Stone Sold Himself to Trump's Campaign as a WikiLeaks Pipeline

[struggle4progress]

By Sharon LaFraniere, Michael S. Schmidt, Maggie Haberman and Danny Hakim
Nov. 1, 2018

WASHINGTON — When the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, appeared on a video link from Europe a month before the 2016 presidential election and vaguely promised to release a flood of purloined documents related to the race, the head of Donald J. Trump’s campaign, Stephen K. Bannon, was interested.

He emailed the political operative Roger J. Stone Jr., who had been trying to reach him for days about what Mr. Assange might have in store. “What was that this morning???” Mr. Bannon asked on Oct. 4.

“A load every week going forward,” Mr. Stone replied, echoing Mr. Assange’s public vow to publish documents on a weekly basis until the Nov. 8 election.

The email exchange, not previously reported, underscores how Mr. Stone presented himself to Trump campaign officials: as a conduit of inside information from WikiLeaks, Russia’s chosen repository for documents hacked from Democratic computers ...

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/us/politics/roger-stone-trump-campaign-mueller-wikileaks.html

[Vinca]

1. I think Stone is going to end up in prison. He's clearly in Mueller's sights.

I also think he'll give up Tiny in a heartbeat to get his prison time shortened.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

2. Roger Stone and delivering a load-words that go together

Not the first, nor the last time Mr. Stone has delivered a load.

[Hekate]

3. KnR