It’s been just over a week since former Trump campaign aide Sam Nunberg conducted a mad scramble across America’s newsrooms going from newspaper to television and back again. And again. There may or may not have been chemical propellants involved in Nunberg’s flight across the public stage, but he made no secret about the reason for his panic—he was sure that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is out to get his friend and mentor Roger Stone. While Nunberg started the evening claiming that Stone had done something wrong, eventually he let slip that Stone “might have lied.”
And it seems clear that Roger Stone did lie. Often. About something that actually means more than it may seem.
Stone, an informal adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump, said he had learned from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that his organization had obtained emails that would torment senior Democrats such as John Podesta, then campaign chairman for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The timing on this is interesting.
The hack of Podesta’s emails itself began only in mid-March 2016. Russian hackers were allegedly still breaking into the DNC’s network that April. The suggestion, then, is that Stone may have known about the hacked information shortly after it was hacked — which would raise questions about how rapidly the information was transferred from the hackers to WikiLeaks.
And of course, there is a Trump connection that already had that early knowledge. Because that was just at the time when the Russians approached George Papadopoulos, and Papadopoulos took that information back to the Trump campaign.
This more than suggests that Stone’s contact with Assange was prompted by the Trump campaign. Which would make this particularly interesting to Mueller, and make Stone’s lies about the matter a direct cover-up of collusion within the Trump campaign.
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