Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone privately sought information on Hillary Clinton during the presidential campaign in 2016, which he believed would be damaging to her, from the WikiLeaks founder, emails show.
The emails could put into question Stone’s September testimony before the House Intelligence Committee in which he claimed that he was only looking for “confirmation” that Julian Assange had information about then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Back in September, Stone reportedly urged an acquaintance who knew Assange to obtain from him emails pertaining to Clinton’s alleged role in disrupting a purported Libyan peace deal in 2011 when she was serving as secretary of state, The Wall Street Journal writes.
“Please ask Assange for any State or HRC e-mail from August 10 to August 30–particularly on August 20, 2011,” he wrote to Randy Credico, a New York radio personality who had interviewed the WikiLeaks founder several weeks before. However, at that time, Stone did not have a formal role in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Another email obtained from the Journal shows that Credico responded to Stone’s request by telling should that information exist, it would be on WikiLeaks’ website. The email also shows that Stone expressed skepticism at the claim, at which Credico again responded by asking for “a little bit of time.”
A while later, he told the former campaign adviser that the information on Clinton would soon be released. However, both Stone and Credico later denied ever having special access to WikiLeaks’ material.
“I never had possession or access to any Clinton emails or records,” Stone said, adding that his testimony before the House committee was “complete and accurate.”
Representative Adam Schiff, the ranking Democrat of the House Intelligence Committee, said that the emails between the two men had not been provided to the committee, which, he added, would mean that “his testimony was either deliberately incomplete or deliberately false.”
Roger Stone told CNBC in an email that Schiff’s statement was “typical bullshiff.”
“The e-mails fall outside the scope of their request,” Stone added. “My attorney will respond for the record.”
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