During ‘Revealing Lunch’ Interview, Reporter Gets Roger Stone to Take Off Shirt

Here is the headline of a recent Newsweek piece profiling Donald Trump‘s ally Roger Stone:

Here is arguably the most important paragraph:

Finally, here is a resulting tweet that encapsulates how the interview with Stone went for reporter Nina Burleigh:

.@ninaburleigh got @RogerJStoneJr to take his shirt off (I didn’t know Stone claims to have brought down Client 9!) https://t.co/OF827JsHm6 pic.twitter.com/mCk3U7NOJl

— Joshua Saul (@joshfromalaska) October 24, 2016

There is more information to be found in the profile, of course, because almost everyone knows of Stone’s permanent shrine to Richard Nixon by now. It just doesn’t hurt to be reminded of it.

Beyond the basic biographical information, the profile is serves up some of his greatest hits:

Among his greatest hits: Stone takes credit for bringing down Client 9—otherwise known as former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer—by parlaying intel he got from an off-duty prostitute he met in a sex club into an FBI tip about a Democrat who hired hookers and never removed his socks. Before that, he organized the so-called Brooks Brothers riot in the Miami-Dade County clerk’s office that stopped the 2000 election recount and arguably gave America the presidency of George W. Bush.

The whole thing is worth a read, if only for how sincere Burleigh seemed as she endeavored to see the ink for herself.

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