Prosecutors portray longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone as a liar in a criminal case stemming from the Mueller investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election
WASHINGTON - The prosecution in the trial of Roger Stone on Wednesday painted President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser as a liar in a criminal case stemming from former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe that detailed Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election.
“Now you’ll ask, why didn’t Roger Stone just tell the truth?” Zelinsky asked the jurors. “The evidence in this case will show that Roger Stone lied to the House Intelligence Committee because the truth looked bad.” Zelinsky accused Stone of five categories of lies. Zelinsky also told the jurors the case was neither about politics nor about who hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016. U.S. intelligence agencies and Mueller concluded the hacking was done by Russia.
Part of the case involves communications between Stone and two other key figures: conservative radio host Randy Credico and conservative author Jerome Corsi. The prosecution said Stone relied on both men as intermediaries with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and the Wikileaks organization as part of an effort to learn more about a plan to disclose damaging emails about Clinton.
Zelinsky said that in July 2016, Stone spoke by phone with then-candidate Trump for about 10 minutes. Although the precise contents of the call are unknown, Stone sent an email to Corsi about an hour later and told him “that a friend of theirs living in London should see Julian Assange,” Zelinsky said.
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