Ex-Trump Advisor Defends Breitbart: ‘Totally False’ We Paid For Stories

Ex-Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone, despite having recently gone through a contentious separation with the Trump campaign and accusing Trump of “losing his grip on reality,” defended his former boss and Breitbart from the recent allegation that they had a cash-for-coverage arrangement.

“That is, to my knowledge, totally false,” Stone said of the BuzzFeed story in an interview with Daily Beast’s Matt Lewis. “Trump has never paid for any kind of media coverage, online, or otherwise – at least as far as I know.”

He added that the story’s author McKay Coppins was “not a credible reporter” whose reporting on Trump was particularly flawed. “He’s the same guy who wrote that Trump would never run, and that Trump would never file his financial disclosures, and that if Trump did run that he would fall flat on his face.”

“So McKay Coppins is zero for three,” he concluded. “Why anyone would buy his book about the Republican process, given the fact that he’s now zero for four, kind of astounds me.”

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