GOP 'King of Dirty Tricks' on RNC's Plan to Stop Trump
What Roger Stone knows about Trump's strategy (he's winging it), and the efforts to take the candidate down
Depending on whom you talk to, Roger Stone, the veteran GOP strategist and consigliere to a long line of Republicans, most recently Donald Trump, could be one of the sleaziest operatives in American politics, or the most effective. He has played a role in no fewer than nine presidential campaigns, starting with Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election bid, where he cut his teeth "trafficking in the black arts," as he's put it. He's lobbied for casino operators, consulted with Ukrainian politicians, was instrumental in stopping the 2000 Florida recount in Miami by orchestrating an angry mob of Republicans in pinstriped suits, and helped destroy the career of Eliot Spitzer by exposing his relationship with a prostitute. He has been described, in consistently unflattering terms, as, among other things: the "king of dirty tricks," a "self-admitted hit man for the GOP," the "boastful black prince of Republican sleaze" and "a little rat" — albeit one with a closet full of bespoke suits who drives a sleek silver Jaguar, one of six he has owned.
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