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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 07:16 PM Oct 2018

Mueller's team asking Manafort about Roger Stone

Source: The Hill

Special counsel Robert Mueller's team has been asking former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort about his former business partner Roger Stone, according to ABC News.

Mueller in recent months has interviewed multiple people linked to Stone, a former Trump campaign adviser. Some of those people have also testified before the grand jury.

"I am highly confident Mr. Manafort is aware of no wrong doing on my part during the 2016 campaign, or at any other time, and therefore there is no wrongdoing to know about,” Stone told ABC News. “Narratives to the contrary by some in the media are false and defamatory."

Manafort and his lawyers have visited Mueller's office at least nine times in the last four weeks, CNN reported on Wednesday.

Mueller is reportedly investigating whether Stone knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks was planning to release Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's emails, which were stolen by Russian hackers, ABC News reported.

Stone at the time made public comments that indicated he had been in touch with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange about the release of Clinton's emails.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/411960-muellers-team-asking-manafort-about-roger-stone-report?__twitter_impression=true

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Bfd

(1,406 posts)
2. Hope that fker goes down and hard. Stone has been a menace to our political structure for many years
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 07:24 PM
Oct 2018

He's a crooked weasel that better live out his days in prison.
He deserves nothing more.

asiliveandbreathe

(8,203 posts)
3. I really don't give a rats arse about what happens to Stone...he is a POS....for
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 07:32 PM
Oct 2018

all intents and purposes...my take on stories like this - who, what, where, when and how is this information being divulged...Mueller and co. are very careful..I have grown so skeptical of any story that doesn't come from the horses mouth....

redstateblues

(10,565 posts)
5. I believe that Stone is the Wikileaks connections to Trump's campaign.
Wed Oct 17, 2018, 08:36 PM
Oct 2018

Perhaps that's why Mueller is waiting to interview him and Don Jr til the end

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