Roger Stone’s Casey DeSantis C*** Outburst Reflects Poorly On Media Who Strategically Boost Trump

Roger Stone is a known quantity. For decades, the Republican operative has reveled in his own wrongdoing, mudslinging his way into ubiquity and former President Donald Trump’s inner circle.

It should come as no surprise, then, that Stone went so far as to call the wife of one of Trump’s rivals for the Republican nomination a c*** last week.

The comment serves not only as a reminder of Stone’s sins, but the fact that none of them — his association with the Proud Boys, his federal felony convictions, or his role in the Stop the Steal movement — have disqualified him from being used by members of the press when his aims coincide with theirs.

Politico senior writer Michael Kruse, for example, was all too happy to enlist Stone’s help in a hit piece on Florida’s First Lady earlier this year as her husband embarked on his campaign to supplant Trump as the Republican presidential nominee.

In it, Kruse said he had conducted “hundreds of interviews over the last few years and more than 60 more over the last few weeks” before concluding in his headline that DeSantis’s wife is his “‘greatest liability'” as well as his “‘greatest asset.'” And yet, the quality of those interviews of was laid bare by the fact that it was the words of three de facto Democratic operatives, as well as Stone, that featured most prominently in the piece.

“Have you ever noticed how much Ron DeSantis’ wife Casey is like Lady Macbeth?” Stone is quoted by Kruse as declaring. The quote serves as a motif of Kruse’s throughout the rest of the article.

Later, Stone tells Kruse that the firing of Susie Wiles — supposedly in part at Casey DeSantis’s behest — could come back to haunt her husband since Wiles now heads up Trump’s campaign.

“‘What’s done,’ to quote Lady Macbeth, ‘cannot be undone,'” declared Kruse in a shameless embrace of Stone’s comparison.

The folly of citing Stone as a credible voice on Casey DeSantis backfired magnificently last week when his star source called her a c***, exposing once and for all the nature of person Kruse was willing to amplify.

Kruse is far from alone; for years the media has partnered with the most unsavory and dishonest creatures in Trump world to advance their preferred narratives. His is only one of the starkest examples of the broader phenomenon.

Other such examples include MediasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski’s declaration that he and bigoted conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer had teamed up to attack DeSantis and thereby boost Trump’s standing in the Republican primary.

“He knows I’m a Trump loyalist, and I know he doesn’t like Trump, and despite our differences, we have found common ground on making sure Ron DeSantis is never elected president of the United States, ever,” explained Loomer.

Casey DeSantis was again made the principal victim of this unholy alliance in June, when Daily Beast executive editor Katie Baker tore into her, panning her as “Walmart Melania [Trump].” Contrasting DeSantis with the “sphinxlike” Melania, Baker called her “crude” and “grasping.”

“Ron and Casey will also never the be the Trumps,” she sneered.

While the media may believe they can use Trump and his toxic inner circle to advance a narrative, the truth — as Stone’s outburst shows — is that it’s almost always the other way around; It’s Trump who’s using them.

This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.