Stone said that as an elementary school student during the 1960 presidential election, he broke into politics to further John F. He has described his family as middle-class, blue-collar Catholics. Stone) was a well driller and sometime chief of the Vista volunteer Fire Department. 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. He grew up in the community of Vista, part of the town of Lewisboro, New York, on the Connecticut border. Stone was born on August 27, 1952, in Norwalk, Connecticut, to Gloria Rose (Corbo) and Roger J.
Stone officially left the Trump campaign on August 8, 2015. The Netflix documentary film Get Me Roger Stone focuses on Stone's past and role in Trump's presidential campaign. 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 he was Trump's casino business lobbyist in Washington.
Over the course of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, Stone promoted a number of falsehoods and conspiracy theories. : 125Ī longtime friend of Donald Trump, Stone has been variously described as a "renowned infighter", a "seasoned practitioner of hard-edged politics", a "mendacious windbag", a "veteran Republican strategist", and a political fixer. By 1990, it was one of the leading lobbyists for American companies and foreign organizations. corporations and trade associations, as well as foreign governments. : 124 During the 1980s, BMSK became a top lobbying firm by leveraging its White House connections to attract high-paying clients, including U.S.
Kelly and was renamed Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly in 1984. In 1980, he co-founded a Washington, D.C.–based lobbying firm with Paul Manafort and Charles R. In addition to frequently serving as a campaign adviser, Stone was a political lobbyist. Since the 1970s, Stone has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians, including Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, George W. August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist. Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr. 40 months in federal prison (Stone served no time as President Donald Trump commuted his sentence, then pardoned him.)