Mueller tells judge of new Roger Stone post on Instagram
Source: Politico
03/04/2019 06:02 PM EST
Roger Stone is under fire for possible violations of his court-imposed gag order after a weekend social media post suggested he’d been “framed” in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and ahead of the imminent re-release of a book he co-wrote that explores the “myth of Russian collusion.”
The longtime Donald Trump associate remains under a Feb. 21 order from U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson that bans him from making public comments of any kind about his upcoming criminal trial on charges of lying to Congress and obstructing lawmakers’ Russia probe.
But Stone on several recent occasions has already tested the limits of the gag order — which did allow him to continue speaking about matters unrelated to the Russia investigation, and also to make statements to raise money for his legal defense fund and to explain in simple terms that he had entered a plea of not guilty...................................
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The special counsel’s office took no other position on the post, which was made on the same social media platform as a controversial image that landed Stone in trouble last month because it featured Jackson with what appeared to be a gun’s crosshairs above her head. Stone deleted that image and replaced it with one without the crosshairs. He then later deleted that second Instagram post.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/04/mueller-roger-stone-post-instagram-1202919
oh oh, Roger is in trouble!
In a filing, Robert Mueller’s office pointed to public reporting that Roger Stone on Sunday had posted an image to his Instagram account with the words “who framed Roger Stone.” | Mark Wilson/Getty Images
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They also submitted a declaration from Stone’s publisher stating that the book was already on retailers’ bookshelves in early February and had sold 96 copies as of Feb. 16
Amazon ranks The Myth of Russian Collusion as their 24,735 best selling book, but pre-orders for The Mueller Report: The Final Report of the Special Counsel into Donald Trump, Russia, and Collusion is currently at #688.
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