Alleged Trump-Assange Backchannel: 'There Was No Backchannel'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Daily Beast




Longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone reportedly told Congress under oath that comedian Randy Credico was his connection to Assange. Credico says that backchannel never existed.

BETSY WOODRUFF
02.19.18 8:45 PM ET

One of the most curious episodes of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election is also one of its most intriguing: Did Roger Stone—the eccentric informal Trump adviser—have backchannel communications with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange?

The question has perplexed Trump/Russia investigators, in part because Stone tweeted on Aug. 21, 2016 that then-Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta would soon have his “time in the barrel” before Wikileaks started releasing Podesta’s emails. Forensics experts say Russian state-backed hackers stole them.

Stone told the House intelligence committee that he had a intermediary to Assange, according to CNN, and named lefty comedian-turned-radio host Randy Credico as that person. The Wikileaks founder has been on Credico’s radio show three times, and Credico tweeted a picture of himself outside the London Ecuadorian embassy on Oct. 5, 2016.

The House intelligence committee subpoenaed Credico to testify in November, and he replied by asserting his 5th amendment right to remain silent. Now, Credico is speaking out. In a wide-ranging interview, he told The Daily Beast that despite Stone’s statements, he never passed messages from Assange to anyone, and that Stone never had a backchannel to the Wikileaks founder.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Nigel "BrExit Liar" Farage has also been a back-channel to WikiLeaks. . . . . nt

[UpInArms]

2. Roger Stone is despicable

Stone involved in bot farm taking down Al Franken

The operation commenced on November 15, when Stone—who is now banned from Twitter for racism and profanity—tweeted from one of his accounts “Roger Stone says it’s Al Franken’s ‘time in the barrel.’ Franken next in long list of Democrats accused of ‘grabby’ behavior.”

On the same day, a developer named Atsufumi Otsuka registered a web domain in Japan called RealUSA.site, and a fake-news website soon emerged at that web address, according to research shared with the voting rights outfit Unhack the Vote.

Tweeden’s account of Franken groping her was first amplified by a network of right-wing media, including KABC in Los Angeles, where Tweeden has a radio show, The Hill, Infowars and Breitbart, which mobilized within hours of Stone's tweet and the release of a picture of a Tweeden and Franken at a USO performance before he was a senator.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. "never from Assange"? How about to Assange from Trump campaign?