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Roger Stone Expects to Be Indicted

August 30, 2018 at 1:10 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Days after he predicted the president’s eldest son would soon be indicted, longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone is appealing for contributions to a legal defense fund, saying he expects to be charged with a crime,” NBC News reports.

Stone said in a letter to supporters that special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is “examining every aspect of my personal, private, family, social, business and political life” with the goal to “frame me for some nonexistent crime to silence me and pressure me to testify against the president. … I am not going to do it.”

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