Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant, lobbyist, and convicted felon. Stone is most remembered for the Robert Mueller special council investigation, and his involvement with and connections to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a political consultant for the campaign of 45th U.S. president Donald Trump. Since the 1970s, 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 addition to frequently serving as a campaign adviser, Stone was 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 (BMSK) 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 and trade associations, as well as foreign governments. By 1990, it was one of the leading lobbyists for American companies and foreign organizations. His personal style of achieving his clients' goals have been described as "a renowned infighter", "a seasoned practitioner of hard-edged politics", "a Republican strategist", and "a political fixer". Stone has referred to himself as "an agent provocateur". He has described his own political modus operandi as "Attack, attack, attacknever defend" and "Admit nothing, deny everything, and launch a counterattack."

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Notable quotes

“Hillary [Clinton] must be brought to justice — arrested, tried, and executed for murder.”
— Tweet (July 2014) cited in "Republicans debate: Kill Hillary, or merely jail her", The Washington Post (July 20, 2016) and "Trump’s long dalliance with violent rhetoric", Politico (August 10, 2016)
“I launched the idea of Donald J. Trump for President.”
— Stone's Rules (2018)
“Stone’s partner Lee Atwater recently told the Washington Post that [Stone] studies the every week, since it’s the literary staple of America’s swing voter. All this "expertise" amounts essentially to a respectable veneer for what Stone and his firm really offer: connections, hype, and hardball negative campaigning.”
— , "State-of-the-Art Sleazeball" (Dec. 9, 1985)
“Top Five Firms Receiving the Most Money from the Torturers' Lobby, 1991-1992... Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly) $3.3 [Fees, in Millions from] Nigeria, Kenya, [headed by ], Philippines.”
— Pamela Brogan, The Torturers' Lobby: How Human Rights-Abusing Nations Are Represented in Washington (1992) p. 7, Center for Public Integrity
“Stone is a thug who relishes personal insults, character assassination, and offensive Gestapo-like tactics that should be unequivocally dismissed by civil society, most especially those who might give him a platform from which to spew his hatred... He is the David Duke of politics. Those with whom he is affiliated should denounce him in no uncertain terms.”
— Brent Bozell [President, Media Research Center (MRC) praising CNN and MSNBC for banning Roger Stone], as quoted by Media Research Center; and by Adam C. Smith "Meet longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, an attention-craving political hit man" (May 4 2017/May 7 2017) Tampa Bay Times.
“I had a lawyer who was a very good lawyer, a tough lawyer, named . He introduced me, at one point, to Roger Stone. Roy thought Roger was a very tough guy. Roy knew some very tough guys, I will tell you that. But Roy always felt that Roger was not only tough, but a smart guy, and very political.”
— Donald Trump

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Overview

Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant, lobbyist, and convicted felon. Stone is most remembered for the Robert Mueller special council investigation, and his involvement with and connections to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a political consultant for the campaign of 45th U.S. president Donald Trump. Since the 1970s, 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 addition to frequently serving as a campaign adviser, Stone was 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 (BMSK) 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 and trade associations, as well as foreign governments. By 1990, it was one of the leading lobbyists for American companies and foreign organizations. His personal style of achieving his clients' goals have been described as "a renowned infighter", "a seasoned practitioner of hard-edged politics", "a Republican strategist", and "a political fixer". Stone has referred to himself as "an agent provocateur". He has described his own political modus operandi as "Attack, attack, attacknever defend" and "Admit nothing, deny everything, and launch a counterattack."

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant, lobbyist, and convicted felon. Stone is most remembered for the Robert Mueller special council investigation, and his involvement with and connections to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as a political consultant for the campaign of 45th U.S. president Donald Trump.

Notable quotes

“Hillary [Clinton] must be brought to justice — arrested, tried, and executed for murder.”
— Tweet (July 2014) cited in "Republicans debate: Kill Hillary, or merely jail her", The Washington Post (July 20, 2016) and "Trump’s long dalliance with violent rhetoric", Politico (August 10, 2016)
“I launched the idea of Donald J. Trump for President.”
— Stone's Rules (2018)
“Stone’s partner Lee Atwater recently told the Washington Post that [Stone] studies the every week, since it’s the literary staple of America’s swing voter. All this "expertise" amounts essentially to a respectable veneer for what Stone and his firm really offer: connections, hype, and hardball negative campaigning.”
— , "State-of-the-Art Sleazeball" (Dec. 9, 1985)
“Top Five Firms Receiving the Most Money from the Torturers' Lobby, 1991-1992... Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly) $3.3 [Fees, in Millions from] Nigeria, Kenya, [headed by ], Philippines.”
— Pamela Brogan, The Torturers' Lobby: How Human Rights-Abusing Nations Are Represented in Washington (1992) p. 7, Center for Public Integrity
“Stone is a thug who relishes personal insults, character assassination, and offensive Gestapo-like tactics that should be unequivocally dismissed by civil society, most especially those who might give him a platform from which to spew his hatred... He is the David Duke of politics. Those with whom he is affiliated should denounce him in no uncertain terms.”
— Brent Bozell [President, Media Research Center (MRC) praising CNN and MSNBC for banning Roger Stone], as quoted by Media Research Center; and by Adam C. Smith "Meet longtime Trump ally Roger Stone, an attention-craving political hit man" (May 4 2017/May 7 2017) Tampa Bay Times.
“I had a lawyer who was a very good lawyer, a tough lawyer, named . He introduced me, at one point, to Roger Stone. Roy thought Roger was a very tough guy. Roy knew some very tough guys, I will tell you that. But Roy always felt that Roger was not only tough, but a smart guy, and very political.”
— Donald Trump