WaPo:
Stone was charged with seven counts, including one count of obstruction of an official proceeding, five counts of false statements and one count of witness tampering, according to Mueller’s office.
With Stone’s indictment, Mueller has struck deep inside Trump’s inner circle, charging a long-standing friend of the president and one of the first people to promote Trump for the White House.
Stone, 66, who has been friends with Trump for three decades, served briefly as a formal adviser to his presidential campaign in 2015 and then remained in contact with him and top advisers through the election.
The GOP operative has been a key focus of the special counsel for months as Mueller has investigated whether anyone in Trump’s orbit conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Read the indictment
I suppose the dangling of pardons will likely come back into play now - preceded of course by more of the usual flip-floppy double-speak:
And Stone will most likely stay in the mode he helped establish for GOP Rat-Fuckery:
I suppose the dangling of pardons will likely come back into play now - preceded of course by more of the usual flip-floppy double-speak:
- Yes, Roger's a friend
- No, I never really knew him
- Yes, he was an integral part of the operation
- No, he did a few things for us around the edges
- blah blah fuckin' blah
And Stone will most likely stay in the mode he helped establish for GOP Rat-Fuckery:
Stone has a tattoo of Nixon on his back! What a freak. Snopes said so, the tattoo, not the freak part.
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