Do you want to see a tweet that hasn’t aged well? How about this one from the president that is less than two months old? Roger Stone has now been indicted for, essentially, making up lies about President Trump in an effort to shield him from the truth.
And when Trump made that tweet, he knew full well that Stone had perjured himself before the House and Senate intelligence committees, and he knew he was not cooperating with the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. I suppose it does take “guts” to expose yourself to that kind of legal liability.
...
It’s clear from the indictment that people at the highest levels of the campaign were aware that Stone had contacts with Julian Assange and could provide information about the timing and to a certain degree the content of the leaks before they actually occurred. No one has come forth publicly and admitted this to Congress or the American people.
The case isn’t quite closed yet, but it’s getting near to that point. What remains is for Mueller to demonstrate to what degree that major players, including the president, understood at the time that the Russians were responsible for giving the material to WikiLeaks. I’ll have much more to say about that soon.
