As Mueller's focus tightens, Roger Stone declares he will 'never betray' Trump

[riversedge]

Source: abc



By Katherine Faulders
Ali Dukakis

May 31, 2018, 6:25 PM ET


President Trump’s longtime confidant Roger Stone has told the world he believes special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is “clearly out to get” him. Now he is sending another message: He won’t flip.

“I will never betray this president,” Stone told ABC News Thursday. “Under no circumstances will I bear false witness against President Trump.”

A veteran Republican operative and political street fighter, Stone added he has no plans to follow the path of President Richard Nixon’s White House Counsel, who famously turned on his former boss in a scathing manifesto, which he read before a shocked Senate committee during its 1973 investigation of the Watergate scandal.

“John Dean, I am not,” Stone said.
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Earlier in May, Stone's longtime friend and business associate Michael Caputo, who also served a brief stint as a Trump campaign aide, was interviewed by the special counsel's team and told ABC News much of the questioning centered on Stone...............................

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Time will tell.

[world wide wally]

1. Any bets?

[BigmanPigman]

2. He is hoping for a pardon.

[ToxMarz]

6. I think he's applying for a pardon

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

18. Something tells me..

he has a horizontal tattoo on his lower back...dt reclining on a bed in a hotel housecoat....uh...ugh...yic...yic....
Stones Tramp(trump) Stamp....
Ever notice you don't have to go far conversationally to get to a disagreeable trait about these people. They act and repeat in such ugly ways that even describing basic facts about them. Then they accuse us of being grim and nasty all the time.
I dunno. What it means is...you can't criticize them without sounding vitriolic. I say again...I dunno.

[lagomorph777]

19. A Federal Pardon?

He'd better hope Mueller hasn't lined up various state prosecutors against him. Pres. Turd can't do a thing about that!

[berni_mccoy]

3. Gates and Manafort said the same thing.

Gates turned state witness...

I think Manafort is getting close to a breaking point.

Roger, you chose the path of pain...

[Grassy Knoll]

4. I Detect Another Failed President Tattoo..

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[Brother Buzz]

16. There's reasonable speculation it will be jailhouse ink

[lagomorph777]

20. Maybe he'll tattoo his eyeballs blue and yellow to go with the orange spray tan.

[MontanaMama]

5. WTF is the hold

that the Dotard has over these people? He’s a fucking failure on every level. I don’t get it. I never will. Unless it’s Putin....

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

7. Money.

They know if they stay loyal to Trump they'll get rich (or richer), but if they fuck him over, no one will ever hire them again and they'll die poor and unloved.

They also know (or suspect from all of Trump's actions) that their friend in the WH is willing to hand out pardons like they are ice cream cones to people he favors, and that's a powerful incentive to hang in there, even if it ultimately means admitting you have committed a crime, which is a condition for getting a pardon. Sheriff Joe was shocked when he discovered his golden pardon came with that little caveat.

[lagomorph777]

21. #NRAROUBLES

and Kompromat.

And if all else fails, a bloody execution by one of Putin's goons.

[SamKnause]

8. "I will never betray this president".

Is that code for I will not tell the truth ???

[Leghorn21]

9. "John Dean, I am not" - NO SHIT, YA LITTLE RATFUCKER

Now, y’all have taught me to pay attention to any ”parsing” going on, right? So when he says
“Under no circumstances will I bear false witness against President Trump.”, doesn’t that technically mean that he will tell the TRUTH about Spanky45?

Yeah, in this case, probably not.

Well, you hang tough, big guy, I’m sure Mr. Mueller & Co. are completely freaked the fuck out at the very thought of confronting you.

Hahahahahhaaaahhhahahaaaaaahhaha!!!!!

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

10. Not making fun but...

wtf is with this guys head shape...and Rudys God damn eyes?

[Scarsdale]

15. tRump only hires

strange looking people. Nobody is to detract from his "awesomeness" (in his own mind) tRump is positively repulsive looking, and acting. When faced with a long prison term, this little Stone weasel will spill his guts. I hope it is all over his Mafia suit.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

17. I agree.

We need to support each other as Democrats. We will AGAIN save this country. Last time being Pres Obama bailing out banks and paying for the wars. We're going to do this.

[lagomorph777]

22. Looks like a cartoon character

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

23. I had that exact person in mind.

[PSPS]

11. Betray? What could you or anyone say that would "betray" an innocent person?

Say what you will about J Edgar Hoover, but he would never have let the federal government get mobbed up like it is now.

[NBachers]

12. People who shout the loudest about not being rats immediately raise my suspicion that they are rats.

[truthisfreedom]

13. Analysis: pleading the fifth and applying for a pardon.

[Mc Mike]

14. Stick him in Marion.

[FakeNoose]

24. Well Cohen says he'll take a bullet, so what are you taking?

A grenade, maybe? What a bunch of lying weasels these guys are.