Finally Robert S. Mueller III responds to the months of WH lying to undermine the investigation he headed & Trump's commutation of Roger Stone's sentence:
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"Stone was prosecuted and convicted because he committed federal crimes. He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so."
"Stone became a central figure in our investigation for two key reasons: He communicated in 2016 with individuals known to us to be Russian intelligence officers, and he claimed advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ release of emails stolen by those Russian intelligence officers."
"We also identified numerous links between the Russian govt & Trump campaign personnel--Stone among them...the Russian govt perceived it would benefit from a Trump presidency & worked to secure that...[&] the campaign expected it would benefit electorally from info stolen..."
"A jury later determined [Stone] lied repeatedly to...Congress..about the identity of his intermediary to WikiLeaks...about the existence of written communications with his intermediary..by denying he had communicated w/the Trump campaign about the timing of WikiLeaks’ releases."
"We made every decision in Stone’s case, as in all our cases, based solely on the facts & the law & in accordance with the rule of law. The women & men who conducted these investigations & prosecutions acted with the highest integrity. Claims to the contrary are false."
--Mueller
--Mueller
