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During a live radio show on Saturday, Roger Stone, the political operative who was spared a prison sentence this month by his friend President Trump, used a racial slur while speaking with the host, who is Black.
Mr. Stone was speaking on the “The Mo’Kelly Show," a program based at a Los Angeles radio station and hosted by Morris W. O’Kelly, known as Mo’Kelly.
On the show, Mr. O’Kelly questioned the role that Mr. Stone’s relationship and proximity to the president played in the commutation of his sentence.
The host asked: “There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily, how your number just happened to come up in the lottery, I am guessing it was more than just luck, Roger, right?”
Mr. Stone, who was speaking by phone, responded by muttering: “arguing with this Negro”; the beginning of his sentence was hard to hear. It sounded as if Mr. Stone were not speaking directly into the phone, but rather to himself or someone in the room with him.
When Mr. O’Kelly asked him to repeat what he said, Mr. Stone let out a sigh, then remained silent for almost 40 seconds. Acting as if the connection had been severed, Mr. Stone vehemently denied that he used the slur.
On July 10, days before he was set to report to prison, Mr. Trump commuted Mr. Stone’s sentence. Mr. Stone had been sentenced to a 40-month term for seven felony crimes relating to obstruction of a congressional investigation into Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and possible ties to Russia. Attempts to reach Mr. Stone on Saturday night were unsuccessful.
Mr. O’Kelly continued the interview after the awkward exchange. After the interview was over and Mr. Stone had left the air, Mr. O’Kelly explained to listeners that he had kept speaking with Mr. Stone because his job was “to keep him talking for your benefit, as the audience, and my benefit to have that conversation.”
Mr. Stone has been accused of using this kind of language in the past, according to Media Matters for America, a liberal-leaning media watchdog, which noted in 2016 that Mr. Stone had scrubbed his Twitter account of inappropriate posts.
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“The Mo’Kelly Show” is broadcast on Saturday and Sunday nights on KFI-AM640 in Los Angeles and on iHeartRadio.
Roger Stone Uses Racial Slur on Radio Show
Mr. Stone was speaking on the “The Mo’Kelly Show," a program based at a Los Angeles radio station and hosted by Morris W. O’Kelly, known as Mo’Kelly.
On the show, Mr. O’Kelly questioned the role that Mr. Stone’s relationship and proximity to the president played in the commutation of his sentence.
The host asked: “There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily, how your number just happened to come up in the lottery, I am guessing it was more than just luck, Roger, right?”
Mr. Stone, who was speaking by phone, responded by muttering: “arguing with this Negro”; the beginning of his sentence was hard to hear. It sounded as if Mr. Stone were not speaking directly into the phone, but rather to himself or someone in the room with him.
When Mr. O’Kelly asked him to repeat what he said, Mr. Stone let out a sigh, then remained silent for almost 40 seconds. Acting as if the connection had been severed, Mr. Stone vehemently denied that he used the slur.
On July 10, days before he was set to report to prison, Mr. Trump commuted Mr. Stone’s sentence. Mr. Stone had been sentenced to a 40-month term for seven felony crimes relating to obstruction of a congressional investigation into Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign and possible ties to Russia. Attempts to reach Mr. Stone on Saturday night were unsuccessful.
Mr. O’Kelly continued the interview after the awkward exchange. After the interview was over and Mr. Stone had left the air, Mr. O’Kelly explained to listeners that he had kept speaking with Mr. Stone because his job was “to keep him talking for your benefit, as the audience, and my benefit to have that conversation.”
Mr. Stone has been accused of using this kind of language in the past, according to Media Matters for America, a liberal-leaning media watchdog, which noted in 2016 that Mr. Stone had scrubbed his Twitter account of inappropriate posts.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/09/...on=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...on=CompanionColumn&contentCollection=Trending
“The Mo’Kelly Show” is broadcast on Saturday and Sunday nights on KFI-AM640 in Los Angeles and on iHeartRadio.
Roger Stone Uses Racial Slur on Radio Show