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Seth Abramson: Breaking from Stone Trial-New impeachable offense/felony by Trump revealed
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Seth Abramson ✔ @SethAbramson
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Roger Stone's Trial Has Just Revealed a New Impeachable Offense and Federal Felony Committed by President Trump: Perjury for Lying Under Oath During the Mueller Investigation About His Access to Kremlin Cut-Out/Hostile Nonstate Intelligence Service WikiLeaks
The Hill ✔ @thehill
#BREAKING: Rick Gates testifies that Roger Stone gave Trump campaign updates on WikiLeaks hack http://hill.cm/0dq3w1x
1:23 PM - Nov 12, 2019
looking for addl sources.
Here's the Hill article:
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/470046-former-trump-campaign-official-testifies-stone-gave-updates-on
BY HARPER NEIDIG - 11/12/19 11:14 AM EST
President Trump's former deputy campaign manager told a jury on Tuesday that Roger Stone was giving the campaign updates on WikiLeaks's plans to release damaging emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.
Richard Gates, who is facing up to ten years in prison under a plea agreement for various fraud charges, testified in Stone's criminal trial on Tuesday, saying that the longtime Trump associate was telling the campaign about WikiLeaks's plans as early as April 2016, months before the DNC had announced it was hacked.
It had not been previously known that Stone was updating the campaign about WikiLeaks that early.
<snip>
On June 13, 2016, Stone said in an email to Gates, "Need guidance on many things. call me," according to evidence presented by prosecutors. The day before, Julian Assange, the leader and founder of WikiLeaks, had hinted in a media interview that he was planning to release Hillary Clinton emails.
On June 14, Stone talked with Trump on the phone and the next day sent another email to Gates saying, “I need contact info for Jared” Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and top adviser.
<snip>
A little over a week after WikiLeaks released the trove of DNC emails on July 22, 2016, Stone had a phone conversation with Trump. Gates told the jury on Tuesday that the candidate "indicated that more information would be coming” after speaking with Stone.
That's similar to what Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen, who's currently serving a three-year prison sentence, told Congress in February. He indicated that Stone had led the campaign to believe he was speaking directly with Assange.
"Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign," Cohen told Congress. "Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of 'wouldn’t that be great.'”
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BY HARPER NEIDIG - 11/12/19 11:14 AM EST
President Trump's former deputy campaign manager told a jury on Tuesday that Roger Stone was giving the campaign updates on WikiLeaks's plans to release damaging emails stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman.
Richard Gates, who is facing up to ten years in prison under a plea agreement for various fraud charges, testified in Stone's criminal trial on Tuesday, saying that the longtime Trump associate was telling the campaign about WikiLeaks's plans as early as April 2016, months before the DNC had announced it was hacked.
It had not been previously known that Stone was updating the campaign about WikiLeaks that early.
<snip>
On June 13, 2016, Stone said in an email to Gates, "Need guidance on many things. call me," according to evidence presented by prosecutors. The day before, Julian Assange, the leader and founder of WikiLeaks, had hinted in a media interview that he was planning to release Hillary Clinton emails.
On June 14, Stone talked with Trump on the phone and the next day sent another email to Gates saying, “I need contact info for Jared” Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and top adviser.
<snip>
A little over a week after WikiLeaks released the trove of DNC emails on July 22, 2016, Stone had a phone conversation with Trump. Gates told the jury on Tuesday that the candidate "indicated that more information would be coming” after speaking with Stone.
That's similar to what Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen, who's currently serving a three-year prison sentence, told Congress in February. He indicated that Stone had led the campaign to believe he was speaking directly with Assange.
"Mr. Stone told Mr. Trump that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and that Mr. Assange told Mr. Stone that, within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton’s campaign," Cohen told Congress. "Mr. Trump responded by stating to the effect of 'wouldn’t that be great.'”
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during the Mueller investigation. Right
Fortunately I just swallowed a mouthful of broccoli cheese soup before I read your post. 
