Roger Stone (Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer)
Roger Stone, an unofficial adviser to Donald Trump’s campaign, on Wednesday dismissed rumors that he had advanced warning of last Friday’s release by WikiLeaks of thousands of hacked emails from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.
Stone told NBC News that he has “back-channel communications with WikiLeaks” through a “mutual friend” with the website’s exiled founder and editor-in-chief Julian Assange.
“But they certainly don’t clear or tell me in advance what they’re going to do,” he clarified.
“If I were on one of those committees,” he added, “I would demand proof because it appears to me that …read more
Source: Salon
