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struggle4progress

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Thu May 12, 2016, 01:06 PM May 2016

Trump's Trickster: The Dealings of Roger Stone

By Elizabeth Preza
May 11, 2016

Here are .. some .. things Roger Stone .. did last week: He "confirmed" that Ted Cruz's father was involved in the Kennedy assassination, called for Bernie Sanders to be shot for treason, and promised .. Alex Jones that "Trump will destroy Hillary" ...

“Look, I'm a brand name when it comes to dirty tricks,” Stone said ...

At age 19, Stone secured a position working for .. Richard Nixon. He joined the Committee for the Re-Election of the President ... Stone donated money to Paul McClosky, who was challenging Nixon for the Republican nomination. Signing the funds under the guise of the Young Socialist Alliance, Stone leaked a receipt of the check to the press, effectively labeling McClosky a secret socialist and derailing the challenger’s chance of landing the Republican nomination ...

Stone .. spearheaded the Brooks Brothers riot that thwarted Florida’s ballot recount ... “The idea we were putting out there was that this was a left-wing power grab by Gore, the same way Fidel Castro did it in Cuba. We were very explicitly drawing that analogy,” Stone recalled. “The idea was to shut it down, stop the recount here in Miami” ...


http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trumps-dirty-trickster-staggeringly-shady-dealings-political-operative-roger-stone

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