue the man if he did not implicate his son in wrongdoing. Bernard Spitzer retained a private detective firm that traced the call to Roger Stone's wife's phone number. Roger Stone denied leaving the message, despite the fact that his voice was acknowledged, saying he was at a film that later was not to have been shown that night. Stone was accused of being the witness on an expletive-laden voicemail attacking Bernard Spitzer, father of Eliot, with subpoenas on August 22, 2007. "They caught Roger red-handed, lying," Donald Trump was quoted as saying of the incident. What he did was ridiculous and stupid."

Stone has denied the allegations on record. Afterwards, he resigned from his position as a consultant to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee at Bruno's behest.

Stone founded Citizens United Not Timid, an anti-Hillary Clinton 527 group with an intentionally offensive name.

Stone is included in Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story, a documentary about Lee Atwater that was released in 2008. He was also featured in Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, the 2010 film about the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal.

During this period, former Trump advisor Sam Nunberg considers Stone his mentor and his "surrogate father."

Kristin Davis, a madam embroiled in the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, became the campaign manager for governor of New York in the 2010 election. Stone said that the campaign was not a hoax, a prank, or a publicity stunt. I want to get her a half-million votes." However, Stone was later seen at a campaign rally for Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino, of whom Stone has praised favorably. Stone admittedly that she had been supporting both campaigns and advising them on the grounds that they were campaigning for permanent election access for her party, and that Paladino was in contention to win (and was Stone's most favored candidate). Stone did not believe he had a conflict of interest in supporting both candidates as a result. Warren Redlich, the Libertarian nominee for Governor, argued that Stone collaborated with "People for a Safer New York" to send a flyer naming Redlich as a "sexual predator" and "sick, twisted pervert" on the basis of a blog post Redlich's 2008. Redlich later sued Stone in a New York court for defamation of the flyers and sought $20 million in fees. However, the jury delivered a verdict in favour of Stone in December 2017, finding that Redlich was unable to establish that Stone was involved with the flyers.

In his 2011 campaign for mayor of Miami Beach, Florida, Stone volunteered as an unpaid advisor to comedian Steve Berke ("a libertarian member of his so-called After Party" as an unpaid adviser. In the run-up to incumbent Mayor Matti Herrera Bower, Berke lost the election.

Stone said in February 2012 that he had changed his Republican Party membership to the Libertarian Party. In 2016, Stone predicted a "Libertarian moment" and the resignation of the Republican Party.

Stone announced in June 2012 that he was running a super PAC to help former New Mexico governor and Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, who had appeared at a Reason magazine Christmas party two years ago. Johnson had a legitimate role to play, according to Stone, although "I have no allusions [sic] of him winning."

Stone was considered a Libertarian nominee for governor of Florida in 2014, but in a statement that he did not run but that he wanted to campaign in favor of the 2014 Florida Amendment 2 referendum that legalizes medical marijuana.

Stone served as an advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. Stone resigned on August 8, 2015, despite media reports that he resigned and Trump claimed that Stone was fired. Despite all of this, Stone continued to support Trump. Stone wrote an op-ed titled "The man who just resigned from Donald Trump's campaign" a few days later, proving how Trump can still win for Business Insider.

Despite calling Stone a "stone-cold loser" in a 2008 interview and accusing him of seeking too much attention shortly after his departure from the campaign, Donald Trump lauded him during an appearance on Alex Jones' radio show orchestrated by Stone in December 2015. Trump said, "Roger is a good guy." "He has been so loyal and so generous." Throughout the campaign, Stone remained an informal advisor and media survivor for Trump.

Stone had considered running in the 2016 United States Senate race in Florida to oppose white nationalist Augustus Invictus for the Libertarian nomination. He did not enter the contest in the first place.

Stone was barred from appearing on CNN and MSNBC after making a string of insulting Twitter posts disparaging television stars during the 2016 election. Stone referred specifically to CNN analyst Ana Navarro as a "entitled diva bitch" and imagined her "killing herself" and feared her "killing herself," and described CNN anchor Roland Martin as a "fat negro" and a "fat negro." Stone's tweets were described as "nasty" and "large," according to Erik Wemple, a Washington Post reporter. CNN announced in February 2016 that it would no longer allow Stone to appear on its website, and MSNBC followed suit, announcing in April 2016 that Stone had also been barred from the network. Stone told Tom Ashbrook in On Point in June 2016: "I'd have to admit that calling Roland Martin a "fat negro" was a two-martini tweet, and I regret it." Ana Navarro's debating of her as a competent individual was unqualified. Given her lack of qualifications, I'm not sure why she's there.

