“Mueller’s keen interest in (the Trump/Stone) relationship was laid out in a draft court document revealed this week in which prosecutors drew a direct line between the two men — referring to Stone as someone understood to be in regular contact with senior Trump campaign officials, ‘including with then-candidate Donald J. Trump.’
The inclusion of the president by name in the draft filing rattled his legal team and indicated how closely the special counsel is scrutinizing what Trump may have learned from Stone about WikiLeaks’ release of emails that prosecutors say were hacked by Russian intelligence operatives.”
That’s not all Trump could have gotten from Stone. Stone was a direct conduit to Russian intelligence, although he probably didn’t realize it. Stone claimed to be in touch with Guccifer 2.0. He claims that he was unaware that Guccifer 2.0 was an identity assumed by Russian intelligence. That’s probably true because: (1) he’s not the brightest bulb on the tree; (2) before we knew that Guccifer 2.0 was just a front for Russian intelligence, Stone wrote a long article for Breitbart arguing that it was Guccifer 2.0, not the Russians, who hacked the DNC.
Yup, Guccifer 2.0, but not the Russians!
In the immortal words of B. Bunny, “What a maroon!”
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Stone also wrote, “The original Guccifer famously hacked Hillary’s home email server, you might remember.” The original Guccifer, who was a single person and was not Russian, claimed to have done that, but investigators found no evidence to support such a claim, and Guccifer never presented any evidence that he had done so. Guccifer later admitted in FBI questioning that he had lied to Fox News when he made this claim. Apparently Stone never got the memo.
Hilary’s home email server was never hacked.
Stone’s words, not mine.