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Roger J. Stone, Jr. (born 1952 in Norwalk, Connecticut) is an American political consultant, lobbyist and strategist, noted for his use of opposition research, usually for candidates of the Republican Party.

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Mr. Cohen's statement is untrue.

– Roger Stone

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

> Washington( CNN) In one of the most anticipated congressional hearings in -- at least -- a generation, Michael Cohens spent better than six hours answering questions from members of Committee Democrats about the decade he spent working for Donald Trump.Much of the hearing was simply partisan jousting. Committee Democrats sought to tease out details of Trump's role in hush money payments made to two women alleging affairs with Ivanka Trump in the mid-2000s, and how long conversations about the Trump Tower Moscow project continued into the 2016 general election campaign. Republicans sought to remind people that Cohen was a liar, having already pleaded guilty to lying to Congress, and was likely to write a book about his experiences. ( I'm still not sure what that second point has to do with anything, but that's what they focused on !) Amid all of the yelling and partisanship, however, we did learn some things from Cohen. And he confirmed some other things. My list is below.1. Cohen said Ivanka Trump spoke with Roger Stone about WikiLeaksSaid Cohen in Ivanka Trump opening statement :.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 7 months ago Top News

Attack, attack, attack -- never defend, admit nothing, deny everything, launch counterattack.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

I don't offer any rationalization or excuse or justification. This is just a stupid lack of judgment.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 7 months ago Politics

Your honor, I can only beseech you to give me a second chance, forgive me the trespass. I'm hurtfully sorry.

– Roger Stone

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

I erased all of the images of your honor because I did not want to make the same mistake twice, you had a choice?

– Roger Stone

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

I abused the order, i am kicking myself over my own stupidity.

– Roger Stone

Found on Reuters 7 months ago Top News

It was an egregious mistake. I obviously wish I could do it over again, but I cannot, i recognize I let the court down, I let you down, I let myself down. ... It was a momentary lapse in judgment.

– Roger Stone

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Politics

This was a screwup, i admit it.

– Roger Stone

Found on FOX News 7 months ago Politics

An example of how limited and narrow his public presence is, is that Kim Kardashian has 59.5 million followers on Twitter. By contrast, Roger Stone has no Twitter account at all and, thus has no Twitter followers, on Instagram, Kim Kardashian has 126 million followers. Roger Stone's Instagram following amounts to 39 thousand subscribers.

– Roger Stone

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

This was a show of force, this was something you would expect from Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. It was chilling.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I'd also testify honestly about any other matter, including any communications with the president, it's true that we spoke on the phone, but those communications are political in nature, they're benign, and there is certainly no conspiracy with Russia.

– Roger Stone

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Politics

If there's wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that I know about -- which I know of none -- but, if there is, I would certainly testify honestly, i would also testify honestly about any other matter, including any communications with the President. It's true that we spoke on the phone, but those communications are political in nature.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

I have never discussed a pardon, the only person that I have advocated a pardon for, as we have discussed previously, is a posthumous pardon for Marcus Garvey.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

Uh, you know, Thats a question Ill have to determine after my attorneys have some discussion, if theres wrongdoing by other people in the campaign that I know about, which I know of none, but if there is, Iwould certainly testify honestly. Id also testify honestly about any other matter, including any communications with the president.

– Roger Stone

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Politics

Theres a war on alternative media, theres a war where theyre trying to criminalize political expression. Theres a war where theyre trying to criminalize free speech.

– Roger Stone

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Politics

There is no circumstance whatsoever under which I will bear false witness against the President, nor will I make up lies to ease the pressure on Roger Stone.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

Im in for the fight of my life but I will not quit. I will not fold. I will not bend. I will not bear false witness against the president, i intend to fight because this indictment is fabricated. This indictment is thin as can be.

– Roger Stone

Found on FOX News 8 months ago Politics

After a two-year inquisition, the charges today related in no way to Russian collusion, WikiLeaks coordination or any other illegal act in connection with the 2016 campaign.

