Within the American political ecosystem there are many different characters and archetypes. Near the bottom of the the food chain are the Political Consultants – those amoral political hacks, possessed of canny intelligence and broken values, who dispense their principle-free, soulless, often bigoted, but ultimately practical advice to political candidates of any stripe who have the money to pay for their mercenary services.

Below the Political Consultants is 100 feet of shit.

Then there is Roger Stone.

Stone is the zombie vampire of politics. He tends to turn up in the middle of the worst episodes of questionable, sexist, racist, bigoted political shenanigans.

He began his career as a dirty-trickster in the Nixon White House, and bounced around working with Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, George Bush and others. Stone had a hand in the infamous Willie Horton ad in the 1988 election.

Perhaps Stone’s most infamous moment was when he formed the delicately named anti-Hillary Clinton 527 group, Citizen’s United Not Timid.

C.U.N.T. Get it?

Yes. He is that kind of a guy. And if zombies are animated by their lust for brains, Stone’s animating principle is his hatred for Hillary Clinton.

And as it turns out, Roger Stone is a good friend and political confidant of Donald Trump. Kind of a match made in political hell. Their relationship actually goes back to 1979 when their were introduced through Trump’s reptilian lawyer and mentor Roy Cohn – who made his name working with the infamous Joe McCarthy. Stone was on the Trump campaign up until August when he and the boss had a little falling out over who should get the credit for Trump’s success. Or so they say.

Last week, Stone had an epic meltdown on the twitter where he lashed out at his critics in the most obscene, explicative-filled way possible. In the course of his tirade he let slip a couple of interesting tidbits about his role on the Trump campaign.

“You stupid, stupid b*tch. Never denied perfectly legal back channel to Assange who indeed had the goods on #CrookedHillary”

So just to be clear, Stone is saying that in the midst of the campaign he was conspiring with Wikileaks. Wikileaks, of course, was in league with hackers working for the Russian government under the direction of Vladimir Putin to interfere with the election on behalf of Stone’s candidate. He actually let this slip during the campaign when he “predicted” the release of more hacked emails by Wikileaks before they were actually released. “Trust me, it will soon [be] Podesta’s time in the barrel,” Stone wrote weeks before Wikileaks released the DNC’s hacked emails.

Nothing to see here folks, just routine campaign business.

And yesterday, Stone acknowledged publicly that during the campaign he was actually in direct contact with Guccifer 2.0 the hacker identity who claimed responsibility for the DNC hacks. Downplaying it, Stone maintains that his contact was “so innocuous that I had forgotten about it” (yeah, right). Moreover, he claims he thought Guccifer was just a random hacker, not actually the hacking alias of Russian intelligence as our Intelligence Services now believe.

So, to run down where we are at this point: Donald Trump’s close confidant and campaign aide, a legendary political operative and dirty trickster that has been Trump’s friend for 40 years, has now admitted that he was corresponding – he says unknowingly – with agents of Russian intelligence who were hacking the campaign of his opponent, and working with the organization that was releasing the fruit of those hacks.

This is sure starting to look like a conspiracy that runs all the way up to the top.

But, tell me again why we don’t have a Special Prosecutor?

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