Roger Stone

My name is Roger Stone, and I'm an agent provocateur.

Roger Jason Stone, Jr. is an American ratfucker who got his start in Nixon's second term by volunteering for Chuck Colson's ever-so-appropriately named CREEP (Committee to Re-Elect the President). After Nixon was re-elected, Stone was given a position in the Office of Economic Opportunity at age 20. Stone even has a tattoo of Nixon on his back just in case anyone asks to see his Tricky Dick. Stone was investigated by the Senate Watergate Committee but not indicted, indicating that he was likely ineffective.

Spoiler alert
In 1976, Stone worked with pioneering political direct mail scamster artist Stone worked on Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign. After the statute of limitations had expired, Stone claimed that he had been a bagman for Roy Cohn's bribery of the Liberal Party to endorse John B. Anderson as a third-party candidate in the 1980 Presidential race. This was likely done under the false impression that Anderson would be a spoiler candidate that would have hurt Jimmy Carter's chances against Ronald Reagan; Anderson's supporters turned out to be about equally split between Carter and Reagan.

Fun with dictators
In the early 1980s, Stone, Paul Manafort, and  formed the lobbying firm  (BMSK), whose clients included warlords such as  of Angola and dictators such as  of Nigeria and  of Kenya, as well as somewhat less nefarious clients like Big Tobacco, Multilevel marketing operations like Herbalife, and right-wing politicians like Phil Gramm. According to Stone, the firm "lined up most of the dictators in the world that we could find. Pro-western dictators, of course. Dictators are in the eye of the beholder." The firm was regarded as one of the "Torturer's Lobbies" by The Center for Public Integrity in 1992.

More spoilage
From 1995 through 2014, Stone was involved with a few spoiler candidates, including no-chance-of-winning presidential runs of Arlen Specter's (1995), Trump's first run as a member of the Reform Party (2000), Al Sharpton (2004), and Gary Johnson (2012). Given Stone's role in bribery and the Anderson candidacy of 1980, these could all be chalked up as political dirty tricks. For example, Stone supported the candidacy of Libertarian candidate who ran a high-end prostitution ring, for governor of New York, stating "This is not a hoax, a prank or a publicity stunt. I want to get her a half-million votes." Stone later confessed to supporting both Davis and Republican Carl Paladino, indicating he was attempting to carve votes from the Democratic candidate with Davis. In July 2018, Davis was subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, presumably in connection with Stone who has been under investigation.

Astroturf riot
During the Florida ballot recount of the contested 2000 U.S. presidential election, Stone claimed to have organized the so-called an astroturf demonstration of primarily paid GOP staffers from Washington DC, who weren't even dressed in Brooks Brothers suits. Another lobbyist (Brad Blakeman) claimed that he was responsible for organizing it.

Work for Donald Trump
It is better to be infamous than never be famous at all. Stone was a lobbyist for Donald Trump's New Jersey casino business for several years before it went bankrupt.

Stone was a campaign advisor for Trump until August 8, 2015; he was either fired or quit, depending on which liar one believes. Despite this disagreement, Stone has continued to enthusiastically support Trump.

In April 18, 2014, Stone tweeted, "…Soviet Agent Bernie Saunders [sic], Should be arrested for treason and shot." Despite Stone's violent hostility towards Sanders in 2014, he stated in 2015: I'm 100 percent for Trump, and I must tell you I like Bernie Sanders, even though his philosophy is different than mine. Both these candidates are outsiders, both these candidates are nonestablishment candidates. The same anger and frustration by the voters that's propelling Trump is also propelling Sanders. That which is irony (e.g., Trump and BMSK's Russian connections) for a normal person is ratfucking for Stone.

Stone was thanked by Russian-linked hacker(s) and was in contact with Russian-linked WikiLeaks' Julian Assange in 2016. Stone also seems to have had a curious and repeated Freudian slip, wherein he referred to the hacker as "Gruccifer" on 5 occasions in March 11-26, 2017, seemingly a mashup of the Russian military spy agency + Guccifer. Stone has repeatedly lied or mischaracterized his contacts with both Wikileaks and Russia during the 2016 Presidential campaign.

As of May 2018, Stone has reportedly become the focus of FBI special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into his links with Assange, Rick Gates (who pleaded guilty to two charges and is cooperating with Mueller's team), and Russian attempts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election in favor of Trump.

On January 25 2019, Stone was arrested in Florida by the FBI and charged by Special Counsel Robert Mueller investigating the Trump-Russia connection with one count of obstruction of proceedings, five counts of making false statements, and one of witness tampering. He was released on a $250,000 bail but was only allowed to travel for court appearances in Florida, Washington, D.C., and New York. In mid-February, a federal judge in the District of Columbia imposed a limited gag order to Roger Stone in order to ensure a fair trial and "to maintain the dignity and seriousness of the courthouse and these proceedings," citing the “size and vociferousness” of crowds attracted to Stone’s court appearances and the possibility of his statements prejudicing his jurors. This order bars him from speaking on matters directly related to his trial. It also prohibits him and his lawyers from talking to reporters on they way in and out of the courthouse.

In their closing arguments to the jury, Stone's defense team asked that the verdict be treated as a referendum on the Mueller investigation. On November 15 2019, Stone was convicted on seven counts of lying to Congress and jury tampering. In February 2020, Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison.