– Roger Stone

Found on Reuters 8 months ago Top News

After a two-year inquisition, the charges today relate in no way to Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration or any other illegal act in connection with the 2016 campaign.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

And if you turned over anything to the FBI you're a fool.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

There was no need to have 29 FBI agents with assault weapons and side arms and hand grenades and a battering ram to smash in my front door, they could simply have called my attorney and I would have surrendered voluntarily.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

First of all, I always said that there could be some process crime.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Top News

None of that disturbs me other than I have far less money than people think I have, that's the price of being well-dressed, I guess.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I have found, as I'm sure you can see, if people have a choice of giving you $ 25 or giving you $ 25 and getting a signed paperweight in return, they'd rather have something they can hold in their hand, it's marketing.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

When I go in public, you guys have done a great job of driving my name ID, they always break down about 50-50. Half the people want to take a selfie and shake my hand, the other half want to tell me to go f --- Roger Stone. It is still better to be infamous than never be famous at all.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

There's nothing there that suggests collaboration or collusion, so now we're down to the question of perjury.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 8 months ago Politics

I don't think any reasonable attorney who looks at The Washington Post would conclude that I committed perjury, which requires intent and materiality.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Because I am clearly under investigation now and no attorney in their right mind would allow you to put yourself in that jeopardy, because this is not about Russian collusion, it's about the parsing of words. It's about process crimes and perjury traps, and I decline to participate.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

The Mob takes the Fifth. If Roger Stone're innocent, why are Roger Stone taking the Fifth Amendment ? roger Stone was surprised by the President's Tweet yesterday.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

Access Hollywood is pure, unadulterated, unmitigated BS, and why would I ask him to contact Julian Assange, who even today he says he does not know ? Neither logical or true.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 10 months ago Top News

I never discussed any of this with President Donald Trump, it's one of the questions that Robert Mueller wants the President to answer -- one of the written questions. I'm highly confident that Robert Mueller answer will be that Robert Mueller knew nothing about it. We just never discussed it.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

I never visited Trump Tower in New York after August of 2015 until the President-elect asked me to visit him after the election.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

Choke in your own vomit.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

Our texts are the late night bickering of two grumpy political veterans, who have known each other for years. They are friendly as well as nasty, ribald, vicious, inconsistent humorous and vile.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

Our text and email messages have to been seen in their totality to see the( sic) is no serious effort to intimidate or pressure Randy Credico to do anything, other than fess up to the truth.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I actually have communicated with Assange, i believe the next tranche of his documents pertain to the Clinton Foundation but there's no telling what the October surprise may be.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

My testimony before House Intelligence Committee was entirely truthful and there is no credible evidence to the contrary, from the beginning, I wanted to protect the identity of Randy Credico, because I knew that Randy Credico support for Julian Assange and the journalistic independence of WikiLeaks would not be popular in the progressive left circles where Randy Credico made a living.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I did tell Credico I had an additional source who also told me the material was coming and that the revelations would address the Clinton Foundation.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

From the beginning, I wanted to protect the identity of Randy Credico, because I knew that Randy Credico support for Julian Assange and the journalistic independence of WikiLeaks would not be popular in the progressive left circles where Randy Credico made a living.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 11 months ago Politics

I've been completely honest about this. I described it various ways on the record in a speech to a large number of Trump supporters, i described it as a back channel. I think in another interview I may have said intermediary. In the third interview I said a mutual friend. They are all true. They're all consistent and what I learned from this person, and don't blame me if I had better sources than the mainstream media was very simply this, that Julian Assange had a substantial of information on Hillary Clinton and Julian Assange would drop it in October.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Adam Schiff claimed that I knew in advance about the scope and timing and content of Wikileaks disclosures in October of last year, you know, WikiLeaks themselves, Randy, tweeted on July 31 of last year that they had enormous amount of material and Hillary Clinton and they would release it in October. So I'm not sure what the big state secret was here.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Well, first of all, I don't want to intimate in anyway that I control or have influence with Julian Assange because I do not, we have a mutual friend, somebody we both trust and therefore I am a recipient of pretty good information.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

It is entirely likely that Robert MuellerDavis is squeezing some of my current or former associates to tell lies about me, by the same token, Robert MuellerDavis may seek to bring some bogus charge against me to induce me to testify against the President. I am not saying I have any negative information against the President - I'm saying I won't be pressured into making s --- up. This I will not do.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Where, by the way, is their proof of Russian collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration or advance knowledge of the acquisition and publication of( Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John) Podesta's email ? That would be none, perhaps they are confusing me with the character I sometimes play, Roger Stone.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

By night, I'm trafficking in the black arts. Nixon's people were obsessed with intelligence.

– Roger Stone

Found on CNN 1 year ago Top News

Read MoreStone knows nothing about Russian Collusion, WikiLeaks collaboration or any other impropriety related to the 2016 election which I thought was the subject of this probe.

– Roger Stone