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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRoger Stone search warrants reveal new clues -- and mysteries -- about 2016
Nearly three-dozen search warrants unsealed late Tuesday reveal a web of contacts between longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and other key figures in the long-running probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election.Stone, who was convicted last year of lying to House investigators during their own Russia probe, was never charged with aiding efforts by Russia. But his contacts with Assange add new details to a relationship that he long denied existed.
In a set of 2017 messages revealed in one search warrant, Stone assured Assange who spent years in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London before being arrested by British authorities last year that he would bring down the entire house of cards if U.S. prosecutors pursued him.
Stone also told WikLeaks in early 2017 that he was Assanges only hope for a pardon from the president if extradited and prosecuted in the United States. The longtime Trump adviser also appeared to be trying broker a deal to resolve the long-running U.S. investigation into Assange and WikiLeaks.
I am doing everything possible to address the issues at the highest level of government, Stone wrote to Assange in June 2017. Fed treatment of you and WikiLeaks is an outrage. Must be circumspect in this forum as experience demonstrates it is monitored.
Appreciated. Of course it is! Assange wrote back.
The newly revealed messages often raise more questions than answers. They show Stone in touch with seemingly high-ranking Israeli officials attempting to arrange meetings with Trump during the heat of the 2016 campaign. They also provide clues about an attempt to procure some kind of October surprise involving damaging information held by the Turkish government.
At times, Stone and his contacts appeared to acknowledge that Trump seemed doomed in the 2016 election and needed outside intervention. Stone also described multiple direct contacts with Trump and efforts to arrange meetings for him.
In the summer of 2016, one Stone associate expressed fears Trump would lose, floated critical intell that could impact the campaign and mounted a frenzied effort to get a one-on-one meeting with the candidate.
I have to meet Trump alone, the associate wrote to Stone in July 2016. Stone arranged for such a meeting, but he said in a later email that a fiasco ensued after the associate unexpectedly brought a foreign military officer along.
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You can find the 1700 page search warrant here - https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/read-roger-stone-warrants/index.html
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BTW, per judeg'e order from February, Roger Stone is supposed to report to prison by April 30th -- anyone heard anything??
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Roger Stone search warrants reveal new clues -- and mysteries -- about 2016 (Original Post)
iluvtennis
Apr 2020
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And, this is just the stooge who got caught. The Turkish thing is pretty bad.
Baked Potato
Apr 2020
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Blue Owl
(50,347 posts)1. Leave no stone unturned
This fuck was helping Golfcart von Bodybags cheat to win
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)3. And, this is just the stooge who got caught. The Turkish thing is pretty bad.