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Amerika wrote: »

Didn’t the Trump campaign fire Roger Stone over a year ago because Stone wanted to use the campaign for his own personal publicity?

Late last month, Trump appointed veteran GOP strategist and lobbyist Paul Manafort -- Stone's longtime friend and business partner, dating back to the Reagan years -- to lead his fight for delegates. Sources close to all three men say Stone played a role in that appointment, which gave him a new lifeline into Trump's campaign.
Stone also heads "The Committee to Restore America's Greatness," a pro-Trump super PAC that has redirected its mission "to help stop the Republican establishment from stealing the Presidential nomination" from Trump . . .
While Trump and his campaign can claim no connection with Stone -- after all, he left the campaign last August -- those who know the two men say that they speak regularly, and that Stone is an influential voice in Trump's ear.
"Roger is never too far away from Trump ... He's always talking to Donald," a source close to both men said. "Roger and Trump always wind up finding their way back to each other," said another. . . .
So Stone left in August, less than two months after the campaign launched. But he never really was gone. He was not ousted, as was originally reported, nor was he forced into exile, as some journalists would claim. He was always there, on the sidelines, talking to Trump on a regular basis, planting stories in the press, influencing things where he could, several sources said. . . .

Stone Helped Place Paul Manafort In A Top Trump Campaign Role. Stone introduced and recommended Paul Manafort, a top Trump campaign aide, to the business magnate. On April 6, Stone said of their relationship: “My partner Paul Manafort, partner of 15 years, a friend of mine of almost 50 years, someone I’ve known since childhood, is without any question the single best convention organizer and strategist in the country.” Stone was a partner with Manafort in the lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly. [Media Matters, 4/14/16; Rolling Stone, 4/18/16]

Stone Has Helped Trump With Campaign Strategy After Leaving Campaign Role. Stone’s book The Clintons’ War on Women has served as a playbook for Trump’s attacks on Hillary Clinton purportedly being an "enabler" of "one of the great woman abusers of all time," President Bill Clinton. Stone also helped with other campaign strategies, including recommending Paul Manafort and telling Trump to appear on the program of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. [Media Matters, 4/14/16]

Stone Now Heads The Pro-Trump Super PAC Committee To Restore America’s Greatness. Stone formed the group in December with the goal of electing Trump because he “can save this country.” [Media Matters, 4/20/16; Reuters, 12/18/15]

Stone Said He And Trump “Talk On A Semi-Regular Basis.” [Media Matters, 4/14/16]

Stone Pledged To Release The Hotels And Hotel Room Numbers Of Anti-Trump Delegates. Stone claimed that Republicans were trying to “steal” the nomination from Donald Trump at the convention and set up an organization called Stop The Steal to prevent that from happening. During an April 4 interview, Stone said, “We will disclose the hotels and the room numbers of those delegates who are directly involved in the steal.” Stone’s remarks sparked harsh criticism and rebukes from Republicans, who labeled his remarks dangerous and a call to incite violence. [Media Matters, 4/5/16, 4/6/16; The Washington Post, 4/8/16]

Stone Believes The Conspiracy Theory That Sen. Ted Cruz’s Father Was Tied To The JFK Assassination. After Trump linked Ted Cruz’s father to John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, Stone tweeted: “100% correct about Ted Cruz father's connection to Lee Harvey Oswald! Eat it Lyin' @tedcruz.” Stone made similar remarks in the media tying Cruz’s father to the assassin. [Twitter.com, 5/3/16; Mediaite, 5/4/16]

Stone: JFK Jr. “Was Murdered By The Clintons Because He Was In The Way.” Stone is writing a book based on his conspiracy theory that the Clintons murdered John F. Kennedy Jr., who died in a 1999 plane crash accident. Stone stated on a radio program: “I have coming up next year a book which I make the case that John F. Kennedy Jr. was murdered. And he was murdered by the Clintons because he was in the way. Now I have extraordinary new evidence that nobody else has seen.” [Media Matters, 4/12/16]

