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Roger Stone says he is heading to Nevada this week to call for a presidential pardon.Tay Wiles Sept. 13, 2017
Roger Stone, an on-and-off adviser of President Donald Trump, says he will be in Las Vegas this Friday to demand a pardon for rancher Cliven Bundy and his co-defendants, who are currently awaiting federal trial. Stone also made public appearances in July in Nevada to urge Trump to intervene in the Bundy case, which is centered on the 2014 standoff between armed Bundy supporters and federal employees attempting to round up the ranchers illegally grazing cattle.
The case has become a symbol of longstanding disagreements in Western states over how public lands should be managed, as well as a rallying point for the Patriot movement, a loose network of militias and far-right individuals and groups across the country, including in the rural West. The arrival of Stone, a controversial political operative, in Las Vegas this week, is another strange turn to a series of cases that have vexed federal prosecutors from Oregon to Nevada.
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Stone is in many ways an odd bedfellow for the Bundys, since he is a longtime Washington insider with no apparent connection to ranching or public-lands issues. The Florida resident is a mens fashion editor of The Daily Caller, a conservative political website, who embraces his reputation as a trickster and who pushes the boundaries of ethical behavior farther than most. In contrast to Bundys reputation among his supporters as upstanding and salt-of-the-earth, Stone sees morality as a synonym for weakness, New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin says in the documentary Get Me Roger Stone released earlier this year.
Stone is nothing if not prolific: He consulted for presidents George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and Richard Nixon whose face Stone has tattooed on his back. Stone has also consulted for foreign dictatorships in Zaire and the Philippines. Stones former lobbying firm created the modern sleazeball lobbyist, Toobin says. In the 1980s, Stones firm was among the first to help elect a political candidate, only to then lobby them. He readily takes credit for pioneering political attack advertising, now a stress-inducing mainstay of electoral politics. He also co-founded a political action committee, or PAC, which would eventually transform American politics by infusing massive donations into the process.
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Why is a Trump operative so interested in Cliven Bundy? (Original Post)
DonViejo
Sep 2017
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Good question, as to the issue it makes perfect sense to be Stone and want to pardon
Eliot Rosewater
Sep 2017
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,117 posts)1. Good question, as to the issue it makes perfect sense to be Stone and want to pardon
a criminal and traitor who attacked America, right.
But why go out on a limb for such a small time traitor?
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)2. The Bundys are part of the same far right cesspool as Arpaio....
sovereigns/constitutionalists
patriot movement, birchers
KKK/nativists/fascists
militias
and other assorted loons.
Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)3. WTF....
So now there are folks pressuring the executive branch to put their support behind unlawful militia types who, whenever they feel laws don't apply to them, are emboldened to take up arms against federal officials???
Eugene
(61,938 posts)4. W-T-F! Sad state of affairs that Stone can do this so openly.