Stone lied in your defense, Mr. President
Philip Bump
Feb. 12, 2020 at 5:03 p.m. EST
... What Stone did is well-documented. It was also done in service to Trump, something of which Trump is certainly aware ...
... According to Cohen, Stone gave Trump a heads-up on .. the release by WikiLeaks in July 2016 of material stolen from the Democratic National Committee by Russian hackers. Cohen claims that he overheard Stone informing Trump of the release, prompting Trump to say .. “wouldn’t that be great?” ...
... The indictment .. details six occasions on which Stone provided untrue information, ranging from denying that he had emails in which he contacted individuals about WikiLeaks to saying that he didn’t ask anyone to communicate with Assange to denying that he’d discussed his outreach to WikiLeaks with anyone from the Trump campaign.
That last point was easy to disprove ...
... By denying his own contacts with WikiLeaks during the hearing, Stone prevented the public from knowing about a possible connection between Trump and that Russian effort ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/02/12/we-know-what-roger-stone-did-mr-president-he-lied-your-defense/
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