"Roger's a good guy," Trump said. Stone said that Roy Cohn helped him arrange for independent candidate John B. Anderson to get the nomination of the Liberal Party of New York, a move that would help split the opposition to Reagan in the state. Stone said that the campaign "is not a hoax, a prank or a publicity stunt. Matthew Dunlap, the Maine secretary of state, said the "vague rumor has absolutely no validity. As I detail in " Cucks, Cuckolding and Campaign. And I would note that Mr. Stone is a man who has 50 years of dirty tricks behind him. He had to drop out of Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign when a tabloid published an article asserting that he and his. 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Roger Stone, No. What he did was ridiculous and stupid. Stone ultimately lost the battle within the GOP on the issue. Roger Stone With Wife Nydia Stone Roger Stone is married to Nydia Bertran, and they then got married in 1992. Stone was sentenced 40 months in prison. Roger Jason Stone (born Roger Joseph Stone Jr.; August 27, 1952) is an American conservative political consultant and lobbyist. Senator Dole, and his wife, Elizabeth (herself a former Senator and Cabinet member) recently talked with correspondent Rita Braver about his storied career. [83], In February 2010, Stone became campaign manager for Kristin Davis, a madam linked with the Eliot Spitzer prostitution scandal, in her bid for the Libertarian Party nomination for governor of New York in the 2010 election. As a news photographer, she worked on a number of political campaigns, including President Ronald Reagans campaign for the 1980 election. An unpaid consultant to Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole was forced to resign Thursday after two supermarket tabloids reported he and his wife had advertised for group sex.. Roger had denied the allegations that they were involved in publishing the advertisements in a two-page report that pointed towards "an acrimonious divorce" five years ago and put the blame on an unnamed "sick, disgruntled" person, who had been placing steamy and suggestive photos of him and his wife on mate-swapping websites for several years. Stone acknowledged contacts with the mysterious persona and made public excerpts of the messages. It's performance art, sometimes for its own sake. [260] Labash described him as "a dandy by disposition who boasts of having not bought off-the-rack since he was 17", who has "taught reporters how to achieve perfect double-dimples underneath their tie knots". He planned the Trump campaign, and he is Trump's henchman and dirty trickster. He has worked on the campaigns of Republican politicians such as Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Jack Kemp, Bob Dole, and Donald Trump since the 1970s. [161], In May 2018, Stone's social media consultant, Jason Sullivan, was issued grand jury subpoenas from the Special Counsel investigation. Her father served as a Cuban diplomat before Fidel Castro came to power. Stone) was a well driller[43] and sometime chief of the Vista volunteer Fire Department. Nydia Stone and #rogerstone anticipating Broadway show Hamilton! "[33] Within Trump's circle, Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, Trump aide Larry Kudlow, and Republican congressman Matt Gaetz urged Trump to grant clemency to Stone,[33] as did Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. On November 15, 2019, Roger Stone was found guilty of obstruction of proceedings, lying to congress and witness intimidation at the U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. On February 11, as the Department of Justice revealed that the sentence recommendation for Stone would be reduced, two of the prosecutors in the case withdrew their service. President. Like her husband, Nydia Stone has also been involved in American right-wing politics for a long time. The. Former US Senator Elizabeth Dole rests her head on her husband's casket as former Senator Bob Dole lies in state at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C., Dec. 9, 2021. Attorneys who were prosecuting the case Jonathan Kravis, Aaron Zelinsky, Adam Jed and Michael Marando withdrew from the case, and Kravis resigned from the U.S. Attorney's Office altogether. [127] According to the media release issued by the Ontario Party, Stone had previously joined party leader Derek Sloan to address the party's candidate convention and criticized Ontario Premier Doug Ford's approach to conservatism. A post shared by Nydia Bertran Stone (@nydia_b_stone) on Oct 19, 2018 at 10:11am PDT. . [114] He suggested that the Saudi government or members of the Saudi royal family directly supported or financed the September 11 attacks, tweeting that "Instead of meeting with the Saudis @realDonaldTrump should be demanding they pay for the attack on America on 9/11 which they financed. Stone also made personal attacks on Democratic committee members Adam Schiff, Eric Swalwell and Dennis Heck. Stone dislikes single-vent jackets (describing them as the sign of a "heathen"), saying he owns 100 silver-colored neckties and has 100 suits in storage. This means that they have been forced into the situation of giving up their luxurious home in Fort Lauderdale, which is estimated to have cost the couple around $9,500 per month. [28][29][30], 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. [208], On February 20, 2020, Judge Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months in federal prison and a $20,000 fine for his crimes, but allowed him to delay the start of his sentence pending resolution of Stone's post-trial motions. You backstab your friends-run your mouth my lawyers are dying Rip you to shreds." Stone was accused on an episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews on August 22, 2007, of being the voice on an expletive-laden voicemail threatening Bernard Spitzer, father of Eliot, with subpoenas. Associated With. [18][19][20][21][22] He has described his own political modus operandi as "Attack, attack, attack never defend" and "Admit nothing, deny everything, and launch a counterattack. The exchange between Stone and this Jerusalem-based contact appears in FBI documents made public". In 1992, Nydia Bertan wed Roger Stone in Las Vegas. He is charged with lying about emails from the Hillary Clinton campaign that were hacked by Russia. 