How Did Roger Stone Know About The Access Hollywood Tape?

[deminks]

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/how-did-roger-stone-know-about-the-access-hollywood-tape

Roger Stone’s indictment last week laid out juicy, inside details about his alleged attempts to contact Wikileaks, including the tantalizing allegation that the Trump campaign directed him to do so.

Facing criminal charges hasn’t stopped the longtime GOP operative from getting caught up in a catfight with conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi, over conversations the two had in the hours before Trump’s now-notorious Access Hollywood tape was released.


But what seems to be yet another bizarre Stone-related imbroglio has the potential to answer larger questions about why Wikileaks began releasing the Podesta emails half an hour after the Washington Post published the Access Hollywood tape on Oct. 7, revealing Trump’s “Grab ’em by the pussy” remarks.

According to Corsi’s account, Stone frantically called him in the hours before the now-infamous video dropped, demanding that he push Wikileaks into publishing the Podesta emails as a way of diverting attention from the impending story.

Stone’s indictment records an associate of Trump campaign chair Stephen K. Bannon texting Stone “well done” after the release, and states that Stone went on to claim credit for the leak in the days after Wikileaks began the dump.

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And, how was Assange instructed to release the Podesta recipes for risotto.

[FakeNoose]

1. My guess is maybe he heard it from Billy Bush

Remember Billy - he was on the tape with Cheeto. He had to know about it long before it was released to the public. He must have told Jeb about it, and I'm guessing the word got out to other GOP insiders.

Anybody know anything different?

[ScratchCat]

2. I'm sure he learned

through his connections as I'm sure they had a 2 to 3 day lead on the story breaking. Someone surely asked Bush or others as AH for a comment before going forward with it. Its also been rumored that it was "Republican operatives" who dug that up, but I have no idea.

[dewsgirl]

3. How did he know about Al Franken? I so hope this comes to

light.