A two-term Republican New Hampshire state legislator who is also the Sullivan County chair for Donald Trump’s reelection campaign was once fired from his job–as a police officer–after he threatened to murder his chief, rape the chief’s wife, and slaughter his colleagues after being suspended for having a romantic relationship with a 16-year-old girl attending a local high school, New Hampshire Public Radio reports. And even with that resume, he opened a gun store after losing his job.
A member of the legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee, Jonathan Stone has been in the state legislature since 2022 even though an internal Claremont police report of the incident concluded, “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 was never charged for the terroristic threats.
Stone was fired on the grounds that he “lacked moral character” but his union rep negotiated the reference to be removed from Stone’s file and the records of his outburst sealed in exchange for his resignation. He filed an unsuccessful suit to block a reporter’s state FOIA request for his records. Stone became a favorite of Trump after presenting Trump with a custom AR-15 Stone built for Trump during the 2016 campaign season.