Perhaps a Friday indictment dump is coming. If so, Roger Stone is high on the list, if only because he might be the only person remaining in his circle not to have spoken with Mueller.
And now a Ronan Farrow story will claim that Stone told Trump about the WikiLeaks dump in advance.
If a plea is even being negotiated, we wouldn’t know early as Mueller has exercised leak discipline, so Stone is trying to get some money for his legal defense, regardless.
In the larger #TrumpRussia scheme, Stone would probably not give Trump up so his usefulness might actually be limited to making clear, under oath, parts of the knowledge and timeline for the WikiLeaks episode of Biglygate.
Mueller already has the receipts on the GRU side from his 12 indictments, so Stone’s lies would be part of an obstruction beef.
Stone will remain as he’s always been, a sideshow, and more likely a dupe of Russian interests.
Stone could give so much more on Trump and Manafort since that is his disinformational stock in trade. However dope on the First Dope, especially from a known disinformer has less HUMINT value.
Indeed, Stone is doing a very Roger Stone media-framing move to preempt the Ronan Farrow article.
Questions have long swirled about Stone's possible interactions with WikiLeaks and hacker Guccifer 2.0 during the 2016 election campaign, when both entities were releasing Democratic emails that had been hacked by Russian intelligence agents. U.S. officials have said that WikiLeaks was acting as an agent of Russia, and Mueller has labeled Guccifer 2.0 a Russian intelligence front.
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He is perhaps not the most reliable narrator of his own conduct during the Trump campaign, or what government investigators are up to. After denying that he ever met with a Russian during the campaign, it emerged that he flew to Florida in May 2016 to meet a Russian man offering to sell dirt on Hillary Clinton. Stone later admitted the meeting and said he simply forgot about it.
Stone also says twice in the letter that former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen has "flipped" and is cooperating with prosecutors. In fact. Cohen has pleaded guilty but has not signed a formal cooperation agreement. One of his lawyers, Lanny Davis, has said in television interviews that Cohen wants to help prosecutors, but whether that will happen or has happened remains unclear. Stone ends the letter by saying that "this witch hunt threatens to break me financially. Leaks by the Special Counsel's office have substantially hurt my business. I am facing millions in attorney's fees I cannot possibly afford."
Earlier this week, Stone told a conservative web site that "the special counsel is going to charge Donald Trump Jr. with lying to the FBI." It's not clear that the president's son has been interviewed by the FBI, however.
Roger Stone says in an Instagram video that a story is coming in The New Yorker which says Stone explicitly told Trump in October 2016 that WikiLeaks had/was going to dump the Podesta emails.