Roger Stone Sought WikiLeaks’ Plans Amid 2016 Campaign, Associate Says

New York Times ^ | November 27, 2018 | Sharon LaFraniere and Maggie Haberman

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An associate of the former Trump campaign adviser Roger J. Stone Jr. released documents on Tuesday showing that as the presidential campaign heated up in the summer of 2016, Mr. Stone tried to dispatch him to find out what information WikiLeaks had that could prove damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

Mr. Corsi’s dealings with Mr. Mueller’s prosecutors have caused alarm among the president’s legal team, who were informed of developments by Mr. Corsi’s lawyer. President Trump’s lawyers were especially troubled by a draft statement of offense against Mr. Corsi that was passed on to them, according to people familiar with the situation. In it, prosecutors claimed that Mr. Corsi understood that Mr. Stone was “in regular contact with senior members of the Trump campaign, including with then-candidate Donald J. Trump” when he asked Mr. Corsi in late July 2016 to “get to” Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks.

He said prosecutors are especially interested in an email he sent to Mr. Stone on Aug. 2, 2016, saying “Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps,” he wrote. “Impact planned to be very damaging.” He said he was referring to Mr. Assange, who has lived in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for years, but that he was merely speculating about what WikiLeaks had planned and had no inside information.

He said that prosecutors are wrongly accusing him of lying to them about that message and others when he is guilty of no more than a faulty memory.

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Such a ridiculous non-issue. Does anyone really think that Hillary wouldn’t have been moving heaven and earth to get wiki leaks dirt if they had Trumps emails...or tax returns?

Sometimes I just want to scream.