so roger stone is a figure who has operated in the dark corners of american politics for decades now. when donald trump was just a real estate mogul and reality television star, it was roger stone in trump s ear teaching him about politics, trying to get him involved with the hard right, trying to shape his ideological agenda. and of course when trump decided to run for president ultimately in 2015 roger stone was front and center as a key adviser. he ended up not working through most of that 2016 campaign. he was more of an outside figure then. but he s operated within the trump orbit ever since. and there have been moments when he s been close to president trump, former president trump, and moments when he s been distant from former president trump. he s also of course had his own legal challenges, his own connections to the russia investigation over many years. he s a rather complicated figure with a notorious past in
was a citizen than there was that trump will run for anything. the billionaire real estate mogul and reality television star, one of the most vocal critics of the president took all the credit for the decision to release the president s birth record. i am really honored, frankly, to have played such a big role in hopefully, hopefully getting rid of this issue. now, we have to look at it. we have to see, is it real? is it proper? what s on it? but i hope it checks out beautifully. donald trump, ladies and gentleman. he may have revived the debate but theories about the president s birthplace came up in 2008 when he campaigned for the nomination. it started with e-mail chains questioning citizenship with absolutely not a single fact to back any of it up.
donald trump for president of the united states in 2012? the real estate mogul and reality television star is now talking precisely about that. for the first time in my life, i ve had so many people over the years to ask me to do that, and for the first time in my life, i am absolutely thinking about it. i don t know that i ll do it. it is probable that i won t do it, but i can tell you they m thinking about it. somebody has to do something. we are losing this country. he says if he runs, he would run as a republican. i recently sat down with donald trump and asked him who is to blame for president obama and the democrats declining political fortunes with the american public and listen to. this. well, everybody gets blamed, wolf. he is having a hard time. i don t know if he is ever going to recover. i look at him as a president that really is in trouble. i see what is happening in the country. there is a movement that i have never seen before, whether it is tea party or whateve