Ted Cruz, Trump's Republican primary rival, had extramarital affairs with five people, according to an article in the tabloid magazine National Enquirer in March 2016. Stone wrote, "These stories have been buzzing about Cruz for a long time." I believe there is fire where there is smoke." Cruz denied the charges (calling it "garbage" and a "tabloid smear) and accused the Trump administration, and Stone in particular, of orchestrating a coordinated smear campaign against him. "It's a story that quots one person on the record, Roger Stone, Donald Trump's chief political advisor," Cruz said. Mr. Stone is a man with 50 years of dirty tricks behind him, and I would point out that he is a man with 50 years of dirty tricks behind him. He's a man for whom a term was coined for copulating with a rodent." Cruz also deblasted Stone in April 2016, saying on The Sean Hannity Show of Stone: "He is pulling the strings on Donald Trump." He planned the Trump campaign and is both Trump's henchman and dirty trickster. Following this pattern, Donald keeps identifying himself with those who promote violence." Stone likened Cruz to Richard Nixon, accusing him of being a liar.

Stone formed Stop the Steal, a pro-Trump activist group, and feared "Days of Rage" if Republican party leaders wanted to deny the nomination to Trump at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in April. Stone "is coordinating [Trump] supporters as a power of coercion," the Washington Post said, noting that Stone "has... threatened to publicly reveal the hotel room numbers of delegates who work against Trump." Stone's attempt to publicize the hotel room numbers of delegates was "completely over the point," according to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.

After Trump had been chastised at the Democratic National Convention for his remarks on Muslims by Khizr Khan, a Pakistani American whose son earned a posthumous Bronze Star Medal and Purple Heart in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004, Stone made headlines criticizing Khan's accusation of sympathizing with the enemy.

Stone was the subject of a Netflix documentary film titled Get Me Roger Stone, which focuses on his past and his participation in Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid. Stone first suggested a bid for President in early 1998, but in Washington, it was Trump's casino lobbyist.

Stone called Saudi Arabia "an enemy" and slammed Trump's visit to Riyadh in May 2017. "Instead of consulting with the Saudi government or members of the Saudi royal family specifically financing the September 11 attacks, Trump suggested that they pay for the attack on America on 9/11, which they funded."

Stone often promoted conspiracy theories during his campaign, including the false assertion that Clinton aide Huma Abedin was connected to the Muslim Brotherhood. Stone decided to retract a misrepresentation made during the campaign in December 2018: that Guo Wengui had donated to Hillary Clinton as part of a defamation deal.

Stone told InfoWars' Alex Jones on September 10, 2020, that if Trump were to miss the 2020 United States presidential election, he might consider declaring martial law through the Insurrection Act and confiscate ballots, particularly in Nevada, where federal marshals were "completely corrupted" and therefore "should be confiscated by federal marshals." In addition, Stone advised that the president use federal law to arrest leading businessmen Tim Cook and Mark Zuckerberg, as well as politicians Bill and Hillary Clinton for "illegal conduct" and closing down the opinion website The Daily Beast for "seditious" conduct; "this is war," the president said.

Stone said he had "learned of irrefutable evidence of North Korean boats delivering ballots through a Maine harbor," despite a slew of false and unsubstantiated voter fraud charges emerging following the 2020 presidential election. The "vague rumors have absolutely no credibility," Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said. In a 2020 interview with Tucker Carlson, Trump was also dubbed "the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln."

Stone has consistently stated that if he ran for a second non-consecutive term in the 2024 United States presidential election, he would support Trump, as well as Ron DeSantis for "disloyalty" amid rumors that he will run his presidential campaign.

During its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Stone said that Vladimir Putin was "acting defensively" in order to stop a shaming of a government-funded biological program, which, in fact, did not exist.

Stone had joined the Ontario Party's campaign staff as a Senior Strategic Advisor for the 2022 Ontario general election, which was announced on April 25, 2022. Stone had previously joined party leader Derek Sloan to address the party's convention and chastised Ontario Premier Doug Ford's commitment to conservatism, according to a media release released by the Ontario Party.

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