Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been digging into whether Roger Stone knew in advance that WikiLeaks planned to release hacked Democratic emails in 2016, according to a report from The Washington Post.
Stone made public and private comments in 2016 during the presidential race between President Trump and Hillary Clinton that indicated he knew how to get in touch with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Both Stone and WikiLeaks have adamantly denied any contact, however, and Stone, an informal adviser to Trump over the years, has said his comments were exaggerated.
Stone previously told the Post that his only connection to WikiLeaks was through liberal comedian and Stone’s former friend Randy Credico.
Meanwhile Credico told a grand jury in September that Stone confided to him that he had a back channel to WikiLeaks during the campaign, a personal familiar with the matter told the Post.
The special counsel’s team is also investigating Stone’s relationship with InfoWars Washington Bureau chief Jerome Corsi who testified to a grand jury in September, according to the Post.
Mueller is additionally looking into Stone’s communications with Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks, people familiar with the probe told the Post.
Mueller’s team is investigating whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government during the election. The hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the release by Wikileaks of emails from the Clinton campaign have long been a point of interest.
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JUST IN: Mueller examining conflicting accounts of Stone’s ties to WikiLeaks: report https://t.co/qqWi39j8ML pic.twitter.com/niKkh405pe
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