Trump ally Roger Stone hired to lobby for Bay Area tribe seeking control of Presidio

Trump ally Roger Stone hired to lobby for Bay Area tribe seeking control of Presidio

By J.K. Dineen, SF Chronicle, April 21, 2026

Self-described “dirty trickster” and longtime Donald Trump ally Roger Stone has been hired to lobby for the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe of the San Francisco Bay Area, a controversial group that last year petitioned the White House to take over management of the Presidio.

In a lobbying disclosure form filed on Monday, Stone’s firm, Drake Ventures, reported that the tribe had paid it $30,000 for services in the first quarter of this year and another $20,000 in the fourth quarter of 2025, according to public records.

The filing, which doesn’t have any specific information about what the lobbying efforts consist of or whether it’s related to the Presidio, comes nearly two weeks after President Trump terminated the national park’s Board of Trustees.

And it comes more than a year after Trump issued an executive order that threatened to “dramatically” downsize the park’s operations. After that executive order, the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe, which has been fighting for 45 years to be added to the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ official list of recognized tribes, called on Trump to “return the Presidio to indigenous care.”

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