You’re known by the company you keep, and many members of Nevada’s right wing have been proud of their alliance with self-described political dirty trickster and Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone.

Whether their giddiness was dashed Friday morning with Stone’s indictment by special counsel Robert Mueller in the Russia investigation remains uncertain. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

Stone was arrested by FBI agents at his Fort Lauderdale, Florida home and faces seven felony counts — including obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering — as the Mueller investigation grinds ever closer to the front door of the White House. It seems like only yesterday he was lauding the campaigns of Nevada Republicans, trading conspiracy theories with Wayne Allyn Root and making public appearances on behalf of embattled Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy.

I’m not sure whether failed GOP gubernatorial candidate Adam Paul Laxalt has a copy of Stone’s breathless 2014 embrace in his political scrapbook, but the headline’s a real grabber: “I Have Seen The Future Of The Republican Party And His Name Is Adam Paul Laxalt.”

Now there’s an endorsement.

Highlights of the glorified publicity release, which boosted Laxalt’s state attorney general’s campaign and was published in the provocateur’s The StoneZone blog, include, “This may be one of the most important elections of 2014” and “Republicans constantly complain about the lack of ‘bench’ in the GOP. Here then is a candidate for America’s future.”

If Stone’s crystal ball has failed him at times, at least he’s been consistent in his embrace of Nevada’s most conservative Republicans. Take perennial candidate Danny Tarkanian, for instance. His unsuccessful run last year for Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District seat included a Florida fundraiser sponsored by Sunshine State politico Julio Gonzalez and featured a special guest appearance by none other than Stone himself.

Talk about celebrity.

Stone, fond of dressing like a pinstriped-pimp, stepped out last year to endorse the state Assembly candidacy of Nevada brothel mogul Dennis Hof. Although Hof won his race, he died of an apparent heart attack before taking office.

If ever a pair appeared well-matched, it’s Stone and far-right firebrand and Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Root. Nevadans know Root as a former sports handicapping tout who has emerged as a leader of Nevada’s Forever Trump fraternity. During a presidential campaign stop, Root was even selected to introduce the candidate.

As fellow fringy conspiracy theorists, Root and Stone are politically simpatico. When Root in 2015 published “Angry White Male: How the Donald Trump Phenomenon is Changing America,” Stone provided the foreword.

They have something else in common: Their hurtful and false blather about the Oct. 1, 2017 mass shooting on the Strip that killed 58 people. In a tweet, Root immediately blamed Muslim terrorists for the slaughter. Not to be outdone, Stone took to the “Infowars” airwaves three days after the shooting and offered, “It’s becoming very clear to me that the murderous terrorist shooter in Las Vegas, if he is indeed the shootist, is certainly a virulent, anti-Trumper leftist.” On the same day he stretched his theory to include the shooter as a possible gun runner with ties to the FBI or DEA.

Of those with ties to Stone, perhaps Bunkerville rancher Bundy provides the saddest case of all. Stone emerged during the Bundy family’s bruising legal battle — one fomented in part by misleading reports on “InfoWars” and other right-wing websites, and offered his strange brand of celebrity and proximity to President Trump. During a Las Vegas appearance and Bundy rally, Stone is reported to have alluded to the potential for a pardon should the defendants’ criminal case end in conviction.

Stone’s presence was one of many signs the Bundy affair was being used by friends of the administration to make the argument for federal overreach — but not to protect a gnarled Nevada cattleman. Soon enough, newly appointed Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke would ride to their rescue by scaling back national monuments and opening up more of the arid West to mining and fracking.

Fortunately for the Bundys, their criminal cases were dismissed with prejudice. It’s a good thing they didn’t need to rely on a pardon facilitated by Roger Stone.

From the look of things, one day soon he may be seeking one for himself.

John L. Smith is an author and longtime columnist. Contact him at at [email protected]. On Twitter: @jlnevadasmith