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When Stone parted ways with the Trump campaign in 2015-Stone said he left, Trump said he was fired- The Washington Post described him as the then-candidate's "longest-serving political adviser and a controversial consultant." In Stone's resignation letter, the Post reported at the time, Stone said he regretted the tension the campaign placed on a "close relationship-both personal and political/professional-since the 1980s." "This is something that has to do solely with that individual and not something that affects us in this building."īut Stone and Trump do have a long personal history with one another. "This has nothing to do with the president and certainly nothing to do with the White House," press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on CNN after the news broke. Bombshell news dropped on Friday when Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Donald Trump, was arrested by the FBI before sunrise.Īlmost immediately thereafter, the White House looked to distance itself from the so-called dirty trickster with a tattoo on his back of Richard Nixon and a penchant for foppish dressing.