How Roger Stone got Atlantic City to make its harbor deeper so Donald Trump could moor his mega-yacht The Trump Princess he bought from Jamal Khashoggi's Saudi arms dealer uncle

Before Roger Stone advised Donald Trump the presidential candidate, he pulled a number of levers for Donald Trump the businessman early in his lobbying career.

In fact, he even got Atlantic City's harbor to be dug deeper so that Trump's mega-yacht could park there. 

In their new book The Wolves of K Street, journalist brothers Brody and Luke Mullins write about the expansive growth of the lobbying industry.

They look at the creation of Black, Manafort & Stone - the GOP lobbying firm helmed by Charles Black and two well-known Trump associates: Paul Manafort and Stone. 

Trump, then a real estate tycoon in his mid-30s, was one of the firm's first big-name clients on the heels of President Ronald Reagan's 1980 election win. 

Donald Trump (right) and his then-wife Ivana Trump (left) pose in front of their new luxury yacht The Trump Princess on July 4, 1988 after it arrived to New York from the Azores

Trump wished to park The Trump Princess at the Farley State Marina but it was initially too shallow to handle the 285-foot yacht Trump purchased in 1987 

Trump enlisted the help of Roger Stone (right) a GOP lobbyist who was a devotee of President Richard Nixon (left) even after Watergate, who would later advise his presidential campaign

The Trump Princess is photographed on July 9, 1988 off the coast of Atlantic City, New Jersey.  Trump wanted to dock it in Atlantic City to appeal to his casino clients 

Stone, who stayed devout to President Richard Nixon even after Watergate, had met Trump during the 1980 presidential campaign through Roy Cohn.

Cohn became known after his death as Trump's right-hand man but was best known at the time for being Sen. Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the anti-Communist hearings of the 1950s. 

Stone was looking to build up support for Reagan in New York. 

'So, Roy set up a meeting for me with Donald,' Stone recalled in an interview. 'Donald said, "OK, give me the pitch," and I told him why Reagan would win.' 

That was enough to convince Trump to become a Reagan backer, providing the campaign staff with the use of his plane, office space and phones, the book said. 

After Reagan's election win, Stone convinced Trump to sign on as a client with his firm. 

He said the new lobbying firm could serve as his 'eyes and ears' in Washington, D.C.  

The super-yacht included flashing photos of Donald and Ivana Trump projected onto the mirrored ceiling of ones of its many rooms 

The Trump Princess had a number of themed staterooms including the red and white striped Ruby Suite 

Chamois leather paneled walls in a yellow sitting room, designed by Luigi Sturchio, on board Donald Trump's yacht, The Trump Princess

A photo of Paul Manafort (left), Roger Stone (center), and Lee Atwater (right) - a top adviser to Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush - in the early days of their lobbying career 

Enter the Trump Princess - a 285-foot yacht purchased for around $30 million by Trump in 1987 from billionaire Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, the uncle of murdered Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. 

The authors describe the yacht as have a 'distinctly Trumpian aesthetic' with 'onyx floors, mahogany walls, gold-plated pillars, a private elevator, and an on-board disco.' 

Photos from that time period show that pictures of Ivana and Donald Trump were flashed on a mirrored ceiling in one of the cabins. 

That room came equipped with purple couches with large gold pillows. 

And that one of the staterooms, the Ruby Suite, was filled with Candyland-like furniture featuring red and white stripes.

The boat, however, was too big for Atlantic City's Farley State Marina, where Trump wanted to dock it. 

The future president poses in one of the gilded bathrooms on the luxury yacht, The Trump Princess, in 1988 

One of the staterooms on Trump's luxury yacht, The Trump Princess, which initially was too big to park near his Atlantic City casinos 

The Trump Princess even included a theater room. 

A swimming pool on one of the decks of The Trump Princess, the luxury yacht the then-real estate developer bought for around $30 million from Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi

That's when Stone stopped in. 

He worked his political contacts and secured the necessary permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to have Atlantic City's harbor dredged deep enough for the yacht to pull through. 

'Those permits can take years,' Stone recalled, according to the authors. 'I got it done in months.'  

In a 1989 spread for Boat International, Trump said that he made the boat available for 'very high rollers who spend millions of dollars a year in the casinos.' 

'There is a whole market there,' Trump said of Atlantic City - where he once held three of the casino hotels. 'While I was building Farley Marina, I was trying to get the boat, because I knew that she would blow everybody's mind. She would become a spectacle.' 

Trump sold the yacht just a year later in 1990.