Roger Stone Will Save Himself, With Trump Or Without Him
The Indicted Political Trickster Signals that He’s Ready to Tell Mueller What He Knows
By David Cay Johnston, DCReport Editor-in-Chief
At DCReport we focus on what politicians do, not what they say. Sometimes, however, parsing words is important. Such is the case with what Roger Stone, the freshly indicted adviser to Donald Trump, said after he was indicted Friday, Jan. 25.
Stone has been a dirty trickster his whole life, growing rich by making up lies, misleading voters and generally being a scoundrel, a role Stone relishes. He says what he does is legal and is “perfectly legal” exercise of his First Amendment free speech rights.
Until Friday Stone had said again and again that he would never testify against Trump.
Indeed, Trump tweeted just that on Dec. 3, 2018, quoting Stone: “I will never testify against Trump.”
But when Stone walked out of Florida courthouse Friday, released on $250,000 bond, Stone spoke in nuanced terms.
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Stone says nothing improper went on between him and Donald. Maybe, in fact, the crimes Mueller has already identified were done through intermediaries.
Both men are known to work through intermediaries to maintain deniability for their conduct. Donald has likely used his son Don Jr. and his son-law, Jared Kushner, while Stone has used another Mueller indictee, the fabulist Jerome Corsi.
For a prosecutor like Mueller that’s not a big problem to get around. Good prosecutors know how to deal with crime via third parties. And Mueller is not just good. He is as good as it gets.
I waiting for Steve Bannon to be indicted, right along with everyone else, associated with this bunch........................
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