Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Roger Stone Trial



Andrew Prokop
@awprokop
The new information revealed was about Stone's contacts with the Trump campaign — ominous emails to Manafort and Bannon, and calls with Trump at key times. That's because Stone is charged with a false statements count on that. (Related to his testimony to House Intel)
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Andrew Prokop
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Stone defense lawyer Bruce Rogow begins his opening statement. He says that the prosecutor is right that the evidence in this case is "there for you to see." "But what isn’t there for you to see is Mr. Stone’s state of mind."
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Andrew Prokop
@awprokop
Rogow making what will apparently be Stone's main defense against the false statements charges — a claim he thought the House was only asking him for documents about Russia, not WikiLeaks or Assange. "The fact that it was a Russian investigation covered all of his answers."
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Andrew Prokop
@awprokop
Rogow is presenting various excerpts from Stone's House Intelligence Committee testimony (which we've never seen before). Trying mightily to advance the questionable argument that Roger Stone had no idea that the committee wanted info on WikiLeaks.
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Andrew Prokop
@awprokop
Rogow now saying Stone in fact had no intermediary with WikiLeaks. Corsi claimed to have info, but he was just "playing Stone," and "Stone took the bait." "There was no intermediary between Mr. Stone and Julian Assange. It's made-up stuff."
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Andrew Prokop
@awprokop
Rogow adds: Stone was also “playing others himself,” by “creating that notion that he had some kind of direct contact" (with WikiLeaks) "All of these people were playing each other... trying to be important people, trying to say they had more than they really had"
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Andrew Prokop
@awprokop
Rogow moves on to what he describes as the second part of the case, the witness tampering charge re: Credico. Says they had a longtime "friendship." Credico was never "afraid" of Stone. Exchanged many "crude" and even "odious" texts, but that's just how they talk
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Rogow apparently laying the groundwork to argue that when Stone told Credico "do a Frank Pentangeli," he was referring to Credico's talents as an "impressionist" — that he meant to an actual impression of the character