The scofflaw rancher’s friends reach all the way to the top
On Friday, Roger Stone, the infamous political operative and adviser to Donald Trump will be in Las Vegas, drumming up support for a presidential pardon of Cliven Bundy, the scofflaw rancher who is currently awaiting trial for leading an armed standoff with federal agents at his Nevada ranch.
Stone, however, is far from the only friend of the Bundy family in the Trump administration. In 2014, as Bundy’s followers were pointing rifles at law enforcement officers from the Bureau of Land Management, the future president himself told Sean Hannity, “I like him, I like his spirit, his spunk and the people that are so loyal,” adding that Cliven Bundy “ought to go out and cut a great deal.”