'The National Enquirer' had reported that Roger, 44 at the time, and Nydia, 48, had placed racy advertisements and pictures in the September issue of 'Local Swing Fever' magazine, and on a website, to seek sexual partners for both of them. In the weeks afterwards he pressured the Trump administration for a pardon of all Members of Congress who supported overturning the 2020 election, including Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Jim Jordan, and Matt Gaetz. Name as rendered in the 2019 federal indictment. He worked for Senator Bob Dole (and was fired, after Jack Anderson reported he'd . Roger Stone married Anne Elizabeth Wesche in 1974. When he was advising Bob . Roger Stone, a former adviser for President Trump, is a political . A stoolie. However, Dole and Holden separated in 1972, and Phyllis passed away . [128][129][130] After his arraignment at the Miami federal courthouse in January 2019, they joined him on its steps holding signs that said, "Roger Stone is innocent," and promoting right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his InfoWars website. Stone et al", "Roger Stone Rides Donald Trump's Well-Tailored Coattails", "Trump's No. [25] Stone first suggested Trump run for President in early 1998 while Stone was Trump's casino business lobbyist in Washington. [106] In a June 2016 appearance on On Point, Stone told Tom Ashbrook: "I would have to admit that calling Roland Martin a 'fat negro' was a two-martini tweet, and I regret that. [33] Stone's commutation followed a number of occasions in which Trump granted executive clemency to his supporters or political allies,[33][221] or following personal appeals or campaigns in conservative media,[199] as in the cases of Rod Blagojevich, Michael Milken, Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, and Clint Lorance, as well as Bernard Kerik. [187] Around midnight, Trump characterized the sentencing recommendation as "horrible and very unfair situation" in tweeted, "Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice! Roger Stone is a married man and the name of his first wife is Anne Elizabeth Wesche. In 1978, Stone co-founded the National Conservative Political Action Committee. [147] The Committee Vice Chair, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA), called on Stone to testify before the committee, saying he "hit the trifecta" of shady dealings with Russia. [72], Later that year, according to Stone and the film Recount, Stone was recruited by James Baker to assist with public relations during the Florida recount. [91], In February 2012, Stone said that he had changed his party affiliation from the Republican Party to the Libertarian Party. Previously, between 1974 and 1990, Stone had been married to Anne Wesche. [136][137] In his opening statement before the United States House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on September 26, 2017, Stone reiterated this claim: "Note that my tweet of August 21, 2016, makes no mention, whatsoever, of Mr. Podesta's email, but does accurately predict that the Podesta brothers' business activities in Russia would come under public scrutiny. "I am so ready. [185] On November 25, a decision denying a defense motion for acquittal was released. As he embarked on his political career his wife padded his suits to disguise his injured arm and shoulder and arranged for his food to arrive ready cut at public functions. [23], Stone, the "keeper of the Nixon flame",[55] was an adviser to the former President in his post-presidential years, serving as "Nixon's man in Washington". As such, Stone did not believe he had a conflict of interest in supporting both candidates. He was forced to resign following a National Enquirer story that accused Stone of posting ads looking for sexual partners to join him and Nydia in the bedroom. Nydia's father served as a Cuban diplomat before Fidel Castro came to power. "[107] Cruz denied the allegations (calling it "garbage" and a "tabloid smear") and accused the Trump campaign, and Stone specifically, of planting the story as part of an orchestrated smear campaign against him. Bob Dole met his wife in 1972. Don't forget that Bill Clinton was doing more than talking to Dick Morris. Roger was previously married to first wife, Anne Wesche. [23], In the 2002 New York gubernatorial election, Stone was associated with the campaign of businessman Thomas Golisano for governor of New York State. Nydia was born on May 8, 1946 in Cuba. . In 2007, Stone indicated he was a staunch conservative but with libertarian leanings. [176] Later that day, Stone filed an apology with the court. [50], After Nixon won the 1972 presidential election, Stone worked for the administration in the Office of Economic Opportunity. Would love your thoughts, please comment. You think that's mean? In 1996, he was the Republican Party's candidate for the presidency. They divorced in 1990.[69]. He and Nydia became husband and wife in Las Vegas in 1992. [96] Despite this, Stone still supported Trump. When Stone was asked by a local reporter about the Proud Boys' claim that he had been initiated as a member of the group, he responded by calling the reporter a member of the Communist Party. In 1992, Roger married Nydia Bertran. [3] Previously, he was married to Ann Stone from 1974 to 1990. . Roger Stone, who was arrested on 25 January 2019 pleaded not guilty the seven counts he is facing. [221] Exceptions were Republican Senators Mitt Romney, who termed the commutation "unprecedented, historic corruption," and Pat Toomey, who called the commutation a "mistake" due in part to the severity of the crimes of which Stone was convicted. It was my first political trick. [117], On September 10, 2020, Stone told InfoWars' Alex Jones that, if Trump appeared to lose the 2020 United States presidential election, he should consider declaring martial law via the Insurrection Act and confiscate ballots, particularly in Nevada, where they were "completely corrupted" and so "should be seized by federal marshals. After his divorce from Ann in the '90s, he met Nydia Bertran during one of Ronald Reagan's presidential campaigns. [33][34][35] He was sentenced to 40months in prison. Roger Stone's net worth is $5 million, . [105] In February 2016, CNN said that it would no longer invite Stone to appear on its network, and MSNBC followed suit, confirming in April 2016, that Stone had also been banned from that network. The Real Housewives of Atlanta The Bachelor Sister Wives 90 Day Fiance Wife Swap The Amazing Race Australia Married at First Sight The Real Housewives of Dallas My 600-lb Life . [127], In early 2018, ahead of an appearance at the annual Republican Dorchester Conference in Salem, Oregon, Stone sought out the Proud Boys, a radical right group known for street violence, to act as his "security" for the event; photos posted online showed Stone drinking with several Proud Boys. "[203] CNN reported that other prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office for D.C. had discussed resigning over the matter. "[47] Stone wears a diamond pinky ring in the shape of a horseshoe and in 2007 he had Richard Nixon's face tattooed on his back. 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