Roger Stone arrested by FBI and indicted by Mueller

by The Right Scoop

Roger Stone was just arrested and indicted by Mueller for obstruction, witness tampering, and false statements.

Here’s what we know:

FOX NEWS – Roger Stone, the colorful former longtime political adviser to President Trump, has been indicted on charges of obstruction, making false statements and witness tampering as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s wide-ranging Russia collusion probe.

For months, Stone has warned that he could be indicted, saying in public he believed Mueller was investigating whether he had advance knowledge of WikiLeaks releasing hacked emails of Democrats during the 2016 campaign. Stone has repeatedly denied the accusation.

A spokesman for Mueller’s office said Stone, 66, was arrested in Fort Lauderdale on Friday morning after being indicted by a federal grand jury a day earlier.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders, appearing on CNN, said Friday, “This has nothing to do with the president or the White House — has to do with that individual.”

These are an overview of the charages. Note they have nothing to do with Wikileaks:

The 24-page indictment alleges that Stone worked to obstruct the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election by making false statements to the committee, denying he had records sought by the committee and persuading a witness to provide false testimony.

The indictment does not charge Stone with conspiring with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website that published the emails, or with the Russian officers Mueller says hacked them. Instead, it accuses him of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements about his interactions related to WikiLeaks’ release.

The indictment says Stone spoke to Trump campaign officials during the summer of 2016 about WikiLeaks and information the organization had that might be damaging to the Clinton campaign. It also says Stone was contacted by “senior Trump campaign officials” to inquire about future WikiLeaks releases of hacked Democratic emails.

CNN obtained video of the FBI going up to Roger Stone’s home in the wee hours of this morning. I don’t know if they were there are recorded the footage or if they got it from someone else:

So this is what the media will be talking about all weekend as they salivate about Stone’s connections to Trump and what this might mean for Trump.

But note that in the article, Sarah Sanders stated that this has nothing to do with Trump or the White House.

Here’s more from CNN:


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