Posted on 11/29/2018 6:21:33 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Special counsel Robert Mueller is taking a look into late-night phone calls between President Trump and his former campaign adviser Roger Stone that were made in 2016, The Washington Post reported late Wednesday.
Trump and Stone spoke in a “series” of phone calls during the campaign, people familiar with the phone records told the Post.
Mueller's interest in the calls comes as he probes whether Stone coordinated between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks while WikiLeaks was publishing hacked Democratic emails.
Earlier this week, Jerome Corsi, a right-wing conspiracy theorist and Stone associate, provided a number of news organizations with charging documents from the special counsel that showed he told Stone in emails that WikiLeaks was planning a release of damaging documents.
One of those emails came on Aug. 2, 2016, the day before Stone had a phone call with Trump, according to the Post.
Stone told the newspaper that the WikiLeaks dump was not a subject he discussed on that phone call.
“It just didn’t come up,” Stone said. “I am able to say we never discussed WikiLeaks. I’m not sure what I would have said to him anyway because it’s all speculation ... I just didn’t know if it’s true or not.”
Stone has also denied working with WikiLeaks and has repeated Trump's criticism of the special counsel probe as a “witch hunt.”
WikiLeaks has been a central figure in Mueller's investigation and in July, he charged 12 Russian intelligence officers in the hacking of the DNC for the documents that were published by WikiLeaks.
The calls from Trump would often show up on Stone's phone as “unknown” on the Caller ID, with Trump calling from a blocked number, according to the newspaper.
Stone also told the Post that his phone calls with Trump often came late at night because Trump “gets almost no sleep.”
“When Donald Trump calls you, he does most of the talking; you do most of the listening,” Stone said
Stone did not immediately return a request for comment from The Hill.
Trump attorney Jay Sekulow declined to comment to the Post on Trump's calls with the political operative.
“The president has responded to the questions asked by the special counsel,” Sekulow said. “We do not discuss those responses.”
Mueller is scum....and not entitled to SEARCH FOR and INTERPRET the President’s Phone calls.
Fishing in an empty bathtub.
Do you think the NSA already has recordings?
This is a real snoozer. So what if Stone talked to someone from Wikileaks?
What if someone from PBS talked to the Clinton campaign though? Someone like Donna Brazile?
Nonsense waste of taxpayer money.
Two years and there’s zippo on Russian collusion. Just going after political supporters.
Podesta’s password was “passw0rd.” He didn’t change it even after his emails were published by Wikileaks. 4channers were accessing his twitter and iCloud account that day.
The notion that this was some top secret Russian conspiracy is laughable.
Hillary put classified info — hundreds of pages — on a home brew server and she’s faced zero consequences for breaking laws many have gone to jail for.
A complete sham. The contempt for our entire judicial system is palpable. It’s a rigged game and you destroy anyone who supported your enemy.
Sounds like desperation to me.
Didn’t realize it was against the law to talk to one’s campaign advisers...but I guess it is now.
Is opposition research a crime now?
“between President Trump and his former campaign adviser Roger Stone “
LIE.
Uh, oh!
Trump SPOKE to someone!
IMPEACH HIM!
This is big new! Big, I tell you!
Trump needs to stop this. It’s gotten more than absurd.
Why do you keep posting Mueller trash from the Hill? Why don’t you just put it in one thread? Trump isn’t going anywhere with a 53-47 Senate, no matter how much the media might want him to.
Any impeachment will be summarily dismissed.
Mulehead LEAKing to the WaPo that he is investigating WikiLEAKS?
Now that is just silly funny.
Wikileaks teased for weeks about releasing damaging emails. The fact that Team Trump talked about it like everyone else in the country isn’t surprising or suspicious.
Mulehead is desperate.
This is also about a week after Julian Assange told CNN about the coming release of additional damaging documents. So, the evidence that Trump was working with the Russians is that Corsi and Stone (two guys who did not work for Trump at the time) had information about Assange that was also broadcast on CNN! I know nobody watches CNN but it is possible that just this once, somebody was tuned in.
Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US election
And what happens when Assange proves that the stolen emails didn't even come from Russia in the first place?
“Mueller looking into late-night calls between Trump, Stone”
Take a hike peckerhead.
Old muleface has heard that President Trump has dreams that Rottenstein should be in jail so he is probably going to looking into PDJT dreams next.
Mueller needs an accident!
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