Jerome Corsi says himself that he expects to be indicted for perjury, then Roger Stone tells Ingraham that the SC is 'forcing Corsi to make false statements @ me'..they're both such liars/att'n whores that until the p/w drops in court I'm not buying it. ENOUGH speculation!
2/Any associate of either Jerome Corsi or Roger Stone is about as credible as those two clowns are..so if one is saying that Corsi is negotiating w Mueller for a plea agreement, again, I'll believe it when I see it. This could well be Trump diversion.
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3/ I hope that this is true, but his atty has declined to comment. I am highly skeptical about this guy. But here's the story. washingtonpost.com/politics/stone…
4/"Conservative writer and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi is in plea negotiations with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, according to Corsi and another person with knowledge of the talks. The talks with Corsi — an associate of President Trump and GOP operative Roger Stone
5/"could bring Mueller’s team closer to determining whether Trump or his advisers were linked to WikiLeaks’ release of hacked Democratic emails in 2016, a key part of his long-running inquiry. Corsi provided research on Democratic figures during the campaign to Stone, a longtime
6/"Trump adviser. For months, the special counsel has been scrutinizing Stone’s activities in an effort to determine whether he coordinated with WikiLeaks. Stone and WikiLeaks have repeatedly denied any such coordination. Stone has said that Corsi also has a relationship with
7/"Trump, built on their shared interest in the falsehood that President Barack Obama was not born in the United States. Corsi confirmed the plea negotiations after they were first reported by The Washington Post Friday. “It’s true. Your story is accurate,” he said, declining to
8/"comment further except to say there may be further developments next week. David Gray, an attorney for Corsi, declined to comment, as did a spokesman for Mueller. An attorney for Trump declined to comment. Stone said in a statement that he was not aware of any plea discussions
9/"involving Corsi, describing him as an investigative journalist “whose activities I would think would largely be covered under the First Amendment.” The deal is not yet complete and could still be derailed. Last week, Corsi said his efforts to cooperate with prosecutors had
10/"broken down and that he expected to be indicted on a charge of allegedly lying. He described feeling under enormous pressure from Mueller and assured his supporters that he remains supportive of the president. In a webcast and a series of interviews, Corsi said he had spoken
11/"to prosecutors for 40 hours and feared that he could spend much of the remainder of his life in prison. After two months of interviews, Corsi, 72, said he felt his brain was “mush.” “Trying to explain yourself to these people is impossible . . . I guess I couldn’t tell the
12/"special prosecutor what he wanted to hear,” he added. At that time, he gave no indication that he intended to plead guilty, instead casting himself as an unfairly targeted victim of a Mueller campaign against Trump. Then, Corsi abruptly fell silent, canceling a scheduled
13/"Nov. 13 interview with NBC. Gray, his attorney, told NBC that he had just spoken to the special counsel’s office and had advised Corsi to cancel. Since then, Corsi has resumed talks with Mueller’s team about a possible deal that could result in him agreeing to plead guilty in
14/"exchange for leniency, according to the person familiar with the situation. Stone said in his statement Friday that “my friend Dr. Corsi has been under a tremendous amount of pressure and it is beginning to affect him profoundly. He has stated publicly that he is being asked
15/"over and over to say things he simply does not believe occurred.” It is not clear what information Corsi could leverage to get a deal with prosecutors. However, he told the Daily Caller last week that prosecutors are focused on whether he had developed a source with inside
16/"information about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s plans. Corsi said he did not have a direct source to the group. Instead, he said he developed a theory that Assange had access to hacked emails belonging to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and that WikiLeaks
17/"would release them in October 2016. He told the Daily Caller that he shared his prediction with many people, including Stone. If Mueller could prove that Corsi learned about Podesta’s emails from Assange or another person in contact with him, he could try to link WikiLeaks’
18/"releases to Stone or others in Trump’s world. Stone told the publication that Corsi never relayed such information. “He never told me that he had figured out or believed that John Podesta’s emails had been stolen,” Stone said. On Aug. 21, 2016, Stone tweeted “it will soon the
19/"Podesta’s time in the barrel.” He has insisted his tweet had nothing to do with any plan by WikiLeaks and that it was based on research Corsi had provided to him about work Podesta and his lobbyist brother Tony had done involving Russia. “He simply told me of their Russian
20/"business deals in banking gas and uranium,” Stone said in a text message this week to The Washington Post. “There was NO WikiLeaks context.” Stone told the House Intelligence Committee in September 2017 that his Podesta tweet was “based on a comprehensive, early August
21/"opposition research briefing provided to me by investigative journalist, Dr. Jerome Corsi, which I then asked him to memorialize in a memo that he sent me on August 31st, all of which was culled from public records. There was no need to have John Podesta’s email to learn that
22/"he and his presidential candidate were in bed with the clique around Putin.” Stone has since said that the information in the Aug. 31 memo — which he received 10 days after his now-infamous tweet — was similar to information that Corsi had relayed to him verbally before the
23/"tweet. The prediction that Corsi said he made that Assange would publish Podesta’s emails was correct: on Oct. 7, 2016, WikiLeaks began publishing 50,000 emails stolen from Podesta’s account, releasing them in batches of a few thousand at a time each day leading up to the
24/"November election. Corsi told the Daily Caller that he based his prediction on public sources of information, including the fact that Podesta was not among the Democrats whose emails had been published by WikiLeaks when the group released Democratic National Committee
25/"correspondence in July. He said he concluded that WikiLeaks must be holding back Podesta’s correspondence to make a bigger splash later in the campaign. Podesta did not work for the DNC and the emails were stolen from his private Gmail account, not an address linked to the
26/"Democratic Party. Corsi told the Daily Caller that Mueller’s prosecutors did not believe his explanation and pressed him to name his WikiLeaks source. They were especially interested, he said, in a trip he took to Italy with his wife that he said coincided with his
27/"realization about the Podesta emails. “They said they wanted me to tell the truth, but when I did tell the truth they told me it was preposterous, and they wouldn’t accept it,” Corsi said. Stone is under scrutiny because he made a series of comments during the campaign that
28/"suggested he was in contact with Assange and knew of WikiLeaks’ plans. Since then, Stone has vigorously contended that his comments were exaggerations based on public information, as well as tips from New York radio host and comedian Randy Credico. Stone has also told
29/"The Post that Corsi had a relationship with Trump and spoke directly with the Republican candidate during the campaign. Stone said the two men became friendly after Corsi published a book in 2011 advancing the false theory that
30/"Obama was not qualified to hold office because he was not born in the United States. Trump became a leading proponent of that falsehood."
~WaPo, 11/23/18 2:23pm
~WaPo, 11/23/18 2:23pm
