Trump and his aides apparently knew more about WikiLeaks’ plans than they have let on, raising questions about the president's claims to Robert Mueller
Despite the profane Stone texts and caustic friendships that have dominated chatter about the case, the Republican provocateur’s court battle will likely be remembered for something far different: It revealed that Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign aides knew more about WikiLeaks’ plans than they have let on, and the president may have later misled Robert Mueller about it.
Of course, Mueller and his Justice Department supervisors had their reasons for holding back on the public release of so much WikiLeaks-related information before the Stone trial, which didn’t start until more than six months after the conclusion of the special counsel’s Russia probe. Namely, they didn’t want to damage the government’s case against the longtime GOP operative, meaning any references to their evidence were blacked out in the final Russia report.
— the byproduct of 18 months of investigation, 500 witness interviews and more than 2,800 subpoenas — concluded that there was insufficient evidence to file charges involving a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russian hackers. It only hinted at the Trump campaign’s eagerness to profit off WikiLeaks’ disclosures.
"Mr. Stone indicated that WikiLeaks would be submitting or dropping information but no information on dates or anything of that nature," Gates said. Less than two weeks later, Stone reached out to Bannon. “I do know how to win this but it ain’t pretty,” he wrote Bannon, who had just been announced that day as the campaign’s newly hired CEO.
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