Seth Abramson on WAPost's story about Roger Stone "forgetting" meeting with another Russian.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1008356718697381890.html


2/ THREE QUESTIONS:

1. Were there 2 men at the meeting or 3? If 3, why did Stone lie? Who was the third person?

2. Why did both Caputo *and* Stone forget the same clandestine Russian contact in their testimony?

3. Stone said Trump never pays *money*. So what *did* Trump offer?

3/ No one has ever alleged Trump offered money to anyone for Russian assistance, so that part of the story is immaterial. In *every* instance the allegation is that Trump was offering favorable Russia policy to the Kremlin, i.e. unilateral sanctions relief benefiting only Russia.

4/ If in fact Stone talked to a third person rather than "Greenberg," it means he's still lying about what happened even after lying about it to both Congress and the press. That means that the person he met with is *not* who Greenberg claims and someone more connected to Russia.

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6/ Investigators have one (perhaps muted) reaction if two unrelated people forget two unrelated, relatively unimportant things. When two *related* people (here, Mssrs. Stone and Caputo) forget the *same* very *big* thing, investigators understandably are *very* suspicious indeed.

7/ The FBI angle is a red herring. Remember that Trump *advisers* Sater and Page had *both* previously worked as FBI informants. So "Greenberg" having previously worked as an informant simply confirms that many people around Trump had been involved in bad sh*t at various points.

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