- Two associates reportedly claim the longtime Republican strategist Roger Stone told them had had learned from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that the organization possessed a batch of hacked Democratic emails months before the public became aware of the fact.
- Former Trump campaign adviser Sam Nunberg and a second unnamed associate both say Stone claimed to have met with Assange in 2016.
- Stone has repeatedly said he has never met with or directly spoken to Assange, and that he had no communication with WikiLeaks.
- Stone told Business Insider on Tuesday that he told Nunberg he was meeting with Assange in jest and had no recollection of having another conversation about Assange with anyone else.
- He said Nunberg had called him three times to tell him the special counsel Robert Mueller was “out to get” him.
Two associates of Roger Stone, a longtime Republican strategist and informal adviser to President Donald Trump, said he was aware that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was in possession of a trove of hacked Democratic emails months before they became public, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
According to the report, Stone told an unnamed associate in the spring of 2016 that he had learned from Assange that WikiLeaks had obtained the hacked materials that would later become a thorn in the side for the Hillary Clinton campaign. See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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- Susan Rice reportedly told the White House cyber team to ‘knock it off’ when they floated options to combat Russian meddling
- A critical witness in the Russia probe may have poked a huge hole in the Trump team’s story about a mysterious Seychelles meeting
- Weeks before the 2016 election, a Kremlin-backed group released an anti-Hillary Clinton video game where you win by deleting emails
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