Trump campaign county chair was fired from police for threatening to rape boss’s wife and go on shooting spree

A New Hampshire Republican state representative and Trump campaign county chair was reportedly fired from his job as a police officer in 2006 after making violent threats against colleagues following a suspension for having a relationship with a 16-year-old high school student, according to recently released documents.

Rep Jonathan Stone, who represents Claremont in western New Hampshire in the state legislature, said he would kill fellow officers and rape the wife and children of his boss, the police chief at the time. The threats came after he was suspended for five days for a relationship with a student at Stevens High School.

A Claremont police detective wrote in an internal report that “the seriousness of threatening to kill command staff officers, raping the Chief’s wife, tying people up and going postal are violations at the most serious level”.

“Stone’s conduct goes so far beyond what is expected of a professional police officer that the only appropriate resolution is his removal from office,” the report found, according to InDepthNH.org.

Former president Donald Trump personally thanked Mr Stone for his work on the campaign as the Sullivan County chair during a speech in Claremont late last year and Mr Stone spoke on behalf of the campaign in interviews with media outlets leading up to the New Hampshire primary,the Granite Post noted.

Mr Stone is reported to have worked to keep the internal reports under wraps for years. The New Hampshire Supreme Court recently ruled that Mr Stone couldn’t block their release after InDepthNH.orgfiled a right-to-know request in 2020.

Mr Stone reportedly built a reputation for being aggressive on the job and he had previously been reprimanded for having assaulted a mentally