Stone goes off on his ‘Bam judge’

This dirty trick backfired spectacularly.

Roger Stone apologized to the federal judge overseeing his criminal case Monday after twice blasting her as an “Obama-appointed” partisan and posting and deleting a photo of her face next to what appeared to be cross-hairs.

The embattled confidant to President Trump initially put out the picture of Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Instagram but deleted it after the Daily News asked him about the apparent rifle scope in the upper left hand corner of the image.

Minutes later, the self-described “dirty trickster” of politics posted another version of the photo that cropped out the cross-hairs but still included a caption ripping Jackson as a shill for special counsel Robert Mueller — even though the federal judge had issued a gag order last week barring Stone from making any public statements that could “pose a substantial likelihood of material prejudice to this case.”

Hours later, the 66-year-old longtime GOP operative deleted that photo and filed a formal “notice of apology” in Jackson’s D.C. court.

Stone (photo), who was indicted in Mueller’s Russia investigation last month over his 2016 contacts with WikiLeaks, later told The News he apologized to avoid any ambiguity.

“It was open to misinterpretation and therefore I apologized lest there be any confusion,” he said in a text message.

Earlier in the day, the longtime Trump friend and adviser said he hadn’t noticed the crosshairs symbol in the corner of the photo before posting it on his personal Instagram account.

“I saw no such thing,” Stone said. “It is simply a photo of the Judge off the Internet.”

Stone also claimed he had cleared the post with his legal team and insisted it was not violating the gag order.

Within hours, all mention of Jackson was scrubbed from Stone’s Instagram account.

Stone is due back in Jackson’s court on March 14.