Roger Stone: ‘John Kasich Fired from Reagan’s Staff for Selling Drugs’

Last Thursday — the day after the debate — Stone appeared on Dana Loesch’s radio show where he repeated his claim. He explained that — as a libertarian — he’s actually in favor of the legalization of marijuana, but that’s beside the point. He is, Stone said, just shocked by Kasich’s “hypocrisy”: the Ohio governor pretends to be the drug fighter par excellence while he was actually a (minor) drug dealer himself back in the day.

“It is a stone-cold fact,” Stone said, “that I dismissed him from our field operation because of complaints that he was selling pot to other field men. I don’t really care whether he used pot — I really don’t. My issue here is the hypocrisy.”

He went on to say that “the drug war has been an … abysmal failure. It hasn’t worked…. I called John Kasich’s bluff. He’s a hypocrite.”

Stone is known to be a hard-hitting campaign operative and fervent supporter of Donald Trump, who also attacked Kasich during Wednesday’s Republican debate. Although Trump didn’t say anything about Kasich’s past drug use — or dealing — he did lash out at the Ohio governor and potential establishment favorite for being “lucky” with “fracking,” saying pure chance is the only reason Ohio’s doing so well now.