THREAD: Why Roger Stone’s New Russian Contact Is a Big Deal (1/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/why-r…
Our running list of contacts between Trump-world and Russia continues to grow. The latest addition: a May 2016 meeting between Roger Stone and a Russian national offering dirt on Hillary Clinton for $2 million. (2/10) washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…
Given Trump’s recent responses, he’ll likely try to distance himself by pointing out Stone wasn’t on his campaign at the time. After all, Trump’s now claiming he barely knew Paul Manafort, who actually ran his campaign for months. (3/10) msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-…
So it’s important to remember the depth of Trump’s relationship with Stone, which predated the campaign by decades—and continued throughout the election and into Trump’s presidency. (4/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/why-r…
They've been working together since at least the 1980s, when the Trump Organization hired Stone’s firm to lobby the government on casino regulations. (5/10) slate.com/articles/news_…
According to Stone himself, he’s been pushing Trump to run for president since 1988, and even ran Trump’s short-lived 2000 run at the Reform Party nomination. (6/10) thedailybeast.com/get-me-roger-s…
Stone was only officially on the campaign through August 2015, but we know of at least six calls between the two between then and the end of the election. (7/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/why-r…
They continually coordinated for the rest of the campaign, and even kept talking into Trump’s presidency. (8/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/why-r…
Stone’s been close to Trump for decades, and has a penchant for political “dirty tricks.” We already know he talked privately with WikiLeaks, showed foreknowledge of future email dumps, and talked to an intermediary about “favors” from Assange. (9/10) wsj.com/articles/roger…
So the news that he was offered dirt on Clinton well before any of those emails dropped is so big: It’s further proof that the contact between the two campaigns was widespread, prolonged, and, most importantly, intentional. (10/10) themoscowproject.org/dispatch/why-r…
