Roger Jason Stone is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist. Stone has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. In November 2019, subsequent to the Mueller report and Special Counsel investigation, he was convicted on seven felony counts, including witness tampering and lying to investigators. Stone was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison. The sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump on July 10, 2020, and he was further pardoned on December 23, 2020.
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Roger Jason Stone is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist. Stone has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump. In November 2019, subsequent to the Mueller report and Special Counsel investigation, he was convicted on seven felony counts, including witness tampering and lying to investigators. Stone was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison. The sentence was commuted by President Donald Trump on July 10, 2020, and he was further pardoned on December 23, 2020. 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. 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. Stone first suggested Trump run for president in early 1998 while he was Trump’s casino business lobbyist in Washington. As a student at George Washington University in 1972, Stone invited Jeb Magruder to speak at a Young Republicans Club meeting, then asked for a job with Richard Nixon’s Committee to Re-elect President. Stone became a convert to conservatism as a child and a volunteer in Goldwater’s 1964 campaign. In 2007, Stone indicated he was a staunch conservative with libertarian leanings. He has described his political modus operandi as \”Attack, attack, attack – never defend\” and “Admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.” Stone said that as an elementary school student in 1960, 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.’’ In 1980, he co-founded a Washington, D. C. –based lobbying firm with Paulafort and Charles R. Black Jr. The firm recruited Peter G. Kelly and was renamed Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly in 1984. 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” and a ‘mendacious windbag’ He has been a longtime friend of Donald Trump, and has advised him on a number of issues, including the 2016 Republican presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee. Stone is married to former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and has a daughter, Alexa Stone, and son-in-law, Michael Stone. He is the co-founder of a political action committee that promotes conservative causes in Washington, DC. He was arrested at his Fort Lauderdale, Florida, home in January 2019 and charged in an indictment with witness tampering, obstructing an official proceeding, and five counts of making false statements. In April 2020, days before he was scheduled to report to federal prison, Trump commuted Stone’s sentence.
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