Stone Sold Himself to Trump as a WikiLeaks Pipeline

The New York Times has an email exchange between Stephen Bannon and Roger Stone: “The email exchange, not previously reported, underscores how Mr. Stone presented himself to Trump campaign officials: as a conduit of inside information from WikiLeaks, Russia’s chosen repository for documents hacked from Democratic computers.”

“Mr. Bannon and two other former senior campaign officials have detailed to prosecutors for the special counsel, Robert Mueller, how Mr. Stone created that impression… One of them told investigators that Mr. Stone not only seemed to predict WikiLeaks’s actions, but that he also took credit afterward for the timing of its disclosures that damaged Hillary Clinton’s candidacy.”