Roger Stone: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution and Declared War Against Alt-Left Fake News
Roger Stone, a stout supporter and confidant of Trump, has echoed the president"s claims that the FBI"s investigation into the president"s staff ties with Russia was becoming a "witch hunt".
The former adviser during Trump"s election campaign also resolutely denied allegations that he had any connection to Russia in an interview on Friday.
Stone said he had no knowledge that Wikileaks was going to publish hacked Clinton campaign emails during a pivotal time in campaigning, allegedly delivered to the website by Russian intelligence in order to influence the presidential election.
Roger Stone, a confidant of Trump, claims the FBI"s investigation into the president"s staff ties with Russia during the election was becoming a "witch hunt" on Friday
He also deniedhaving any knowledge that Wikileaks was going to publish hacked Clinton campaign emails, despite a tweet that predicted the leak months beforehand
Stone"s cry of a witch hunt is a direct echo of Trump"s defense of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who removed himself from the investigation after it was revealed he had met with a Russian ambassador twice.
although stone denies knowing wikileaks was set to publish the hacked emails, he had tweeted in August 2016 a prediction about the leaked information.
He said that it would "soon" be "Podesta"s time in the barrel", shortly before the website rolled out the controversial emails.
The political consultant told aCBS News reporter he suspected the bureau was looking into him as well.
He said: "Sure they"ll get my grocery lists, they may get the emails between my wife and I, but here"s what they won"t get -- any contact with the Russians. It"s a witch hunt. I know it is."
Stone is using the same rhetoric as Trump to criticize the FBI investigation, both calling it a "witch hunt".
The president said in a tweet on Thursday:"Jeff Sessions is an honest man. He did not say anything wrong. He could have stated his response more accurately, but it was clearly not intentional.
Stone echoed Donald Trump"s term of a "witch hunt", regarding the FBI"s investigation. Trump defended Attorney General Jeff Sessions using the same wording on Thursday
"This whole narrative is a way of saving face for Democrats losing an election that everyone thought they were supposed to win. The Democrats are overplaying their hand. They lost the election and now, they have lost their grip on reality.
"The real story is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total witch hunt!"
Russia"s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, also declared the investigation as a witch hunt on Friday, Politico reported.
FBI Director James Comey was appointed to his position by former President Barack Obama in 2013.
In the series of tweets, Trump was defending Sessions after the attorney general announced he would recuse himself from the investigation after it was revealed he had met with a Russian ambassador twice
After the article was published about Stone, he tweeted that he was tired of Russian ties accusations
He wasn"t forthcoming with details when asked about the investigations into any Russian meddling in the U.S. election on Thursday during a closed-door meeting in Congress, the leading Democrat on the House intelligence committee said.
"At this point we know less than a fraction of what the FBI knows," U.S. Representative Adam Schiff told reporters after Comey briefed the Republican-led committee.
The White House has dismissed the controversy, several times, over ties to Russia as a scam perpetrated by sore losing Democrats. Moscow has also denied the claims.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4280864/Roger-Stone-claims-FBI-investigation-witch-hunt.html
