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Good Question:
by Adam Sever, The Atlantic — Mar 5, 2018
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“I’m not going to cooperate! Why do I have to spend 80 hours going over my emails that I’ve had with Steve Bannon and with Roger Stone?” Nunberg asked NBC News reporter Katy Tur on Monday afternoon. “Why does Bob Mueller need to see my emails when I send Roger and Steve clips and we talk about how much we hate people?”
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Former Trump aide says he's refusing Mueller subpoena: 'Screw that'
Protecting Stone
Nunberg said he was refusing to cooperate with the subpoena because he believes investigators are trying to get him to impugn controversial Trump ally Roger Stone, who Nunberg called his mentor.
"They want me to testify against Roger," Nunberg said. "They want me to say that Roger was going around telling people he was colluding with Julian Assange."
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No worries Sam, you see Roger has already made those self-incriminating statements himself, contemporaneously, back at the height of ‘Dirt for SOS Vetoes’ , et. al. transactions.
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Here are some of those already “public domain” Roger Stone facts … Nunberg. So don’t be such a Trump-Toadie martyr, already.
Fact 1) Trump’s former Campaign advisor admitted to and wrote about personally talking with the source of the DCN hacks — WHILE the leaking of the private campaign data to WikiLeaks was still on-going.
by Andrew Blake — The Washington Times, March 10, 2017
Roger Stone, President Trump’s former campaign advisor, engaged privately last year with a persona involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee, he told The Washington Times Friday, but insisted the conversations were “completely innocuous.”
“It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it,” the political consultant told The Times on Friday with respect to a private Twitter exchange he had with “Guccifer 2.0,” a pseudonymous entity explicitly tied to the DNC hack.
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Mr. Stone wrote an article for Breitbart News on Aug. 5 attributing the DNC breach to Guccifer 2.0, not Russia, and swapped a handful of direct messages with the persona in the weeks that followed, according to copies of the conversations provided to the Times.
In one of the messages dated Aug. 14, Mr. Stone said he was “delighted” that Twitter had reinstated Guccifer 2.0’s account following a brief suspension. [...]
Fact 2) Trump’s former Campaign advisor Roger Stone recently went so far as brag he had a “back channel” to WikiLeaks — before thinking twice it, and trying to delete the post.
Fact 3) There is no “permanent Delete Key” in cyberspace. Ooops!
by Julian Borger in Washington, TheGuardian — 7 March 2017
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Roger Stone, a former Trump adviser, wrote on Saturday night that he had a “perfectly legal back channel” to WikiLeaks’ founder, Julian Assange. Stone then deleted the message.
In early January, the CIA, National Security Administration (NSA) and FBI assessed with “high confidence” that Russian military intelligence was behind the anonymous hackers Guccifer 2.0 and DCLeaks.com, which stole data from prominent Democrats and passed it on to WikiLeaks.
“Moscow most likely chose WikiLeaks because of its self-proclaimed reputation for authenticity. Disclosures through WikiLeaks did not contain any evident forgeries,” the agencies found.
Fact 4) Despite Stone’s alibi that he thought the source of the DCN hacks, was some random hacker (going by the name of Guccifer 2.0) — the CIA, the NSA, and the FBI found otherwise.
Fact 5) The CIA, the NSA, and the FBI found with “high confidence” that Guccifer 2.0 was really just an alias-moniker for “Russian military intelligence.”
Fact 6) Roger Stone is not your average run-of-the-mill Trump advisor — turns out the pair, they go Way Back. Longer than many Marriages in fact.
by Eames Yates and Brett LoGiurato, BusinessInsider — Jan. 31, 2017
Roger Stone has been Donald Trump's friend and confidant for roughly 40 years. Stone, who's also the author of The Making of the President 2016, discusses why he thinks Washington, D.C. is in shock and explains why he supports President Trump's travel ban on seven predominantly Muslim countries.
Fact 7) Roger Stone’s firing/resignation back in August of 2016 was supposedly because of “Trump’s behavior” — it had nothing to with his own revealing of “sources and methods” in his Brietbart article a few days prior (at least according to Mr Stone).
by Jim Geraghty, nationalreview.com — August 10, 2015
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On Saturday, Trump’s campaign issued a
statement saying it had fired Stone because “
Roger wanted to use the campaign for his own personal publicity.” Stone responded by showing the media his
resignation letter, which declared that “
current controversies involving personalities and provocative media fights” had
become a distraction from the campaign’s message.
It’s hard to overstate just how close Trump and Stone have been over the years. Their professional and personal relationship goes back more than three decades. Trump without Stone is akin to George W. Bush without Karl Rove or Barack Obama without David Axelrod. [...]
Twelve years later [in 2000], when Trump launched a presidential exploratory committee, Stone served as its chairman.
Fact 8) Roger Stone basically admits to be Trump’s “henchman”, his maestro of “dirty tricks”. Afterall what’s wrong with little “character destruction” by the political-operators, Trump has always relied on?
by Jason Zengerle, GQ.com —March 30, 2016
Last week, after the National Enquirer published a salacious story alleging that Ted Cruz had had at least five extramarital affairs, the Texas senator not only denied the story but singled out the person he believed was responsible for planting it: veteran Republican strategist—and on-again, off-again adviser to Donald Trump—Roger Stone.
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[According to Roger Stone himself, regarding the Ted Cruz smear story: ] Well, let me ask the most obvious question. If I were going to plant the story as a dirty trick, why would I be quoted on the record in same story? I wasn't born yesterday. Why would I leave a big old thumbprint if I was trying to do something surreptitious? [...] I think I was a convenient scapegoat. I understand the game. Ted's trying to deflect from his own potential culpability here by blaming the whole thing on Trump. And, look, I'm a brand name when it comes to dirty tricks. He called me a henchman, and I don't really object to that, but henchmen get paid, and I have been paid nothing by Trump.
Fact 9) Roger Stone, the so-called “mentor” of Sam Nunberg, knows the nitty-gritty “ins and outs” of the 2015-2016 Trump Campaign (given his Trump history, his Wikileaks exchanges, and his subsequent efforts to cover his tracks).
And mostly likely Nunberg has the emails to prove this. Mentor-to-Mentee “life lessons” stuff.
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by Kevin Johnson and David Jackson, USA TODAY — Mar 5, 2018
Asked if he was ready to face possible contempt charges for refusing to cooperate, Nunberg told the network: "I think it would be funny if they arrested me."
In a later interview on CNN, Nunberg said former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page may have colluded with the Russians.
Stone is a longtime Trump adviser who left the Trump campaign shortly after it started in June 2015, but he communicates often with the president and the White House staff.
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