Trump associate Roger Stone reveals new contact with Russian national during 2016 campaign

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

MIAMI — One day in late May 2016, Roger Stone — the political dark sorcerer and longtime confidant of Donald Trump — slipped into his Jaguar and headed out to meet a man with a Make America Great Again hat and a viscous Russian accent.

The man, who called himself Henry Greenberg, offered damaging information about Hillary Clinton, Trump’s presumptive Democratic opponent in the upcoming presidential election, according to Stone who spoke about the previously unreported incident in interviews with The Washington Post. Greenberg, who did not reveal the information he claimed to possess, wanted Trump to pay $2 million for the political dirt, Stone said.

“You don’t understand Donald Trump,” Stone recalled saying before rejecting the offer at a restaurant in the Russian-expat magnet of Sunny Isles, Fla. “He doesn’t pay for anything.”

Later, Stone got a text message from Michael Caputo, a Trump campaign communications official who’d arranged the meeting after Greenberg had approached Caputo’s Russian-immigrant business partner. “How crazy is the Russian?” Caputo wrote according to a text message reviewed by The Post. Noting that Greenberg wanted “big” money, Stone replied: “waste of time.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-associate-roger-stone-reveals-new-contact-with-russian-national-during-2016-campaign/2018/06/17/4a8123c8-6fd0-11e8-bd50-b80389a4e569_story.html

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[pnwmom]

1. This is self-serving. He's getting out ahead of a story. "He doesn't pay for anything." Yeah, right.

He might not pay for anything IN CASH.

He only wants to pay IN KIND. "He doesn't pay for anything. But perhaps we can make some .. . . arrangement."

(If cash is required, however, there's always some anonymous LLC or whatever, with someone else's name on the masthead.)

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Bingo!

He obviously knows the evidence is out there and he's trying to spin it.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Once everyone figures out the way to success is to never "pay for anything"

it's going to go crazy out there.

[Botany]

4. 2 things

a) Stone knows an indictment is coming w/his name on it.

2) As already noted by pnwmom Stone is trying to get "out in
front" of the story.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. Get Stone out of the Jaguar and into an orange jumpsuit. n/t

...........

[WheelWalker]

6. Perhaps "a waste of time" because

the campaign was already hooked up with Russians giving them dirt on HRC?

[Scarsdale]

7. tRump paid

for Stormy Daniels! Wasn't Stone aware of the tRump children's charities, which were really just a slush fund for the family???

[Igel]

8. "Viscous"?

I assume that some phone synonym app said that was a good synonym for "thick."

Meaning that the writer was apparently viscous headed.

The editor, of course, should have viscously covered this bit of writing with corrections.

Perhaps the editor had a heavy lunch and had a viscous layer of meat on his sandwich. Or perhaps he's just really good friends with the writer, viscous as thieves.

[DeminPennswoods]

9. Just more evidence Trump/campaign/associates

were happy to meet (and conspire) with anyone offering dirt on Clinton.

[DeminPennswoods]

10. Caputo was just on Hardball and lied

his a$$ off, but Matthews called him out.