Roger Stone long time Nixon & Trump advisor arrested and charged with 7 counts
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Indicting Roger Stone, Mueller Shows Link Between Trump Campaign and WikiLeaks
Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, has been charged as part of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller. He was arrested in a pre-dawn F.B.I. raid in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and appeared in court Friday.
By Mark Mazzetti, Eileen Sullivan and Maggie Haberman
Jan. 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, revealed on Friday the most direct link yet between the Trump campaign’s and WikiLeaks’ parallel efforts to use Democratic Party material stolen by Russians to damage the election campaign of Hillary R. Clinton.
In an indictment unsealed Friday, the special counsel disclosed evidence that a top campaign official in 2016 dispatched Roger J. Stone, a longtime adviser to President Trump, to get information from WikiLeaks about the thousands of hacked Democratic emails. The effort began well after it was widely reported that Russian intelligence operatives were behind the theft, which was part of Moscow’s broad campaign to sabotage the 2016 president election.
The indictment makes no mention of whether Mr. Trump played a role in the coordination, though Mr. Mueller did leave a curious clue about how high in the campaign the effort reached: A senior campaign official “was directed” by an unnamed person to contact Mr. Stone about additional WikiLeaks releases that might damage the Clinton campaign, according to the court document.
Mr. Stone was charged with seven counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering.
F.B.I. agents arrested him before dawn, appearing at his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home with ballistic vests and guns drawn. Agents typically use those tactics as a precaution to secure possible evidence and protect themselves in case a suspect fights arrest. F.B.I. agents were also seen carting hard drives and other evidence from Mr. Stone’s apartment in Harlem.
Mr. Stone appeared briefly in Federal District Court in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning, his ankles and waist shackled in front of a packed courtroom. Mr. Stone, known for his dapper wardrobe, was dressed simply in a navy blue cotton polo shirt, bluejeans and his trademark round, black-rimmed glasses, his demeanor flat.......
The indictment is the first in months by Mr. Mueller, who is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible coordination with Trump campaign associates. Citing details in emails and other forms of communications, the indictment suggested that Mr. Trump’s campaign knew about additional stolen emails before they were released and asked Mr. Stone to find out about them......
Indicting Roger Stone, Mueller Shows Link Between Trump Campaign and WikiLeaks
Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime Trump adviser, has been charged as part of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller. He was arrested in a pre-dawn F.B.I. raid in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and appeared in court Friday.
By Mark Mazzetti, Eileen Sullivan and Maggie Haberman
Jan. 25, 2019
WASHINGTON — The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, revealed on Friday the most direct link yet between the Trump campaign’s and WikiLeaks’ parallel efforts to use Democratic Party material stolen by Russians to damage the election campaign of Hillary R. Clinton.
In an indictment unsealed Friday, the special counsel disclosed evidence that a top campaign official in 2016 dispatched Roger J. Stone, a longtime adviser to President Trump, to get information from WikiLeaks about the thousands of hacked Democratic emails. The effort began well after it was widely reported that Russian intelligence operatives were behind the theft, which was part of Moscow’s broad campaign to sabotage the 2016 president election.
The indictment makes no mention of whether Mr. Trump played a role in the coordination, though Mr. Mueller did leave a curious clue about how high in the campaign the effort reached: A senior campaign official “was directed” by an unnamed person to contact Mr. Stone about additional WikiLeaks releases that might damage the Clinton campaign, according to the court document.
Mr. Stone was charged with seven counts, including obstruction of an official proceeding, making false statements and witness tampering.
F.B.I. agents arrested him before dawn, appearing at his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home with ballistic vests and guns drawn. Agents typically use those tactics as a precaution to secure possible evidence and protect themselves in case a suspect fights arrest. F.B.I. agents were also seen carting hard drives and other evidence from Mr. Stone’s apartment in Harlem.
Mr. Stone appeared briefly in Federal District Court in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning, his ankles and waist shackled in front of a packed courtroom. Mr. Stone, known for his dapper wardrobe, was dressed simply in a navy blue cotton polo shirt, bluejeans and his trademark round, black-rimmed glasses, his demeanor flat.......
The indictment is the first in months by Mr. Mueller, who is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and possible coordination with Trump campaign associates. Citing details in emails and other forms of communications, the indictment suggested that Mr. Trump’s campaign knew about additional stolen emails before they were released and asked Mr. Stone to find out about them......
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I got that part already but I just don't understand of why Trump did so just for a short time.It resembles the part of lets make a deal kinda thingy.
Today Roger Stone is indicted.
Immediately afterward Trump temporarily ends the longest US government shutdown in history
(to draw attention away from the indictment).
Purely coincidence ? I think not.
It means he will hold his breath until federal employees, and collaterally the rest of us, all turn blue. Makes you wonder if very many of the people in Congress ever had to raise kids, or if they remember doing it.
Trump have some great followers.
He gives away with one hand and receives twice as much in the other.
If that had been Obama, the rebublicans would have created a typical tendentious apocalypse.
another covfefe boy.
What about Donald Trump’s longest-serving political advisor, Roger Stone, having been indicted by Special Counsel Mueller for Obstruction, Witness Tampering and Lying about Trump org, campaign, and office of potus to cover Trump's efforts to obtain Hillary Clinton information from Russia. That what..
From CBS News;
CBS News January 27, 2019, 7:22 PM
Roger Stone leaves door open to cooperation with special counsel
Last Updated Jan 27, 2019 9:33 PM EST
Roger Stone, the former Trump adviser indicted for allegedly lying to Congress, continued to insist he's innocent Sunday. He's the sixth associate of President Trump to be charged in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, and is set to appear in federal court Tuesday.
Stone spoke to CBS News justice and homeland security correspondent Jeff Pegues at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and left open the possibility he might be willing to cooperate with Mueller's investigators.....
Trump accepts Pelosi's invitation to deliver State of the Union on Feb. 5
The president's speech to Congress, originally scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 29, was delayed due to the government shutdown
Accurate statement = Trump is the latent emergence of the demagoguery seeds that Cohn planted.
Thanks for posting the video, which can help others understand.