Jerome Corsi, a right-wing conspiracy theorist, anticipated in emails to Roger Stone that WikiLeaks was planning to release another tranche of stolen and damaging documents ahead of the 2016 presidential election, according to multiple reports based on knowledge of draft court papers.
The charging document — which reportedly details exchanges between Corsi and Stone, a former informal Trump campaign adviser — signals that special counsel Robert Mueller is increasingly scrutinizing WikiLeaks’s release of the Democratic emails and allegations about Stone’s foreknowledge of the leak.
“Word is [Julian Assange] plans 2 more dumps,” Corsi reportedly wrote in an August 2016 email. “One shortly after I’m back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging.”
The documents also allege that Stone told his friend Corsi to get in touch with Assange about the forthcoming email release.
“Get to [Assange] [a]t Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending [WikiLeaks] emails,” reads the email to Corsi dated July 25, 2016, according to the draft court documents.
The whistleblower site made two separate email dumps during the heated presidential race that caused massive embarrassment to the Democratic Party. They included internal documents stolen from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) by Russian-linked hackers and emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta.
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