The Special Counsel Is Bearing Down on Roger Stone

[KelleyKramer]

The Special Counsel Is Bearing Down on Roger Stone

The longtime Trump adviser appears to have asked an associate to obtain anti-Clinton emails from WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/mueller-appears-close-indicting-stone-alleged-lies/578794/?utm_term=2018-12-21T11%3A00%3A22&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter


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Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, appears to be at the center of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into a potential conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia because of his uncanny predictions throughout 2016 about WikiLeaks, which published Democratic documents stolen by Russia during the election.

The self-proclaimed “dirty trickster” said several times in 2016 that he was directly in touch with Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks. But he has since walked that back, drawing more scrutiny from congressional and federal investigators and ensnaring several of his contacts in the process. “I had no contact with Assange,” Stone told ABC earlier this month, despite the fact that he exchanged private messages with WikiLeaks on Twitter in October 2016. He also said he would never turn on the president. “There’s no circumstance under which I would testify against the president, because I’d have to bear false witness against him,” Stone said. “I’d have to make things up, and I’m not going to do that.”


Now it could soon be Roger Stone’s time in the barrel. The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Thursday to release the official transcript of his testimony to Mueller, days after Mueller formally requested it—the last step necessary for prosecutors to bring a charge of lying to Congress, according to The Washington Post.

Mueller’s team has proved highly successful so far in getting even Trump’s most loyal associates to “flip” on the president using criminal charges as leverage. Just this month, Mueller struck a formal cooperation deal with Trump’s longtime personal lawyer Michael Cohen after charging him with lying to Congress about a Russian real-estate deal he and Trump were pursuing in 2016. If Stone is charged by Mueller with a similar crime and decides to cooperate rather than face jail time, it could spell danger for the president. Stone reportedly spoke to Trump regularly during the election, and could be in a position to fill in missing details about the campaign’s ties to WikiLeaks.


MUCH more on the link-

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/12/mueller-appears-close-indicting-stone-alleged-lies/578794/?utm_term=2018-12-21T11%3A00%3A22&utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_content=edit-promo&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter


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[RDANGELO]

1. I don't think he will ever sing.

He thinks he's a hero, another G Gordon Liddy. I hope they have other evidence that he was the go between or evidence that it was someone else.

[Scarsdale]

3. Oh, I think he WILL flip.

He thinks he is too "special" to serve jail time. Remember Cohen said "I would take a bullet for Mr. tRump"?? Well, scrap THAT. Stone looks like the possum I startled on the patio a while ago. Same eyes and pointed features. Hard to picture him as a swinger. He advertised in swinger mags. They all talk big, until reality slap them square in the face.

[FreepFryer]

5. He has absolutely no inner compass nor inner strength. He's a ratfucker and will flip so fast...

...it’ll blow Trump’s hairpiece off.

Stone is deeply compromised, by his own words and actions, and given the nature of his crimes, he is gonna get creamed by Mueller.

[Sherman A1]

2. Good

Hopefully he will get some quality time in a nice Federal facility.

[duforsure]

4. I think when Roger Stone

Understands Mueller knows everything already he'll turn on trump in a heartbeat to save himself, or he knows he'll end up in prison maybe for the rest of his life. He's not the loyalist he proclaims to be when it gets down to himself over trump , and will give it all up . Mueller knows who Roger Stone is and has already made more than enough discoveries about him and his criminal past to put him away for a long , long time. Stone is just putting on an act, just like trump often does.

[FreepFryer]

6. Correct, Stone is without a shred of actual strength. (N/t)