Based on documents released by indicted former-Seminole County, Florida tax official Joel Greenberg, it appeared that Stone was willing to accept $250,000 in Bitcoin in return for facilitating a pardon for Greenberg from Trump. Though the pardon did not eventuate, attempted bribery is a felony and Stone was only pardoned for prior felonies. Greenberg had indicated to Stone that he had been pressured to flip on their mutual friend Representative Matt Gaetz, since he had information to implicate Gaetz in the same crime as one that he had been charged with, paying for sex with an underage teen.

After Trump was defeated by Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, Stone helped mobilize the protest movement to support Trump's Big Lie that the election was supposedly fraudulent. This movement ultimately culminated on January 6, 2021 with the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. Although Stone condemned the riot itself (calling it "really bad for the (pro-Trump) movement"), before and after the riot, Stone communicated with many members of the Oath Keepers (including leader Stewart Rhodes); many of the same Oath Keeper members would later be charged in early 2022 with seditious conspiracy for actions they undertook during the riot.

A video of Stone was shown of him becoming a member of the Proud Boys, though he had previously denied being affiliated with them. Stone was also photographed with members of the Proud Boys who were serving as his body guards at a January 5 Washington, DC rally preceding the 2021 coup attempt. Several members of the Proud Boys have been indicted for seditious conspiracy in connection with the coup attempt.

Pardon me (I did't do nothin')
The only reason I know to ask for a pardon is because you think you've committed a crime.

After the riot, Stone lobbied Trump to issue preemptive pardons for a wide range of individuals. In describing his proposed massive list of Presidential pardons for Trump before leaving office (the "Stone Plan"), he likened it to Franklin D. Roosevelt's rescuing people from the Holocaust. The list included:


 * Stephen Michael Alford (convicted of fraud),
 * Julian Assange (preemptive)
 * Steven Brown, convicted of massive financial fraud
 * Carlos Garvidia (charged with making threats on someone's life)
 * Karen Giorno of Newsmax
 * Rudy Giuliani
 * Joel Greenberg (pleaded guilty to including sex trafficking of a minor)
 * Ahmad "Andy" Khawaja, charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud
 * Bernard Kerik (previously convicted and pardoned on tax fraud, ethics violations and perjury) (preemptive)
 * Victor Orena (convicted Colombo crime family member)
 * Scott Robinson
 * Michael Sessa (convicted Colombo crime family member)
 * Sam Sharma
 * Edward Snowden (preemptive)
 * Roger Stone (preemptive)


 * Trump family members
 * Donald Trump Jr., specifically


 * a few African Americans, all deceased, except:
 * Demetrious Flenory, known as “Big Meech”, convicted member of the Black Mafia Family

The plan never eventuated, but as a Nazi analogy it was clearly a case of schizofascism.
 * every Republican remember of either House or Senate who voted for you, and specifically:
 * Representative Matt Gaetz (preemptive)
 * Representative Mo Brooks (preemptive)
 * Representative Andy Biggs (preemptive)
 * Representative Paul Gosar (preemptive)
 * Representative Jim Jordan (preemptive)
 * Senator Ted Cruz (preemptive)
 * Senator Josh Hawley (preemptive)

Conspiracy theories
Stone has had a longtime affiliation with Infowars that includes a daily show as of 2017. Stone has also been affiliated with fellow-conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, though Corsi sued Stone in 2019 for defamation.

Some of the ludicrous conspiracy theories that Stone has promoted:
 * Lyndon B. Johnson was responsible for John F. Kennedy's assassination Stone's book on this theory failed to even impress The Washington Times: "The title pretty much explains the book's theory. If a reader doesn't let facts get in the way, it could be an interesting adventure."
 * The Clintons murdered who died in a plane crash.
 * Hillary Clinton's advisor, Huma Abedin, was "most likely a Saudi spy".
 * The murder of Seth Rich was connected to Hillary Clinton.
 * Bill Clinton had an illegitimate black son.
 * Barack Obama birtherism
 * He has claimed that he was poisoned with polonium by someone trying to frame Russia, but he has refused to give medical evidence and he has not shown any signs of radiation poisoning (e.g. total hair loss, as was the case with Alexander Litvinenko whom Russia did poison with polonium ).
 * Stone has claimed that Bill Gates and other are using the COVID pandemic as an excuse to microchip people. Stone has also appeared at several anti-vaxxer events.

Given Stone’s history of ratfucking and the nature of these conspiracy theories, it's quite possible that Stone doesn’t actually believe in any of them, but that this is just another line of ratfucking (and profiting).

Anger and bigotry
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. @RVAwong bring it! Would enjoy crush u in court and forcing you to eat shit — you stupid ignorant ugly bitch! Stone was banned in 2016 from both CNN and MSNBC for posting "nasty and bigoted" tweets against journalists on Twitter. His misogynistic and racist rants have even gotten him temporarily banned on Fox News.

In October 2017, Stone went volcanic on Twitter, again by cursing several journalists ("targeted abuse"), resulting in his permanent banning from Twitter. The tirade had immediately followed the announcement of the first grand jury indictments connected to Russian election hacking, which included indictments against his former-partner, Manafort. Could Stone's apeshittery have been due to his consciousness of guilt?