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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you want to know about how deep Trump, Manafort and Stone go
this Slate article has all the info.
and would be something good to know when they all start lying.
The genesis of Donald Trumps relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthys heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the 70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit. (Cohn accused the Feds of using Gestapo-like tactics.) But Cohn and Trump became genuine pals, lunching at the Four Seasons and clubbing together at Studio 54. It was Roy Cohn who introduced Stone and Manafort to Trump.
During those disco years, Stone and Manafort were tethered together. They were both kids from Connecticut, attending colleges in Washington, though they couldnt have been more different. Stone loved attention and garnered it with theatrical flair. He was a bad boy, soi-disant. As a student at George Washington University, Stone moonlighted for the Nixon campaign and gravitated to Jeb Magruder, deputy director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President.
Dirty tricks came naturally to Stone. He assumed a pseudonym and made contributions on behalf of the Young Socialist Alliance to one of Nixons potential challengers. He hired spies to infiltrate the McGovern campaign. Stone wasnt shy about his handiwork. In fact, he wasnt shy about anything. He loved to sit for interviews and vamp. Stone is a bodybuilding fanatic who posed shirtless in the New Yorker. The photo captured his implanted hair, but not the tattoo of Richard Nixon on his back.
Manafort had a very different mentor. He studied under the future secretary of state, James A. Baker III, who wielded his knife with the discipline of a Marine and the polish of a Princetonian. It was a good fit for Manafort, who shared his mentors pragmatic conservatism and his thirst for politics. (His father spent six years as the mayor of New Britain, Connecticut, a Republican who flourished in Democratic terrain.) Baker, an avid collector of young talent, had managed Gerald Fords re-election campaign. Thats where he spotted Manafort and anointed him aide de camp. When Baker needed his own manager for his 1978 campaign to become attorney general of Texas, he tapped Manafort. The experience of whispering in Bakers ear left a lasting impression. Paul modeled himself after Baker, one of his friends told me.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/paul_manafort_isn_t_a_gop_retread_he_s_made_a_career_of_reinventing_tyrants.html
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If you want to know about how deep Trump, Manafort and Stone go (Original Post)
dixiegrrrrl
Mar 2017
OP
Demented elf sounds good! - complete with sores from polonium poisoning
womanofthehills
Mar 2017
#13
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)1. Thanks! K&R
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. Who is Roger Stone, Jr.? Buckley, Nixon, Reagan, Bush operative.
from Bush vs. Gore, the 'Arkansas Project,' the USA firings, and the Swiftboat Admiral
Jun-02-07 - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1029113
"Roger J. Stone, Jr. is a long-time Republican dirty-tricks operative who led the mob that shut down the Miami-Dade County recount and helped make George W. Bush president in 2000. He was also a campaign strategist during the presidential campaigns of Presidents Nixon, Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. He is the chairman of the Fort Hill Group, a Washington, D.C.-based public affairs firm...."
This is another case of illegal and stealth funding. "... During the 2004 presidential primary, Stone served as a behind-the-scenes consultant to black firebrand Al Sharpton's campaign to win the Democratic Party nomination, prompting speculation that Sharpton's campaign was actually a stealth operation to weaken the party's chances of winning in the general election."
Roger Stone, Jr., began his career volunteering for William F. Buckleys 1965 mayoral campaign, and has since had roles in the presidential campaigns of Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. A veteran Republican operative, Stone went to Florida to help the Bush campaign" during the 2000 recount, where he is creditied with organizing the "recount riot." Remember that gaggle of Washington D.C. Congressional aides, the posers pretending to be enraged Floridians, yeah--the guys who got their daily marching orders slipped under hotel doors in envelopes, that's the crew Stone puportedly directed via walkie-talkie from across the street.
Stone has ties to Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute and started his career in the College Republican National Committee during the Nixon era, when Blackwell "had turned it into a school for political dirty tricks. Both Stone and Blackwell have been closely connected since the 1970's with right-wing fundraiser Richard Viguerie."
.......more..................
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)4. Thanks for that history, and the link
All the pieces coming together....
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)9. With a tatoo of Nixon on his back? You can't make this stuff up!
This Republicans are flat out crazy.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)10. And that's way down his list of craziness.
womanofthehills
(8,761 posts)11. And here it is:
superpatriotman
(6,252 posts)3. Kick
This info needs to be disseminated. Thanks for posting
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)5. KNR
Marcuse
(7,506 posts)6. Background: Manafort, Stone & Lee Atwater. 1985
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)8. Stone looks like a demented elf.
After reading several bio articles about him, you just KNOW he was happy in the cocaine '80's.
womanofthehills
(8,761 posts)13. Demented elf sounds good! - complete with sores from polonium poisoning
Proof of Polonium poisoning
Lakerstan
(679 posts)7. Just posted the same article in the McCain thread
It explains why McCain might want these guys heads on a platter..
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)12. Just in case Trump or Spicer say "We don't know who Roger Stone is."
Wouldn't it be the ultimate irony
if this is how the inquiry began,
over an illegal campaign entity
with Crazy Roger the Trickster
giving up the evidence on Twitter
and starting the final downfall.