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Posted on 04/25/2026 7:51:18 AM PDT by RandFan
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.”
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So am I. Roger Stone was unjustly persecuted.
Also, I’m hoping Rudy Giuliani is soon made whole again.
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Roger Stone and his then wife Ann Stone were arch-pro-aborts, so I never cared much for him.
That said, he seems to be using his energies more productively, and he was treated very unfairly by Biden’s apparatchiks.
meh
recycling old school politics
only this “BREAKING” article from Telegram grifters make it a ‘thing’.
Flash, it’s gone.
Roger who?
next up?
Flynn ... or Phillips ... or ...
Guy’s been on the radio for a while. I like his show, although his obsession with lowlife Bob Torricelli who was ousted from the Senate because he got illegal contributions/gifts from a Korean/Chinese crook. Now he’s some sort of self styled international affairs guru. Wonder if Menendez will do the same when he gets out of prison.
Roger fingered LBJ whacking JFK.
Can’t argue with that.
No, he was ousted from the Senate because he did not share the contributions/gifts with his fellow Senators. Not because he accepted them. If they kicked out every Senator that tool illegal money [money that they were not entitled] There would be no one left in the Senate today.
Nope. I think he hit the nail square on the head there. Ditto Martin Luther King.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecuted Roger Stone, securing a conviction on seven felony counts of obstruction, witness tampering, and making false statements to Congress in November 2019. Following a sentencing recommendation of 7–9 years by line prosecutors, senior DOJ officials intervened to lower this recommendation, causing the trial team to resign in protest.
Stone was found guilty of lying to Congress, witness tampering, and obstructing the House investigation into “Russian interference” in the 2016 election. Federal prosecutors originally recommended a sentence of 7 to 9 years in prison.
After President Trump tweeted that the original recommendation was “unfair,” senior DOJ officials overruled it, recommending a lighter sentence. In protest of the intervention, all four prosecutors assigned to the case resigned from the case, with one quitting the DOJ entirely.
Final Sentence: Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Stone to 40 months (3 years and 4 months) in prison, criticizing his actions, but ultimately issuing a sentence lower than the original recommendation.
President Trump later commuted Stone’s sentence, preventing him from serving the prison time. The handling of the case caused significant internal controversy, with allegations of political interference. For more, see the official Department of Justice press release.
And he has a huge tattoo of Richard Nixon covering his whole back.
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It’s hard to feel sorry for Roger Stone - he is a blow hard moron, and has been a drag on Trump’s presidency.
He had done nothing illegal, but when called to testify absolutely lied, and tampered with a witness to cover up his lie.
He was in communication with Wikileaks to push for of Hilary Clinton’s emails to be released. Not a big deal. But then tried to cover it up. He had literally bragged about it on his radio show, so made himself an easy target.
In 1990, Stone and his then-wife, Ann Stone, co-founded Republicans for Choice, an organization dedicated to opposing the Republican party’s strict platform against abortion rights. At that time, Stone argued that the GOP’s opposition to abortion was harmful to the party’s electoral success and described his position as “pro-choice and respect life,” considering it a matter of reducing government interference.
Political Strategy vs. Personal Belief: Stone has often approached the topic from a strategic, rather than strictly ideological, perspective. In 2017, he stated that candidates should focus on fiscal conservatism and avoid intense involvement in social issues like abortion.
Recent Positions: While he has a history of favoring abortion rights, more recently, he has faced scrutiny from political opponents. In a 2022 interview, he denied being pro-abortion, saying that he does not trust the government to regulate the issue and instead prefers to focus on reducing the need for abortions.
He has used strong language against some individuals, at one point in a recorded rant calling a family member of Jared Kushner a “pro-abortion b**ch”.
Nobody cares about stopping abortion anymore.
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