Roger Stone uses racial slur on live radio show with Black host — ‘The low-calorie version of the N-word’

Roger Stone could be heard calling a Black radio show host “negro” on air over the weekend — but the recently pardoned Trump pal claims he was the victim of a “smear” while also contending the slur isn’t offensive.

In an interview on California station KFI-AM on Saturday night, Stone argued with host Morris O’Kelly about President Trump’s decision to commute his federal conviction days before he was supposed to start a 40-month prison sentence for lying to Congress, obstructing justice and threatening a witness in the investigation into Russia’s attack on the 2016 election.

“It was a jury of my political opponents,” Stone said in the interview.

But O’Kelly countered that Stone’s friendship with Trump gave him an unfair advantage.

“There are thousands of people treated unfairly daily,” O’Kelly said. “Hell, your number just happened to come up in the lottery. I’m guessing it was more than just luck, Roger, right?”

Stone then went silent before saying in a muffled voice: “I don’t really feel like arguing with this negro.”

But, emailing with the Daily News on Sunday, Stone denied using the slur and pointed fingers at O’Kelly’s engineer.

“Some studio engineer can very clearly be heard using the alleged epithet after he cut my sound feed off three times,” Stone said. “Why is it that everyone on the left must label anyone who disagrees with them or supports President Trump as ‘a racist?' This is a smear designed to boost Mr. Kelly’s meager ratings at my expense.”

However, in a peculiar double-take, Stone then suggested “negro” isn’t an offensive slur.

“Mr. O’Kelly needs to spend a little more time studying black history and institutions. The word negro is far from a slur, according to my many Black friends,” Stone said.

The Republican trickster claimed faulty audio equipment could be to blame and said he had contracted “a forensic sound technician” to get to the bottom of the matter.

“I will publish a report shortly,” he said.

O’Kelly scoffed at Stone’s after-the-fact explanations and said there’s no doubt in his mind the Trump associate used the racist phrase.

“Mr. Stone keeps changing his story from ‘categorical denial,' to blaming my engineer, my ears and also arguing that the word is innocuous,” O’Kelly tweeted Sunday night. “The audio is the audio. Be well Roger.”