Roger Stone: Trump Told Me He'd Run on New Years Day 2013

[MelissaB]

Roger Stone: Trump Told Me He’d Run on New Year’s Day 2013

The longtime political consultant and Trump confidante also says the new president is more like Richard Nixon than Ronald Reagan.


Donald Trump made a New Year's resolution in 2013 that would end up capsizing American politics and lead to one of the most stunning upsets in electoral history, according to a new book by veteran political consultant Roger Stone.

"He told me on New Year's Day 2013 that he was running for president in 2016," Stone writes in "The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution."

When Stone pointed out to Trump that the media would be deeply skeptical that he would actually launch a campaign based on his previous flirtations with public office, Trump replied, "That will disappear when I announce."

And the rest is history.

More: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-02-03/roger-stone-trump-told-me-hed-run-on-new-years-day-2013

[malaise]

1. Oops - he'd better delete his latest tweet

[WhiteTara]

6. So, what did Twitler tweet this time?

[oberliner]

8. He's got five tweets in the last hour about the Russia stuff

Like this one:

Link to tweet

[dchill]

18. Backwards again, Trumpsky! They DIDN'T know...

But YOU DID.

[malaise]

10. Was going to post this link

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210247985

[PA Democrat]

2. RUH ROH

That's the problem with lies. Even if Trump manages to keep his story straight (and he usually doesn't) you can't always count on everyone else.

[woodsprite]

17. And wasn't it around 2013 that the Russians' started their manipulation. n/t

[Raster]

23. Yes, which also coincided with the Miss Universe Pageant in...

...Moscow, Russia.

[TEB]

3. Traitors

[dchill]

4. Stories that were never straight are really hard...

to keep straight.

[poboy2]

9. I like this play.

Might I suggest - A crooked story is hard to keep straight.

[Dave Starsky]

12. The truth is always easier to remember.

[cos dem]

5. He is more like Nixon than Reagan.

He's also more like Benedict Arnold than Nixon.

[DFW]

16. Not only that

He is more like Caligula or Commodus than Marcus Aurelius

And--he is more like the snake oil salesman in a traveling circus than a president of a world power. I think he knows it, too, deep down. That's how come the deep-seated inferiority complex and the India Paper-thin skin. As for the first comparison, he wouldn't have the slightest idea who Caligula, Commodus and Marcus Aurelius were, so he wouldn't have an opinion on that one one way or the other.

[hatrack]

20. Unlike Shitstain, Arnold was a brave and capable officer (before he flipped) . . . .

He came within a hairsbreadth of capturing Quebec in 1775, and was far more responsible for victory at Saratoga than Horatio Gates ever was.

[bitterross]

7. I am really starting to believe it was Russian plot all along.

I can't escape what becomes clearer all the time.

[poboy2]

21. The realization, once accepted, demands extraordinary action

for justice and the wrong to be corrected or healed.
In other words, if one is convinced of it, what necessarily must follow if we believe and wish to preserve democracy and the republic -is unprecedented. "Let justice be done though the heavens fall".

[dchill]

22. Of course it was. They've been grooming and compromising...

him for DECADES.

[MelissaB]

11. ***MAGA Trademarked in 2012.***

Link to tweet

[MelissaB]

14. Posted as thread here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100210248167

[Phoenix61]

24. Now isn't that interesting. nt

[Cognitive_Resonance]

13. Done deal after 2011 White House Correspondents Association Dinner humiliation. nt

[oasis]

15. Lies of the Orange Blob exposed. nt

[hatrack]

19. Looks like Plague Rat #1 is jumping ship . . .