Donald Trump Reportedly Fired Roger Stone as Campaign Adviser
Donald Trump has reportedly told The Washington Post that his longtime adviser, Roger Stone, has been fired. Reporter Robert Costa tweeted that Trump said that trying to clean house of “publicity seekers” making Stone the latest employee to be fired this week.
Costa reported that Trump and Stone have had disagreements with each other for some time, and that Trump wanted to establish that they are no longer working together. Trump said that while Stone would have a different description than him about the end of their partnership, he said that split happened because Trump only wants to run a campaign with the most serious people.
BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump has fired Roger Stone as a political adviser, per Trump in intvw w/ @washingtonpost
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 8, 2015
Trump tells WaPo: I'm going to kick my 2016 campaign into higher gear, cleaning house, no more "publicity seekers"
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 8, 2015
Trump acknowledged that Stone may offer a different take on how this all went down. But he wanted to be clear: Stone is gone from Team Trump
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 8, 2015
On phone now w/ @RogerJStoneJr: "I categorically deny I was fired and I'll let my resignation letter speak to the other issues."
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 8, 2015
Trump just called @washingtonpost again. Said, "I want to surround myself only w/ the best and most serious ppl. We want top of line pros."
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 8, 2015
While Costa’s tweets did not allude to any particular, recent statements from Stone, the former adviser drew attention this week after starting Twitter fights with Roland Martin and Ana Navarro:
Ana Navarro the dumbest person on TV since CNN fired moron @rolandmartin – both quota hires #CNN
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) July 28, 2015
So @realDonaldTrump has already fired one racist campaign aide this week. He needs to now fire despicable @RogerJStoneJr.
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) August 4, 2015
Geraldo Rivera also weighed in on this squabble, which soon developed into his own disagreement with Stone:
@Mediaite @ananavarro & @rolandmartin have twice the intellect and integrity of @RogerStone. @realDonaldTrump doesn't need thugs like him.
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) August 5, 2015
@GeraldoRivera is an embarrassing hack fired by FOX for his lack of ratings.
Ailes kept him around long past any value. #pathetic
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) August 5, 2015
@RogerJStoneJr when I see you around Fox News I'm going to kick your racist ass punk
— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) August 5, 2015
Both Martin and Stone have tweeted out their own response to the event:
BOOM! Per @costareports: BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump has fired @RogerJStoneJr as a political adviser, per Trump in intvw w/ @washingtonpost
— rolandsmartin (@rolandsmartin) August 8, 2015
Sorry @realDonaldTrump didn't fire me- I fired Trump. Diasagree with diversion to food fight with @megynkelly away core issue messages
— Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) August 8, 2015
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