Roger Stone’s involvement in President Donald Trump’s Russia scandal is so bad that even the Nixon Foundation wants nothing to do with him, going to desperate lengths to portray him as merely a coffee boy the way Trump tried to characterize George Papadopoulos when he got busted by the FBI.
The FBI arrested Stone on Friday morning in a surprise raid after Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicted him on seven charges, including obstruction of justice, witness tampering and lying to Congress about his communications with Wikileaks, which Russia used to make Hillary Clinton’s emails public in an effort to undermine her campaign during the 2016 Election.
Upon exiting the courthouse in Florida, Stone went full Nixon by raising his arms and flashing peace signs with his hands as if to say ‘I’m not a crook.’
But the man with a Nixon tattoo on his back is so embarrassing that the Nixon Foundation tried to distance itself from him later that same day on Twitter by using a version of the “coffee boy” defense Trump and his advisers have used to distance themselves from George Papadopoulos:
This morning’s widely-circulated characterization of Roger Stone as a Nixon campaign aide or adviser is a gross misstatement. Mr. Stone was 16 years old during the Nixon presidential campaign of 1968 and 20 years old during the reelection campaign of 1972. 1/2
— Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) January 25, 2019
Mr. Stone, during his time as a student at George Washington University, was a junior scheduler on the Nixon reelection committee. Mr. Stone was not a campaign aide or adviser. Nowhere in the Presidential Daily Diaries from 1972 to 1974 does the name “Roger Stone” appear. 2/2
— Nixon Foundation (@nixonfoundation) January 25, 2019
Of course, the Twitterverse wasn’t buying it.
Uhhh pretty sure Stone’s name appears in court documents linked to Watergate arrests.
— Fronk Thaddeus (@SirFronksalot) January 25, 2019
https://t.co/RUAiiJkkeD pic.twitter.com/oc0AWsTxPj
— WTAF (@heytweetthis) January 25, 2019
Mmmkay pic.twitter.com/ApOvjbCIzA
— Nik Wojcik (@nik_shine) January 25, 2019
Nope. There’s video footage of them together many times. Watch “Get Me Roger Stone” pic.twitter.com/NIxU4dpGDT
— Nik Wojcik (@nik_shine) January 25, 2019
Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Lee Atwater, young Republicans political operatives. pic.twitter.com/ZZ4d1yVrYV
— Ms. Wong (@MauiWong) January 25, 2019
Yeah, they barely knew each other. pic.twitter.com/TIguNEnd0E
— ry (@RyanTCarroll) January 25, 2019
It’s like the Nixon Foundation is trying to “Papadopoulos” Roger Stone…like he just got coffee for Nixon and didn’t really have anything to do with him. WOW…this really has been going on forever. Disgusting.
— Ryley Sell-Smith (@RyleySellSmith) January 25, 2019
Seriously, the Nixon Foundation should have just said nothing, but Stone is apparently so much of a crook that even they want no part of him. After all, Nixon may have been a crook, but he never sold America out to the Russians. Frankly, as one Twitter user observed, the Nixon Foundation should be happy.
I should think the Nixon Foundation would be thrilled with current events, seeing how they illustrate with great clarity that Richard Milhous Nixon was only the SECOND most corrupt President in U.S. history.
— My Work Here Is Done ?? (@MyWorkHeresDone) January 25, 2019
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