The rise and fall of the 'trysexual' dirty trickster Roger Stone

GET A $1000 amazon.com GIFT CARD: http://bit.ly/2QrJz1v. The rise and fall of the 'trysexual' dirty trickster Roger Stone. A guilty verdict Friday brought an abrupt end to the decades-long career of Roger Stone, a smooth-talking agent provocateur and self-proclaimed dirty trickster who thrived in the shadier margins of U.S. politics. Growing up in Lewisboro, New York, to a blue-collar Catholic family, Roger Jason Stone Jr.'s zeal for the rough and tumble of political life was apparent from a young age. In elementary school he advocated for John F. Kennedy telling kids in the cafeteria line that Nixon would make them attend extra classes on a Saturday if he won the 1960 election. When he was a junior and vice president of student government in high school Stone manipulated the ouster of the president so he could take over. 'I built alliances and put all my serious challengers on my ticket,' he would brag to the New York Times decades later. 'I recruited the most unpopular guy in the school to run against me. You think that's mean? No, it's smart.' Stone entered the political arena for real in 1972 when he ditched his studies at George Washington University, this time to support Nixon in his re-election campaign – not to be the only time he shifted allegiances without a qualm. In one of his first 'dirty tricks' he contributed $135 to one of Nixon's Republican rivals in the name of the Young Socialist Alliance - then slipped the receipt to a journalist. When Nixon triumphed the braggadocios young aide was rewarded was a job on the administration. Perhaps unintentionally, his association with student dirty tricks also gained him an association with the 'ratf***ers,' the dirty operative beloved of Nixon. Stone himself denied being one of them, saying they were from the University of Southern California, but the nickname was attached to him for life. The 37th President of the United States left a lasting impression on Stone: the longtime