Roger Stone's trial starts today. He's maybe the clearest link between Trump's 2016 campaign and WikiLeaks: He repeatedly said he'd spoken to Julian Assange, and predicted it would be "Podesta's time in the barrel" months before the Podesta emails leaked.
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Stone's indictment suggests that he created a successful backchannel to WikiLeaks: He and Jerome Corsi appear to have successfully coordinated an attack on Hillary Clinton's health based on advance knowledge that WikiLeaks would dump emails on the subject. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/roger…
Not only that, it appears to show that the Trump campaign directed collusion from the highest level: According to the indictment, after WikiLeaks dumped the DNC emails, "a senior Trump campaign official *was directed*" to contact Stone about future dumps. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-s…
That "was directed" is big—only a few people on Trump's famously small campaign team would have the authority to direct a "senior Trump Campaign official." The trial may reveal who that was. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/the-s…
Stone was in contact with Trump throughout the campaign. Michael Cohen even testified that Stone called Trump, with Cohen in the room, to tell Trump what he knew about WikiLeaks. cnn.com/2019/02/27/pol…
Stone is one of the clearest examples of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. His trial may tie up some of the Mueller investigation's loose ends—or raise new questions about Russia's attack on our democracy and the Trump campaign's complicity. themoscowproject.org/dispatch/yes-m…
