Ari Melber Fact Checks Roger Stone | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

Trump adviser Roger Stone tries to distance himself from guilty Manafort associate Rick Gates in an interview with CNN by claiming Gates never worked at his and Paul Manafort’s lobbying firm. Ari Melber fact checks this new defense, as both Stone and Infowars’ Alex Jones allege ‘fake news’.

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Ari Melber Fact Checks Roger Stone | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

[conniekimble]

These grown adults remind me of 3rd grade boys lying to me about what happened at recess.

[mutoneon]

Better to be infamous than not famous at all, right Rog? Enjoy spending the rest of your life in prison!

[NOURINHO-rvfk]

The FACTS is really a painful bill to swallow. Ari you nailed the truth. So that is why he is worried.

[TheYafnit]

Is that Paul Manafort and Rodger Stone in the thumbnail?

[saint]

You can not believe Rodger Stone; even if he simply says 'I had dinner w/them'.
#Liar

[timothymccaskey]

A lot of people claim that Roger Stone is a Tool but I think of him more as a Right-Wingnut.

[sclogse]

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What's he building in there? It's not a playhouse for the children. He's hiding something from the rest of us. He used to have a consulting business in Indonesia.. Now what's that sound from under the door?  He's pounding nails into a hardwood floor....

[Classsseaissues]

The way people are trying to jump ship it’s PURE ENTERTAINMENT 😂

[New_Blue_]

I hope Robert Mueller puts Roger Stone away for a long time.

[MiaCaliendo]

Roger Jason Stone Jr. (born August 27, 1952) is an American political consultant lobbyist, and strategist noted for his use of opposition research, usually for candidates of the Republican Party.

In 1980, he co-founded the Washington, DC-based lobbying firm Black, Manafort, Stone with principals Paul Manafort and Charles R. Black Jr. It recruited Peter G. Kelly and the firm was renamed Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly in 1984. During the 1980s, BMSK leveraged its "White House connections" to attract "high-paying clients" including "U.S. corporations", "trade associations", and foreign governments. By 1990, it was "one of the leading lobbyists for American companies and foreign organizations" .
IT SAYS IT ALL RIGHT THERE IN WIKIPEDIA. JIMINY CRICKET WHAT MORE PROOF DO YOU NEED THAT HE IS SHADY -BESIDES HIS PASSPORT AND TAX RETURNS. WELL HE CAN CHEAT ON HIS TAXES AND OF COURSE HAVE A DUPLICATE PASSPORT. IN BED WITH THE RUSSIANS MAYBE NOT DIRECTLY BUT IT IS ALL VERY COZY DONT YOU THINK.

[starcrib]

He has a pointy squeezed head. Its frightening. Maybe that way he lies. The truth is just squeezed off the point.

[shanejohns]

Stone thinks he's being cute by making a distinction between unpaid interns vs. paid 'workers'. The fact is, however...interns do LOTS of UNPAID work. Unpaid work is still work.

[JoeRyMi]

He didn’t address what Stone claimed. Stone is not Manafort. The fact that Gates worked with Manafort later doesn’t make Ari’s lie not a lie.

[morrisp.]

No matter how much grease Roger puts on that slimey head of his THIS my friends is not going to slide off. Mueller's coming Roger. Time to get affairs in order.

[MiaCaliendo]

Stone has been noted for his personal style, described as flamboyant.[121][122] In a 2007 Weekly Standard profile written by Matt Labash, Stone was described as a "lord of mischief" and the "boastful black prince of Republican sleaze."[3][123] Labash wrote that Stone "often sets his pronouncements off with the utterance 'Stone's Rules, ' signifying to listeners that one of his shot-glass commandments is coming down, a pithy dictate uttered with the unbending certitude one usually associates with the Book of Deuteronomy." Examples of Stone's Rules include "Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art, sometimes for its own sake."[3]

Stone does not wear socks—a fact that Nancy Reagan brought to her husband's attention during his 1980 presidential campaign.[124] Labash described him as "a dandy by disposition who boasts of having not bought off-the-rack since he was 17, " who has "taught reporters how to achieve perfect double-dimples underneath their tie knots."[123] Washington journalist Victor Gold has noted Stone's reputation as one of the "smartest dressers" in Washington.[125] Stone's longtime tailor is Alan Flusser. Stone dislikes single-vent jackets (describing them as the sign of a "heathen"); says he owns 100 silver-colored neckties; and has 100 suits in storage.[3] Fashion stories have been written about him in GQ and Penthouse.[3] Stone has written of his dislike for jeans and ascots and has praised seersucker three-piece suits, as well as Madras jackets in the summertime and velvet blazers in the winter.[111][115]

In 1999, Stone credited his preternatural looks to "decades of following a regimen of Chinese herbs, breathing therapies, tai chi and acupuncture, " according to the Times.[29] Stone wears a diamond pinkie ring in the shape of a horseshoe and in 2007 he had Richard Nixon's face tattooed on his back.[3] As of 2007, he owned five Jaguar cars and five Yorkshire Terriers.[3] In 2016, he claimed in a Newsweek interview that at least two of his dogs have been poisoned.[126] He has said: "I like English tailoring, I like Italian shoes. I like French wine. I like vodka martinis with an olive, please. I like to keep physically fit."[127]

Stone's office in Florida has been described as a "Hall of Nixonia" with framed pictures, posters, and letters associated with Nixon. Exceptions are a poster of a stripper and a photo of him standing by a pool with a bikini-clad pornographic film actress, Nina Hartley.

[juniorharry]

Hi Ari.👋.
Exceptional, excellent, brilliant(smart) reporting.👍👏👏.
Keep on digging, Ari.👍.
👉👉Patience democrats, patience.👍.

[kxkxkxkx]

Ari Melber is the news game Christopher Wallace

[JoeRyMi]

He didn’t address what Stone claimed. Stone is not Manafort. The fact that Gates worked with Manafort later doesn’t make Ari’s lie not a lie.