Stone, however, has now been convicted, and will be sentenced at some point in the coming months by Judge Amy Berman Jackson. But what, exactly, Corsi learned, and how he learned it, remain murky. And they suggested Stone concocted this false story to hide his true WikiLeaks connection - conservative author Jerome Corsi. The government presented voluminous documentary evidence that the story Stone told Congress - that all his WikiLeaks information came from a single “intermediary,” radio host Randy Credico - was false. To an extent, that makes sense - the charges against Stone weren’t about anything he did in 2016, but rather the alleged cover-up he perpetrated the following year.
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And Trump’s name came up frequently in the trial - prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky argued that Stone’s motivation for his lies and obstruction was that “the truth looked bad for Donald Trump.”īut what wasn’t really cleared up in the trial was whether Stone in fact had legitimate inside information about WikiLeaks and its posting of Democratic emails that had been hacked by Russian intelligence officers. Gates gave testimony suggesting that Stone shared this information with Donald Trump himself. Former White House senior counselor to President Trump Steve Bannon leaves court after testifying in Stone’s trial on November 8, 2019. Both said that Stone repeatedly suggested he had inside information on WikiLeaks’s plans to release material that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton. The trial featured testimony from two other former top Trump campaign aides - Steve Bannon and Rick Gates. Prosecutors alleged that Stone tried to obstruct the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election by lying to the committee about his efforts to contact WikiLeaks, and by encouraging another witness to lie for him. The special counsel indicted Stone in January, before completing his work, and Stone’s trial was the highest-profile loose end remaining from the probe. The verdict makes Stone the sixth former Trump adviser to be convicted of or plead guilty to charges stemming from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Stone was convicted of one count of obstructing an official proceeding, five counts of making false statements to Congress, and one count of witness tampering. The verdict is in for Roger Stone’s trial - and a Washington, DC, jury found President Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser guilty on all counts Friday.
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