Posted on 03/09/2017 7:57:30 PM PST by drewh
Roger Stone communicated privately with an entity directly involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee ahead of the 2016 White House race, The Smoking Gun has reported
Mr. Stone, a veteran political consultant, swapped private Twitter messages last year with “Guccifer 2.0,” the website reported citing an unnamed source. If accurate, the allegation means Mr. Trump’s longtime confidante and one-time presidential campaign manager spoke in private with a persona intimately implicated in the operation that helped dash Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s chance at the White House, and would undeniably amplify existing concerns regarding Trump’s alleged ties to Russia.
Indeed, the secret-spilling website began publishing internal Democratic Party correspondence the following month, including embarrassing documents pounced upon by Mrs. Clinton’s presidential opponent.
In addition to a handful of public, documented Twitter exchanges between Mr. Stone and the Guccifer 2.0 person, The Smoking Gun indicated that federal investigators have obtained private, “direct messages” involving both accounts. The nature of the alleged correspondence was not made clear, and Mr. Stone didn’t deny they may have taken place: When asked if the conversations occurred, Mr. Stone wrote “don’t recall” in a text to The Smoking Gun.
“Numerous people who work for me have access to my twitter feed,” he added.
Guccifer 2.0’s Twitter account was in regular contact with multiple reporters prior to last year’s election, including those employed by The Smoking Gun. According to Wednesday’s report, the website grilled Guccifer 2.0 last August concerning any possible conversations The FBI began investigating Guccifer 2.0 last year and obtained detailed records from Twitter that would include tweets and direct messages involving the persona, The Smoking Gun reported, citing two sources. The FBI is separately in the midst of investigating potential ties between individuals close to Mr. Trump, including Mr. Stone, and Moscow.
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Whatever. The Republicrat Deep State Globalist cabal has to keep digging deeper to make the Russian story stick.
What? Multiple reporters are Russian spies and complicit in the DNC hacking ? we can spin, too.
I thought Gucifer 2.0 was Romanian.
Who is Roger Stone, and why should I care if he spoke to Guccifer at anytime in the history of the world?
More unnamed sources.
I’ve listened to Stone on InfoWars. I don’t think he’s credible.
Also this is the first I’ve heard that Stone is any sort of confidante of Trump. Not that it matters.
Besides, what’s the point? Hillary’s the one who had classified info on an unsecured server.
Podesta’s the one who breeched his own security by opening up to a phishing attack.
How does this magically become Trump’s fault?
Nothing personal but if Trump/advisors or the Russians wanted a go-between then Roger Stone would be the last guy any of them would want to be that person. He’s a loose end
I talked with an Israeli colonel about their new tank at a conference on Fort Hood back in 1980. I spent many a shift in conversations with South Korean officers in the bunker at Camp Red Cloud. I attended many a lobbyist’s and embassy’s party in the capitol for the above average shrimp and caviar.
Stone was a confidant
Trump turned him loose early on
Communicating via twitter exchanges
Lol
I have argued with that freak Perez Hilton on twitter
And others
Does that make me conspiring with that caker
Iam confused. What’s the issue?
Clapper has stated the investigations that
Included the F.B.I. found no collusion between any American Citizen and Russia.
Is Stone a U.S. Citizen? Then why even write up the story?
Nah, can’t be pushing an agenda....
Yes, but Mr. Stone was doing this when you were in short pants or possibly not here yet. He’s forgotten more about politics than any 10 individuals you see on cable news on a typical night.
Yesterday I read that it wasn’t gucifer and that it was the Russians. Now it’s back to gucifer.
The Washington Times seems to now be deeply into Fake News.
And this matters as much as Democrats and media and RINOs and spies colluding?
You think Stone was sending a go when he said he’d been polonium poisoned?
You think Stone was sending a go when he said he’d been polonium poisoned?
What?
how does any of this come back to Pres. Trump ?
Stone claims to be a confidant of kinds of people.
I don’t see any evidence it’s not all in his head.
Bob Woodward claimed to have gotten Bill Casey to tell him all kinds of secrets while on his death bed. No one reputable believes him.
I think Stone is even more out there than Woodward, if that’s possible.
Roger Stone was put out on the periphery by the Trump campaign early on because they knew the guy’s a loose cannon. I think the big reason the left wants so badly to connect Stone with all of this is his ties going back to Richard Nixon, the left’s favorite historical whipping horse. If they can make the link with Stone to the Russians they can say see Donald Trump is just as devious and underhanded as Richard Nixon. Whatever. The lefties have no ammo left so now they’re shooting us with silly string!
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