Former Trump adviser Roger Stone calls for investigation of alleged Russia links
Source: The Guardian
Roger Stone, a longtime adviser and confidant to Donald Trump who has been named in news reports as one of at least four individuals under FBI observation over alleged contacts with Russian intelligence, has called for an official inquiry into the swirling crisis.
Stone has called on the White House to order an immediate investigation through the Department of Justice over alleged improper links between members of the Trump inner circle and the Kremlin during the course of the 2016 presidential campaign. His request adds to a mounting chorus of demands from senior congressional members and outside advocacy groups for an official inquiry into the affair.
In an interview with the Guardian, Stone appealed to Trump, whom he has been close to for almost 40 years, to convene an inquiry through Jeff Sessions, the newly appointed US attorney general. “The president should tell his attorney general that either he finds proof of this, or he puts it to bed and announces none of it happened.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/roger-stone-trump-investigation-russia-intelligence
Stone is the last one I'd have expected to flip out of the four possibilities (Paul Manafort, Carter Page, Mike Flynn and Roger Stone.) Since any real investigation of Trump will automatically include an investigation of him as well, perhaps he expect to avoid prosecution by rolling over on the Tangerine Shitgibbon.
I'd give a lot to know what inducements were in play to cause this little development. Stone is, after all, a major dirty trickster from the Nixon days. It's not likely that he'd grow a new conscience at this point in his life.
Either that, or the fix is in and he knows Jeff Sessions will "put it to bed."
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