Roger Stone appeared to use racial slur during a live interview on Saturday with a black radio host who pressured him on whether he received special treatment from President Trump. Morris W. O’Kelly, the host of The Mo’Kelly ShowHe told Stone that he believed his close ties to the president “weighed more” on his commute than Trump simply wanting to correct a mistake in the justice system.
“There are thousands of people treated unfairly on a daily basis. Hell, their number just showed up in the lottery. I guess it was more than luck, Roger, right?” O’Kelly said.
After a pause at the end of Stone, he apparently started talking to someone else during the interview. The first part of what he said was muffled, but he could clearly be heard complaining about “arguing with this nigger,” apparently in reference to O’Kelly.
After a long silence on his part, Stone reappeared and said, “Uhh, you’re back.”
“I was talking and you said something about ‘Black,’ so I wasn’t exactly sure,” O’Kelly said.
“I didn’t,” replied Stone, “you’re crazy.” He then dismissed the accusation with an exasperated “whatever”.
O’Kelly barely skipped a beat later and held the rest of the civil interview. In the second hour of the show, however, she explained why she continued.
“I’m still processing,” he said, clearly nervous.
“My job, as I see it, was to keep Roger Stone on the phone … My job was to keep him talking for his benefit,” he told listeners.
“The only thing I felt was true, honest and sincere that Roger Stone said was at that moment when he felt he was not listening,” he said. “As far as he was concerned, he was talking and arguing with a black man.”
O’Kelly said he was not so surprised to hear Stone’s epithet.
“If you think about Mary Trump’s recent allegations” that the N word was used in her family as she grew up, she said, “it fits a little bit.”
“Black is the light of N words. It is the low calorie version, the dietary version. She could have reached any pejorative in the world … but what did she look for? And so I think he was sincere. It was the true belief in his head, and he didn’t expect her to hear it.
In a statement to The Daily Beast, Stone again denied using a racial epithet.
“Categorically false like almost everything reported in The Daily Beast. It seems obvious that Kelly is looking to boost her pathetic ratings with a fabricated claim, ”said Stone, who did not explain how something listeners heard during a live show could have been fabricated. “Anyone who is aware of my 30 years of opposition to the racist drug war will realize how fabricated this is. Now I challenge you to use my full quote. “
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