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pnwmom

(108,950 posts)
Thu May 30, 2019, 12:18 AM May 2019

Dear lawyers: can you help us understand whether Roger Stone has violated his gag order?

I know he's not allowed to post on certain topics in social media himself. Can he have someone else post about the investigation on Stone's website in the other person's name? Would that be equivalent to "speaking through surrogates" about the case?

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/02/21/roger-stone-gag-order-1179548

Under Jackson’s new order, Stone can’t make any public comments of any kind about the charges he’s facing from the special counsel, which include lying to Congress and witness tampering.
He’s also banned from social media posts or speaking through surrogates about his case.



Stone's website:

https://stonecoldtruth.com/the-plot-to-paint-trump-as-putins-puppet/

Forget 31 July 2016 as the alleged start date for the full blown Trump counter intelligence investigation. That day is a sham. The actual campaign to paint Trump as a full fledged stooge of Russia started in early May 2016. We now know the start date thanks to the text messages between star-crossed lovers Strzok and Page and the timeline buried in the Mueller Report:

Page-strzok-text-ted-cruz-may-4-2016

It is important to understand that the collection of intelligence on U.S. Presidential candidates was not limited to Donald Trump. The collection effort started in the summer of 2015 and included the main Republican candidates and, according to a knowledgeable source, also targeted Bernie Sanders.

SNIP

I believe this is a cover story. Here is what I think really happened.

Seth Rich, a DNC employee and Bernie Sanders supporter, downloaded the emails and then gave them to Wikileaks. Rich was in contact with Wikileaks. That is not my opinion. We know that courtesy of a FOIA request by lawyer Ty Clevenger to the NSA filed in November 2017, who requested any information regarding Seth Rich and Julian Assange.
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