Thread by @SethAbramson

WP (below): The FIRST KNOWN Stone revelation to a US person that WikiLeaks had stolen emails was SPRING 2016.

MUELLER: Stone revealed to a US person WikiLeaks had stolen emails IN OR AROUND JUNE AND JULY 2016.

Do we KNOW these are the same conversations?
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2/ Mueller's "in or around June and July 2016" certainly COULD include "spring" dates, but nothing in the Mueller indictment confirms for us that these two events are the same event. The hack occurred on March 21, 2016; Manafort (per THE GUARDIAN) visited Assange in "March 2016."

3/ I guess what I'm asking is, how we do know Manafort didn't learn from Assange that the emails had been stolen when/if he met him in March 2016, immediately tell his old business partner Stone, and then Stone told someone (WP) in "spring 2016"...perhaps long *before* June/July?

4/ In other words, if Stone was trying to get Manafort hired by Trump in March 2016; and if Manafort met Assange in March 2016; and if the hack occurred in March 2016; how do we know Trump didn't hire Manafort precisely *because* he had a lead on "Hillary's emails" via WikiLeaks?

5/ I'm not saying this did or didn't happen; I just want to confirm we have no evidence yet on whether this is/isn't what happened. Because if it did happen, it would certainly fit with what we know about the Stone/Manafort relationship and the strange story of Manafort's hiring.