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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/10/roger-stone-trump-confidant-acknowledges-innocuous/Roger Stone, President Trumps former campaign advisor, engaged privately last year with a persona involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee, he told The Washington Times Friday, but insisted the conversations were completely innocuous.
It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it, the political consultant told The Times on Friday with respect to a private Twitter exchange he had with Guccifer 2.0, a pseudonymous entity explicitly tied to the DNC hack.
Guccifer 2.0 appeared last summer shortly after it was revealed that the DNCs computer network had been breached by hackers. The self-described Romanian hacktivist claimed in a June 15 blog post that he had compromised the DNC not Russian hackers, as experts had indicated and said he had supplied WikiLeaks with a trove of documents ultimately published by the antisecrecy website the following month.
Mr. Stone wrote an article for Breitbart News on Aug. 5 attributing the DNC breach to Guccifer 2.0, not Russia, and swapped a handful of direct messages with the persona in the weeks that followed, according to copies of the conversations provided to the Times.
In one of the messages dated Aug. 14, Mr. Stone said he was delighted that Twitter had reinstated Guccifer 2.0s account following a brief suspension. Two days later, Mr. Stone again privately messaged the Twitter account and asked for it to retweet a column he had written about the prospects of the 2016 presidential election being rigged.
wcmagumba
(2,891 posts)dem4decades
(11,304 posts)very one is innocent just ask them.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)dem4decades
(11,304 posts)it." Sorry about the confusion.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)IOW "I'm going to jail and I know it"
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)It implicates trump's campaign, and therefore Trump, as being in direct contact with both the Russian diplomat who wanted the party platform changed and the Russian hacker who rigged the election, connecting the campaign to both sides of the conspiracy and making it nearly impossible for the campaign to argue that it wasnt a quid pro quo arrangement.
Roger Stone was a Trump campaign adviser, and Trump and Stone are close friends going back decades, making it nearly impossible for Trump to claim that he didnt know about the Russian plot his campaign was carrying out.
Gonna be fun to watch Rachel thread this needle....
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)in order to make an airtight case.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)Hope they decide to do something soon.
uponit7771
(90,363 posts)Initech
(100,100 posts)What's that spell? Coup!
What's that spell? Coup!
What's that spell? Coup!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)as the stock market up - nothing will change. No one will be indicted. We have got to get
half the Republicans to care. Then us couping our brains out will have helped.
UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)There has to be a Special prosecutor with subpoena powers appointed to investigate Trump's administration Russian Spy contacts.
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties