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The New York Times reports:
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.
Forbes reports:
Stone was heard pausing before audibly muttering: “I don’t really feel like arguing with this negro,” to which O’Kelly responded by asking: “Roger? I’m sorry, what did you say?” Stone stays silent for about 40 seconds, during which the line remained audible, before he sighed and responded: “Uhh, you’re back, you there? Hello?”
Asked again about saying the word “negro”, Stone replied: “I did not. You’re out of your mind. You’re out of your mind,” before going on to blame the phone connection. Speaking after the interview, O’Kelly said the derogatory term was the “diet version of the N-word” and something that, as a Black man, he comes across “pretty frequently”.
Clear as day. Listen.
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