Stone Is A Regular Guest On The Program Of Leading 9/11 Conspiracy Theorist Alex Jones. Stone has frequently appeared on The Alex Jones Show and allied with Jones to tout Trump’s candidacy and promote pro-Trump rallies at the Republican National Convention. Jones is a conspiracy theorist who believes the government was behind the 9/11 attacks and other national tragedies including the Oklahoma City bombing and shootings in Aurora, CO, and Newtown, CT. [Media Matters, 5/3/16]

Stone Co-Authored Anti-Clinton Book With A Fringe Conspiracy Theorist With A History Of Racist And Sexist Writings. Stone co-authored the book The Clintons' War on Women with Robert Morrow. Morrow is a fringe conspiracy theorist who has wished death on Hillary Clinton and been visited by the Secret Service; posted bizarre sexual writings about the former secretary of state; called Chelsea Clinton a "slut" and imagined how she would "have sex one day" with Bill Clinton; complained about "pro-****** JUDICIAL ACTIVISM"; and claimed the Bush and Clinton families were involved in murders and drug-running. He revels in using the word “******” on his Twitter account. [Media Matters, 9/3/15; Twitter.com, 5/3/16, 5/3/16, 5/3/16]

PolitiFact: Stone Voting Fraud Claim Is “Pants On Fire” False. PolitiFact investigated Stone and his Committee to Restore America's Greatness after they “said there were over 600 reports of Texas votes for Trump virtually all getting tallied for Rubio.” The investigative site concluded “there’s no there there--not even a whisper of one.” [PolitiFact, 4/11/16]

Radio Host Mark Levin: “Roger Stone Is A Thug. He’s A Sleazeball. … And He’s A Hatchet Man For Donald Trump.” [Breitbart.com, 4/8/16]

Glenn Beck: “Roger Stone Is One Of The Worst People In The World.” Beck criticized Stone after he wrote a piece claiming Beck was paid off for his endorsement of Cruz. Beck then read some of Stone’s racist tweets on air. [Premiere Radio Networks, The Glenn Beck Program, 4/15/16]

Numerous Right-Wing Commentators Criticized Stone And His Hotel Room Plan As Inciting Violence. Conservative pundits harshly attacked Stone after he pledged to disclose the hotels and hotel room numbers of anti-Trump delegates at the Republican National Convention. They called Stone's plan an effort to "intimidate delegates" and "another example of how Trump relies on thug tactics and violence," said he was "willfully inciting violence," and suggested it could lead to someone getting shot. [Media Matters, 4/6/16]

Amerika wrote: »

An interesting read from The Hill which shows how the Clinton campaign tricked Kahn into smearing Trump.

Trump has a history of lashing out after being attacked, but to ridicule a Gold Star Mother is out-of-bounds, said the new national commander of the near 1.7 million-member Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and its Auxiliary. “Election year or not, the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member for exercising his or her right of speech or expression,” said Brian Duffy, of Louisville, Ky., who was elected July 27 to lead the nation’s oldest and largest major war veterans organization. “There are certain sacrosanct subjects that no amount of wordsmithing can repair once crossed,” he said. “Giving one’s life to nation is the greatest sacrifice, followed closely by all Gold Star families, who have a right to make their voices heard.”

TheDoctor wrote: »

What is a Gold Star family?

KingBrian2 wrote: »

I'm not. The Democrats are not in favour in curtailing illegal immigration. Their policies get it, their policies do not advance immigration control. They openly admit the migration system is not up to scratch and they proposed the Free Trade Zone with Mexico. Trump is campaigning against that and a lot of special interests are against fundamentally reshaping America's relations with different countries. As I cited earlier Mexico is corrupt.

KingBrian2 wrote: »

I have not being lying at all. I have been issuing a catalogue of relevant concerns that show the Democrats have been very poor on curtailing the number of migrants entering the US. What have I said. I said that Jihadists have entered the US and other European countries very easily during the Democratic administration and that this will continue citing as examples that the Clintons policies is to allow them to come in further creating the atmosphere of hostility. Bring too many people into a country and your bound to get the rise of xenophobia.