By Bob Norman
Columbia Journalism Review
April 6, 2019
Roger Stone was sitting in a Miami Beach condo surrounded by Richard Nixon campaign memorabilia. He was talking about his long-time boss Donald Trump, and saying he would make a great president.
“He’s already at the pinnacle of success,” Stone said. “He doesn’t need to be president to validate his own ego, which is quite large.”
This was late 2011, nearly four years before Trump took the famous downward escalator ride that set off the most tumultuous period in modern American history, leading Stone first back to prominence, and then to an arrest by the FBI on seven felony counts connected to the Mueller investigation last month. And it was more than a year before Stone would set out to destroy me, personally, with a three-year campaign of hatred and lies that now seems all too familiar.