Trump ally Stone charged as Mueller links campaign and leaked e-mail
Roger Stone is facing seven counts, five of false statements, and told a potential witness in the Mueller probe, ‘If you testify, you’re a fool’
New York/Washington - Roger Stone, a long-time Republican strategist and sometime confidant of US President Donald Trump, was arrested in Florida on Friday after being indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into possible co-ordination between the Trump campaign and Russia before the 2016 US election. Stone is facing seven counts: one count of obstruction of an official proceeding; five counts of false statements; and one count of witness tampering, according to the US justice department. The indictment goes to the heart of Mueller’s investigation and could pose a serious risk to Trump. It lays out how Stone, after leaving his campaign in 2015, continued communicating regularly with unnamed senior campaign officials in the summer of 2016 about an organisation matching the description of WikiLeaks — and how a “senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone”. That’s when WikiLeaks was publishing Democrats’ e-mails Mueller had previously alleged were obtained b...
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