Associate of close Trump adviser expects to be indicted by Mueller

 

FILE PHOTO: Special Counsel Robert Mueller departs after briefing the U.S. House Intelligence Committee on his investigation of potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 20, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein -/File Photo/File Photo

 

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - An associate of Roger Stone, a longtime ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, expects to be indicted by the U.S. special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, he said on Monday.

 

Jerome Corsi, a right-wing commentator, said in a livestream posted to YouTube he expected to be criminally charged after two months of cooperation with federal authorities.

 

"I fully anticipate that in the next few days I will be indicted by Mueller for some form or other of giving false information to the special counsel or ... (however) they want to do the indictment. But I'm going to be criminally charged," Corsi said in the video.

 

Corsi's attorney declined to comment, and Corsi did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team of prosecutors is investigating whether Trump's campaign team colluded with Moscow in its alleged efforts to interfere in the 2016 election.

 

As part of that investigation, prosecutors questioned associates of Stone over his ties to WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange.

 

The connection between Stone and Wikileaks came under scrutiny after WikiLeaks published emails hacked from the Democratic Party and the account of the campaign chairman of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election.

 

Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel's office, declined to comment.

 

Trump has denied his campaign colluded with Moscow and has called the Mueller probe a "witch hunt". Russia denies any interference in the 2016 campaign, and Stone has also denied any wrongdoing.

 

(Reporting by Makini Brice in Washington and Nathan Layne in New York; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-11-13

Good. Break the law, get indicted. Surely the most die hard Trump can't argue with that. well, sanely anyway

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Peter Carr, a spokesman for the special counsel's office,

What an easy job! They never say anything.

Hot Take: tell the truth then you won't be indicted for perjury.

 

No clue why this is so difficult to understand?

Maybe they can open up a separate wing at Club Fed for the "trump" cronies.

2 hours ago, Emster23 said:

Good. Break the law, get indicted. Surely the most die hard Trump can't argue with that. well, sanely anyway

 

You sure about that? Because most available evidence points to the contrary. They condone law breaking and lying all the time on a regular basis, so long as it involves their lying, law-breaking, law-ignoring God.

 

Well the swamp seems to be getting drained for Trump. Already dozens of guilty pleas, convictions and charges.

I love when a witch hunt yields so many witches.

Now just need to wrap it all up nicely by getting the head warlock and hopefully justice will be done.

The swamp has never been so murky since Treasonous Trump and his criminals jumped in.

The important bit of news here is not the forthcoming indictment, it’s the admition that he’s been cooperating for two months.

 

Be assured he wasn’t cooperating to give information on people beneath him in the pyramid of crime that defines this administration.

They are getting closer don’t worry Donald your kids can join Paul and with luck you can as well!!!thats what you get when you conspiring to rigg elections with a hostile foreign power no less!!

Donald "trump" - - the dustbin of history would like to see you soon. File under bizarre narcissistic criminally corrupt clown nationalist demagogues.

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6 hours ago, mtls2005 said:

Hot Take: tell the truth then you won't be indicted for perjury.

 

No clue why this is so difficult to understand?

Keep one's mouth shut and don't say anything.  Stay out of jail.  The best phrase in the world:  "I don't recall."