Indictment could be 'ominous' sign for Trump

by Leandra Bernstein
Friday, January 25th 2019

WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — Roger Stone, a former Donald Trump presidential campaign adviser and self-described "dirty trickster," appeared in federal court Friday afternoon flashing a double "V"-sign to the cameras, in imitation of his political icon Richard Nixon ...

Stone offered unnamed Trump campaign associates information about WikiLeaks intent to release a batch of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's emails on Oct. 7, 2016, the indictment reported. When the emails were released on that date, Stone took credit for the accurate prediction. An unnamed associate of a high-ranking Trump campaign official sent Stone a text message after the emails were published that read, "well done" ...

Though Roger Stone publicly bragged about his "back-channel communications" with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the story began to change after U.S. intelligence agencies implicated WikiLeaks in Russia's hacking of the Democratic National Committee's email server and theft of thousands of emails. The story changed even more dramatically during his September 2017 testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).

According to the 23-page indictment, Stone lied repeatedly to congressional investigators and denied any attempt to contact WikiLeaks through an intermediary. Stone also allegedly threatened a witness, believed to be comedian and radio host Randy Credico, and attempted to persuade him to give false testimony to Congress ...

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