They thought Trump getting extra dessert was the last straw that would get him impeached or removed by the 25th Amendment or somehow make Hillary president. I imagine they are thrilled to hear something even bigger today.
Posted on 11/01/2018 1:16:51 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Steve Bannon and two other former senior Trump campaign staffers have told members of special counsel Robert Mueller’s team that Roger Stone, an informal adviser to Trump, cast himself as a way for the campaign to obtain information from WikiLeaks, The New York Times reported Thursday.
Bannon reportedly spoke with members of Mueller's team on Friday, his third interview with the special counsel, according to multiple media reports.
Bannon and the other former Trump campaign officials were reportedly pressed on Stone's statements about WikiLeaks, and told investigators working for Mueller that Stone gave the impression that he had a direct line to the group, according to The Times.
Stone had claimed to have prior knowledge that the organization would release documents damaging to Hillary Clinton ahead of the 2016 presidential election, and one former Trump campaign official told Mueller's team that he appeared to take credit for the timing of the document's release, the newspaper reported.
WikiLeaks published emails hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in the weeks leading up to the election. Those emails were later revealed to have been obtained by Russian operatives, and Mueller earlier this year indicted 12 Russian military officers on charges related to the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).
Stone also appeared to want to share information about the hacked emails with Bannon before they were publicly shared, according to emails obtained and published by The Times on Thursday.
On Oct. 3, 2016, Breitbart News’ Washington editor Matthew Boyle emailed Stone about a press conference WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was set to hold the next day, during which Assange promised to release a new trove of documents.
Stone replied to Boyle that same day, saying that he would tell Bannon — then the head of Breitbart — about the contents of the documents but “he doesn’t call me back.”
Boyle then forwarded the correspondence to Bannon, telling him that he “should call Roger” and that he didn’t get the information “from me.”
“I’ve got important stuff to worry about,” Bannon replied.
“Well clearly he knows what Assange has,” Boyle wrote back. “I’d say that’s important.”
Assange held his conference the next morning, announcing that he planned to release “significant material” each week for the coming months, some of which was related to the U.S. presidential election.
The Times also obtained an email Bannon sent to Stone after Assange’s press conference, asking “What was that this morning???”
Stone replied the same day saying that Assange has a “serious security concern.”
“He thinks they are going to kill him and the London police are standing done,” Stone wrote.
“However —a load every week going forward,” he added.
“He didn’t cut deal w/ clintons???” Bannon asked.
Stone has denied having inside knowledge of WikiLeaks' actions, and has instead claimed that New York comedian and former radio host Randy Credico was his source. Credico has testified before Mueller's grand jury about Stone.
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If Mueller can tie Stone to Wikileaks he can tie Trump to a 'collusion' narrative.
Who gives a ####?
It won’t stand up in a court and it’s too nonsensical for 2/3 of the senate to kick a president out over.
I worried about this bull sh.t for a year.
i’m done worrying
i’ll leave it to you and others
Mueller is going to have to make up some more laws here.
Ah, good to see Mueller’s leakers have their October surprise cooked up just in time to interfere with the election.
Have been waiting. Mueller must be pretty mad that the other side sand bagged him with the rape allegation, distracted him.
WikiLeaks published emails hacked from Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta in the weeks leading up to the election.
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Never anything to do with Russia. It’s always been about revenge for Hillary
If I’m a dem, I’m thinking “Please tell me you have something better than this!”
Mueller, Rosie, Sleepy and the Whole Bunch need to be FIRED in one week
No, yesthatjallen, he won’t be able to tie it to a collusion narrative...there is no “there” there. There is NO collusion.
And the documentation seen and investigation already taken place illustrates this to all but the most rabid and brain dead leftists. Even many in the news media know the jig is up, but will milk it for all it is worth just to generate a Two Minutes Hate as long as they can.
It is a pipe dream, and once the election is over, this is going to go one of two ways: If the Dems win, Mueller keeps going, throwing mud but finding nothing. If the Republicans win, Mueller is dead man walking.
By Dem standards, that’s not a story you can sink your teeth into. They’re not even at the Smoke & Mirrors stage just yet.
Rumor of the effects of rumors of the effect of rumors.
Yeah, it’s hilarious — Roger Stone has an inside line to Wikileaks?
Oh The Horrors.
Who doesn’t.
Stone has no clearance so he could be accused of what?
What’s the big deal? Mainstream journalists have direct pipelines to illegal leakers all the time.
They thought Trump getting extra dessert was the last straw that would get him impeached or removed by the 25th Amendment or somehow make Hillary president. I imagine they are thrilled to hear something even bigger today.
More meaningless loose associations and Stone’s hysteria.
If Mueller can't prove collusion he can at least hang a cloud of questions over Trump.
This gives the media the opportunity to keep inserting rumors into news stories about Trump.
Looks pretty weak to me. Stone trying to make himself look connected with information that was already widely known. They are trying to get Stone on a process crime, nothing more.
Okay thanks for that. So you're done running your fkn hole?
Worth watching Dershowitz on Tucker last night. The main takeaway is even IF Mueller subpoena’s Trump, Trump will launch his legal opposition to the subpoena, which could take YEARS.
LOL. There is nothing for Democrats to gain from a Subpoena.
Bingo.
Mueller’s problem with Roger Stone is that Stone is a flame-thrower and a bs artist.
Stone constantly puffs himself up as someone in the know when he most of the time is not.
Stone is a useless informant and no good as a witness because of his constant loose talk.
That’s why Mueller hasn’t had this “central” figure in front of a grand jury yet and I don’t think ever will.
Even if true, it’s not a crime to communicate with Wikileaks.
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