Roger Stone is BACK

Roger Stone, who in the 1980s helped invent Washington’s modern influence industry, is back in the lobbying business. And he’s earning millions of dollars for his services.

With his longtime friend and former client Donald Trump back in the White House, Stone has returned to the lobbying work that first made him wealthy and helped cement his place in Republican politics. And with the president’s willingness to entertain corporate interests well established, clients are willing to pay big bucks for a lobbyist with a relationship with the president that few others can claim.

“He’s a public figure, people know who he is, people know who he knows,” said Paul Manafort, Stone’s former business partner, about Stone’s lobbying work. “Companies I’m sure are attracted to his abilities to figure out strategy and come up with ways to solve problems.”

Stone, who registered his first federal lobbying client in eight years on Trump’s 16th day back in office, has reported earning $2.7 million so far during the second Trump administration. Almost half of that total, $1.2 million, came in the first three months of 2026 alone, according to congressional lobbying records.

The demand for Stone’s one-man lobbying shop, Drake Ventures, has come from a range of groups from Native American tribes to rare earth suppliers and miners to a MAGA House candidate and more. It reflects the political reality that success in Washington comes easier to those with a direct line to the Oval Office. Stone and others with close relationships to Trump have not hesitated to capitalize on those relationships since Trump’s reelection.

“[Stone’s] career is one where he’s been very successful in marrying politics and government and issues,” Manafort said. “His experience is significant beyond many people in Washington given the length of his career.”

“No, Roger Stone did not lie”

You are very wrong, he was blatantly and stupidly lying. And for no good reason, because what he did was not a big deal, and definitely not illegal. But lying under oath is crime. Below is just one of many examples of him getting caught lying.

During his HPSCI testimony, STONE was asked, “So you have no emails to anyone
concerning the allegations of hacked documents . . . or any discussions you have had with third
parties about [the head of Organization 1]? You have no emails, no texts, no documents
whatsoever, any kind of that nature?” STONE falsely and misleadingly answered, “That is correct. Not to my knowledge.”

In truth and in fact, STONE had sent and received numerous emails and text messages
during the 2016 campaign in which he discussed Organization 1, its head, and its possession of
hacked emails. At the time of his false testimony, STONE was still in possession of many of these
emails and text messages, including:
a. The email from STONE to Person 1 on or about July 25, 2016 that read in part,
“Get to [the head of Organization 1] [a]t Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get
the pending [Organization 1] emails . . . they deal with Foundation, allegedly.”;
b. The email from STONE to Person 1 on or about July 31, 2016 that said an associate
of Person 1 “should see [the head of Organization 1].”;
c. The email from Person 1 to STONE on or about August 2, 2016 that stated in part,
“Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I’m back. 2nd
in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging.”;
d. Dozens of text messages and emails, beginning on or about August 19, 2016 and
continuing through the election, between STONE and Person 2 in which they
discussed Organization 1 and the head of Organization 1;
e. The email from STONE on or about October 3, 2016 to the supporter involved with
the Trump Campaign, which read in part, “Spoke to my friend in London last night.
The payload is still coming.”; and
f. The emails on or about October 4, 2016 between STONE and the high-ranking
member of the Trump Campaign, including STONE’s statement that Organization
1 would release “a load every week going forward.”

Plenty more here:
https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1124706/dl?inline=

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