he had violated Twitter’s rules<\/a>.<\/p>\nHis suspension came hours after he used abusive and homophobic language to target journalists, including a gay CNN presenter, Don Lemon.<\/p>\n
Twitter has not commented or confirmed if Stone’s suspension is permanent.<\/p>\n
Stone was an aide to President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, and became a political consultant. He claims in the Netflix documentary Get Me Roger Stone that he got Mr Trump to run for president.<\/p>\n
While he acted as an adviser during the early days of the Trump campaign, he left his role in disputed circumstances in August 2015 – Mr Stone says he quit, Mr Trump says he was fired.<\/p>\n
Since then, Mr Trump has tried to put some distance between himself and Mr Stone, who regularly appears on network television to support his former employer.<\/p>\n
Over several hours on Saturday, Mr Stone took to Twitter to attack CNN and New York Times journalists over their reporting.<\/p>\n
His attacks came hours after CNN reported that the first charges had been laid by a grand jury in the investigation into Russian influence on the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
In a Facebook post, Mr Stone said he believed his suspension should have ended “some time ago yet my Twitter feed is still not functional”.<\/p>\n
He added: “Several media outlets are reporting that I have been permanently banned but Twitter has not informed me that that is the case.”<\/p>\n
One of the people he targeted on Saturday, CNN contributor Ana Navarro, said she did not sympathise with Mr Stone over his suspension.<\/p>\n