Washington Republican agent Roger Stone, who was relieved of a 40-month prison sentence by former Allied President Trump this month, is being criticized for using a racial slur during a radio interview on Saturday, although he denies doing so.
Stone appeared on the Mr. Mo’Kelly Show, broadcast by KFI-AM in Los Angeles, Saturday night, during which he and radio host Morris O’Kelly discussed Mr. Trump’s decision to commute his prison sentence days before he was put in prison. report to federal prison in Georgia.
During the phone interview, O’Kelly, who is black, told Stone: “There are thousands of people treated unfairly on a daily basis. How your number appeared in the lottery, I suppose it was more than luck, Roger, right?” Then you hear a man who sounds like Stone saying, “I really don’t feel like arguing with this nigger,” although the audio is muffled.
After trying to reconnect with Stone and almost a minute of silence from the Republican operation, he reappears and says, “Are you there? Hello?”
O’Kelly confronted Stone about the comment, although he denied having made such a comment.
“I didn’t,” replied Stone. “You are out of my mind.”
In a statement to the Associated Press, Stone again denied using the insult, saying that “Mr. O’Kelly needs a good peroxide cleaning of the wax in his ears because I never called him black.”
“That said, Mr. O’Kelly needs to spend a little more time studying black history and institutions,” he continued. “The word black is far from being an insult.”
Stone was convicted in November of seven counts of obstruction, false statements and witness tampering in a case stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
Stone was sentenced to 40 months in prison in February, but a day before he surrendered, Trump cleared his entire sentence and his two years of supervised release, but refused to issue a full pardon.
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