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pnwmom

(108,976 posts)
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 02:50 AM Aug 2016

Slate: Longtime Trump advisor claims Khizr Khan is a terrorist double-agent.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/08/01/roger_stone_says_khizr_khan_is_a_muslim_brotherhood_saboteur.html

The Donald Trump campaign's response to bereaved Muslim American military father Khizr Khan's speech at the Democratic National Convention has been, shall we say, erratic. Trump suggested Khan's wife Ghazala Khan had appeared beside him but not spoken as the result of misogynistic Muslim oppression; she subsequently wrote in the Washington Post that Trump was wrong. Trump also asserted that Khizr Khan "has no right" to attack him for being ignorant of the Constitution; as many observers immediately pointed out, the Constitution itself grants Khan that right. Then Sunday night, at about the same time that Trump's running mate Mike Pence put out a respectful statement praising the Khans' son for his sacrifice, longtime Trump adviser and friend Roger Stone escalated things way, way further than all but the most cynical/drug-addled among us could have imagined:

Roger Stone @RogerJStoneJr
Mr. Khan more than an aggrieved father of a Muslim son- he's Muslim Brotherhood agent helping Hillary


http://linkis.com/shoebat.com/2016/07/amTCP

What The Media Is Not Telling You About The Muslim Who Attacked Donald Trump: He Is A Muslim Brotherhood Agent Who Wants To Advance Sharia Law And Bring Muslims Into The United States


SNIP

Roger Stone is not just some guy; in fact, he appears to have been Donald Trump's primary political adviser for decades. Hell, maybe Trump won't try to distance himself from Stone. Maybe this is the response to Khizr Khan that Trump has decided to go with. At this point, would that really be all that surprising?
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Slate: Longtime Trump advisor claims Khizr Khan is a terrorist double-agent. (Original Post) pnwmom Aug 2016 OP
uh huh.. keep up that shite, trumpids.. 'cause the stupid burns. Cha Aug 2016 #1
Trump vs. his supporters, in a race to the sub-sewer level... John Poet Aug 2016 #2
My gods that's nauseating Hekate Aug 2016 #3
Please proceed, Mr. Stone! BlueMTexpat Aug 2016 #4
Roger Stone is the creepiest creep in politics! Cooley Hurd Aug 2016 #5
In other words, an BlueMTexpat Aug 2016 #6
Clever double agent going on TV and exposing his secret double agent guile to millions of TV viewers Monk06 Aug 2016 #7
Trump and Co aren't going to let this die, are they? NurseJackie Aug 2016 #8
I figured they would try to dig up dirt on him treestar Aug 2016 #9
 

John Poet

(2,510 posts)
2. Trump vs. his supporters, in a race to the sub-sewer level...
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 03:29 AM
Aug 2016

It's as if they are in competition with each other...

BlueMTexpat

(15,366 posts)
4. Please proceed, Mr. Stone!
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 04:57 AM
Aug 2016

Keep that blatant hypocrisy, bigotry, racism and faux patriotism of Trump et al. up front and center for all to see.

More about Roger Stone who, like Trump, avoided military service: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone

And more, with good links to other stories: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/07/why-is-former-donald-trump-adviser-roger-stone-being-blacklisted-by-the-media/

From the second url:

In a 1986 profile of Stone, The Washington Post's Stephanie Mansfield described him as a "college dropout and Watergate dirty trickster." She chronicled some of his earliest campaign shenanigans.

In the fall of 1970, Stone moved to Washington to attend George Washington University. He became president of the District of Columbia Young Republicans. While his roommates were protesting the Vietnam War, Stone says, he was attending meetings of the Young Americans for Freedom. He also volunteered to work for Chuck Colson at the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). He became an assistant to Bart Porter, who helped manage the dirty tricks operations. Under the pseudonym "Jason Rainier," Stone went to Kentucky and recruited a political spy, paying him $5,800 for information on Democratic opponents. He also went to New Hampshire and donated money to the abortive presidential campaign of Rep. Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.) in the name of a left-wing group called the Young Socialist Alliance. Stone then drafted a letter to the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader describing the contribution, enclosing a receipt from the McCloskey campaign.


 

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)
5. Roger Stone is the creepiest creep in politics!
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 06:34 AM
Aug 2016

...Not to mention attacking Eliot Spitzer's 83 year old father in 2007:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone#Career.2C_2004-present

Career, 2004-present[edit]

Political and campaign activities


In 2007 Stone, a top adviser at the time to Joseph Bruno (the majority leader of the New York State Senate), was forced to resign by Bruno after allegations that Stone had threatened Bernard Spitzer, the then-83-year-old father of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer.[5][31] On August 6, 2007, an expletive laced message was left on the elder Spitzer's answering machine threatening to prosecute the elderly man if he did not implicate his son in wrongdoing. Bernard Spitzer hired a private detective agency that traced the call to Roger Stone's wife's phone. Roger Stone denied leaving the message, despite the fact that his voice was recognized, claiming he was at a movie that was later shown to have not been screened that night. 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.[32][33] Donald Trump is quoted as saying of the incident: "They caught Roger red-handed, lying. What he did was ridiculous and stupid."[34]

Stone has consistently denied the reports. Thereafter, however, he resigned from his position as a consultant to the New York State Senate Republican Campaign Committee, at Bruno's request.

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...and creating a 527 group against Secretary Clinton in 2008:

In January 2008, Stone founded Citizens United Not Timid, an anti-Hillary Clinton 527 group with an intentionally obscene acronym.

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Monk06

(7,675 posts)
7. Clever double agent going on TV and exposing his secret double agent guile to millions of TV viewers
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 09:46 AM
Aug 2016

Everything he does is carefully planned



treestar

(82,383 posts)
9. I figured they would try to dig up dirt on him
Mon Aug 1, 2016, 09:48 AM
Aug 2016

Looks like they could find none. What a stupid accusation.

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