Steve Bannon will be surprise witness at Roger Stone trial
Source: Guardian
Stone is accused of lying to House intelligence committee about Trump campaigns efforts to obtain emails hacked by Russia
David Smith in Washington
@smithinamerica
Wed 6 Nov 2019 15.28 EST
Steve Bannon, the former White House chief strategist, will be a star witness at the trial in Washington of Roger Stone, a longtime political operative and ally of Donald Trump, a court heard on Wednesday.
The surprise announcement was made during opening statements on Wednesday by prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky, who told the court that Stone had straight-up lied to the US Congress about aspects of the 2016 election campaign because the truth looked bad for Donald Trump.
A self-described dirty trickster, Stone is accused of lying to the H
ouse of Representatives intelligence committee about the Trump campaigns efforts to obtain emails hacked by Russia that were published by the WikiLeaks website with the effect of harming Trumps Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
On day two of Stones trial at a federal court in Washington, Zelinsky told the jury they would hear from Bannon, who was chief executive of the Trump campaign and went on to work at the White House. This sets the stage for the most high-profile and bruising scrutiny yet of the inner workings of the 2016 Trump campaign, months after the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller wound up.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/nov/06/steve-bannon-surprise-witness-roger-stone-trial-trump-russia
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(9,651 posts)After dining on that, they'll be doing this for hours.
Hagfish are jawless, so the mouth would always be open.
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(1,366 posts)If you are Slime
Then you are Prime
To do hard Time
For your Crime
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(14,173 posts)What is their evil plan?
Bannon and Stones' #1 job is to protect Trump. This development is not done for altruistic purposes.