Roger Stone to Newsmax: Idea for Trump Presidency Traces to 1988

When Donald Trump descended the golden escalator at Trump Tower on June 16, 2015, to announce his presidential bid, Roger Stone told Newsmax on Monday, it was the “fulfillment of a dream” he first had about the president in 1988.

Stone, former adviser to the president, joined “Greg Kelly Reports” to say that Trump proves every day how right he was nearly 40 years ago.

“For me it was the fulfillment of a dream, an idea that I’d pushed since 1988,” Stone said of that day 10 years ago when Trump joined a crowded field of Republicans for the 2016 presidential nomination.

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