Roger Stone - The Bush Crime Family: The Inside Story of an American Dynasty

WHAT THEYRE SAYING ABOUT ROGER STONE

A New York Times Bestselling Author

Roger Stone is one tough cookie We appreciate him.

President Donald J. Trump

This book exposes the Bush Clinton connection and alliance.

A. Gore Vidal.

Stone exposed LBJ, now he rips the veil off the Bush crime syndicate.

East Orlando Post

Known for hard-ball politics and a cloak and dagger sensibility.

New York Times

Skilled in the dark arts of politics.

The Atlantic

The most dangerous man in America.

The Village Voice

Everything hes ever told me has been incredibly accurate.

Alex Jones, Infowars

Stone, the former Richard Nixon acolyte known for his media savvy.

CNN Politics

Stone is a real-life Ray Donovan only his clients toil in state capitals and Washington, not Hollywood.

Go Up State

Roger Stone, a veteran political operative and unapologetic dirty trickster who is an ardent fan of the scandal-ridden but politically savvy Nixon.

Mother Jones

Roger Stone is the most elegant matre d the American political sewer ever has had.

Esquire

He is capable of employing tactics other operatives wouldnt dream of, let alone try.

CNN

Stone is one of the best sources in Washington for inside dirt.

Slate

Respected, hated, and always controversial.

No Quarter USA

Politics is war, and he is one of its fiercest warriors, with the battle scars to prove it.

The Weekly Standard

Stone has honed his black-arts legend for 40 years. A notorious dandy in bespoke suits and two-tone suede spectator shoes.

Newsweek

Seasoned practitioner of hard-edged politics. The New York Times

A longtime political hit man, Stone has excelled in the dark arts of politics for close to 50 years.

Salon

U.S. politics has never been kind and genteel. Anyone who believes otherwise is wrong. Its always been a game ruled by its most aggressive players. Roger Stone would know; hed be the first to admit hes one of them.

Big Think

Stone seems to have his mitts in every dirty trick since 1972.

The New Yorker

The inventor of negative campaign advertising and tactics.

Big Think

A dashing, colorful artist of the underhanded.

David Brooks, The New York Times

The GOPs dapper Pugilist.

The Washington Post

Notorious.

Vanity Fair

Controversial.

The Washington Post

The High Priest of political hijinks.

The Weekly Standard

An equal-opportunity trickster.

NY Daily News

Watching Stone is like watching a well-dressed cobra at rest.

- Esquire

His book [The Clintons War on Women] should have been called Bills Women and Hillarys War on Them.

- Larry Kudlow, CNBC

We are living in the age of Stone. Indeed his journey from a Dick Nixon Dirty Trickster to Donald Trumps man in the trenches, does roughly mirror the trajectory of the American right.

- Variety

Stone is one of the best-known and best-dressed political insiders in New York.

- Breitbart.com

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Copyright 2016 , 2017 by Roger Stone and Saint John Hunt

Foreword 2016 by John LeBoutillier

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file.

Previously published as Jeb and the Bush Crime Family .

Cover design by Brian Peterson

Cover photo credit AP Images

ISBN: 978-1-5107-2140-1

Ebook ISBN: 978-1-5107-2144-9

Printed in the United States of America

This book is dedicated to Governor John Davis Lodge, my political mentor, who taught me that politics is the art of inclusion and who, under extreme pressure, refused to appoint Prescott Bush to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate, an act of courage.

Roger Stone

This book is also dedicated to my mother Dorothy Hunt, who White House Counsel John Dean said was the savviest woman in the world, who had the whole picture [of Watergate] put together. I miss you every day.

Saint John Hunt

This book is also dedicated to those brave journalists who have blazed the trail when it comes to exposing the crimes of the Bush family: Russ Baker, Nick Bryant, Kevin Phillips, James Moore, Craig Unger, Webster Griffin Tarpley, Anton Chaitkin, Peter Brewton, Bill Minutaglio, Terry Reed, and David Corn. While the authors disagree with them on some issues, we respect them all.

Robert Morrow

CONTENTS

FOREWORD BY CONGRESSMAN JOHN LEBOUTILLIER

W hen Jeb was at Andover he ran an illegal drug and alcohol distributorship selling pot and booze to his fellow students but when the school authorities caught wind of it, Jeb sold out one of his partners and escaped by the skin of his teeth. This was told to me in the mid-1990s by my then-girlfriend, whose husband was one of Jebs Andover partners in this scheme. But because Jeb Bush had recently lost his bid to be governor of Florida, I put it in the back of my mind; his older brother, George W.known inside the Bush family as Juniorhad won his election in Texas and was the focus of Bush World. Jeb retreated into the backgroundfor a while.

Its funny how things come round in the world. Jeb, of course, went on to win two terms as Floridas chief executive and helped with the controversial recount in the 2000 Florida presidential election that made Junior our 43rd president. Today, even though Jeb suspended his campaign for the presidency, the events that occurred during our time at Andover are just as important for the American people to know.

In October 2006 I attended my 30th Harvard Reunion. During a cocktail party a classmate of mine who I didnt really know, Charles Hirschler, came up to me and began talking: Did you know that while I was at Andover with Jeb Bush, he ran this drug dealership with two other guys they were selling drugs and booze to students but Jeb cut and ran and sold out someone to save himself?

There it was againmore than a decade after I first heard it.

Thenagainin 2011, yet another Andover classmate of Jebs said to me, I never knew at the time why Jeb walked around the campus with his jaw hanging open he was stoned all the time!

Finally in the summer of 2015, a woman friend of mine who had been married to a guy in Jebs Andover class told me over lunch, Oh yeah he told me all about Jebs drug dealership.

So there we have it: four different guys who were either in Jebs graduating class at Andover or a year ahead of him all confirming Jebs role in this drug and booze dealership.

The American people needed to hear this before they voted. So I penned a 2013 column detailing the facts as I knew them and posted it on my website: johnlebout.com. I hoped someone in the media would someday use a search engine and find it and then do their own investigation.