By RICH LOWRY
January 26, 2019 7:06 PM

The Stone indictment reads about how you’d expect given how Roger Stone has always operated. There’s the nose for political dirt ... There’s the over-inflation of his own role ... There’s the acting out of a Nixon fantasy ... His indictment is the latest comeuppance of someone whose sleazy MO couldn’t withstand ... a federal criminal probe.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/roger-stone-got-busted-for-being-roger-stone/

I suppose the truth is far more damning than any lies Roger might be able to tell.

CBS NEWS January 26, 2019, 6:33 PM

... "Those two assertions regarding Campaign Official 1 and Campaign Official 2 are incorrect. They are false. Now that doesn't mean that the special counsel can't induce somebody to say that, but they would be people who are easily impeachable, because they were either seeking a reduction in their sentence or because they have an ax to grind against me. This will all come out at trial" ...

Mr. Trump did not answer questions about Stone on Friday ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/roger-stone-interview-talks-fbi-raid-indictment-president-trump/

Ryan Goodman ... So he had formally left the campaign months earlier but it seems apparent that the special counsel knows that he was in regular communication with senior campaign officials and then on a specific mission to get information about if not actually get the stolen e-mail documents that Wikileaks had. So that changes the complexion of our understanding in some respects of the rush investigation because if Roger Stone is acting essentially as an agent of the Trump campaign it can implicate the campaign itself legally ... I think he's in a world of trouble so much so that I think he might have to very seriously think about pleading and cooperating. You know just one example of it is that apparently on the very day that he tells Congress that he has no text messages or e-mails with Person 2 he has 30 text messages that day according to the indictment with person number two. It's pretty clear and that's devastating. So I don't really understand what his game is at this point except for this ... wild card of a potential pardon ... Mueller might have much bigger revelations in store what several former federal prosecutors have said is he could have actually charged conspiracy to coordinate campaign messaging with WikiLeaks. Roger Stone Actually doesn't just say he wants to get information from WikiLeaks but he actually wants to get the documents with Person number one he says get the stolen e-mails with person number two. He sends a very specific document requests he wants WikiLeaks to give them a document section on Hillary Clinton when she is serving as secretary of state and her policy over Libya. That could be charged as a federal election campaign law violations soliciting something of value from a foreign national ...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-roger-stones-indictment-could-mean-for-trump

By DENIS SLATTERY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
JAN 26, 2019 | 6:00 PM

... Trump tweeted only twice on Friday ...

He made up for his relative Twitter silence Saturday by blasting out a list of former government officials that he has attacked in the past ...

The tweets at least diverted attention from Trump’s bad news Friday. “This is what he’s going to try to do, distract,” one Washington insider said ...

... on Saturday ... His ire over Stone’s arrest led him to return to a favorite topic: Hillary Clinton’s emails ...

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-roger-stone-arrest-trump-reaction-20190126-story.html

by Tamar Auber | Jan 26th, 2019, 7:15 pm

On Saturday, CNN’s S.E. Cupp weighed in on the Roger Stone arrest and his decision to go on a mini-media tour that very same day ...

“There’s a 100% chance in your mind that nobody can offer any compelling credible proof that Donald Trump knew about your efforts to get to Wikileaks?” Cuomo asked in the clip.

Stone replied, “Nobody can supply any corroborating truth. People can have their testimony composed, particularly if they are looking for a reduction to their sentence, but there is no proof here” ...

“People can lie seems like an odd defense to lying,” Cupp noted ...

https://www.mediaite.com/tv/s-e-cupp-rips-roger-stone-people-can-lie-seems-like-an-odd-defense-to-lying/