Jerome Corsi claims he is about to be indicted for perjury

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Ken Dilanian
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BREAKING: Roger Stone pal Jerome Corsi tells my colleague @annaschecter that Mueller's investigators informed Corsi about a week ago he will be indicted for perjury. "When they have your emails and phone records...they're very good at the perjury trap," he says.
3:45 PM - 12 Nov 2018

UPDATE: For extra drama, he's livestreaming about it right now!

[GoCubsGo]

1. Good!

Hope he takes his buddy, Roger, down with him. Fucking fuckers.

[brooklynite]

2. If only there was someone he could flip on...

[get the red out]

3. Only because

He is a lying SOB. Has this guy ever told the truth about anything? Maybe about impending indictment, I'll give him that.

[gratuitous]

4. If you've done nothing wrong, why would you commit perjury?

Couldn't happen to a nicer creep.

[blitzen]

5. How to evade a "perjury trap": Don't F-ing lie to prosecutors! n/t

[Adrahil]

7. "perjury trap"

in this case means getting caught in a lie.

Hey, it's not a trap. Just tell the truth.

[manor321]

8. Do investigators tell people ahead of time that they will be indicted?

[riversedge]

11. I thought the same just as I read this now. Was trying to remember is others indicted by

Mueller knew ahead of time ??? I think not.

[Kaleva]

16. Weren't Manafort and Cohen informed ahead of time?

Manafort was told weeks before he was actually arrested.

[Roland99]

9. It's not a perjury trap if you tell the TRUTH!!

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13. not technically true.

a perjury trap is when a prosecutor asks questions with the sole intention of trying to get the person to commit perjury.

in order not to be a perjury trap, the prosecutor needs to have a legitimate reason for asking the question, such as to gain additional evidence to support a reasonable charge against the person being asked the question or against someone else where the person being asked the question may reasonably be a witness or have material evidence.

whether or not it *is* a perjury trap has nothing to do with whether or not the person tells the truth.

*if* it's a perjury trap, then the person can avoid the trap by simply answering truthfully, of course. but it's still a perjury trap even if the person tells the truth.


in this case, however, i very much doubt mueller has no reasonable legal basis to ask the questions he's asking. mueller is doing everything very carefully and methodically, if very unlikely, imho, to ask any questions without proper foundation.

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10. that sound damn close to a confession, lol!

how can they be "very good at the perjury trap" if you tell the truth?

perhaps he can claim "perjury trap" as a legal defense, that remains to be seen.

but it certainly doesn't sound like his defense is going to be "but i told the truth".

[hlthe2b]

12. Somewhere, Hillary and Bill ought to be getting a tiny schadenfreude-induced smile.

[blogslut]

14. You know, there's a legit real possibility Corsi is making shit up.

It's kind of his thing.

[kskiska]

15. Long overdue.

Among other things he engineered the entire Swift Boat scam against John Kerry, trashing his service in Vietnam.

[Sneederbunk]

17. Hard to believe Corsi would say anything false.

[blogslut]

18. Yeah, that's something to consider

I noted that above.

[UTUSN]

19. K&R