Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, was charged as part of the special counsel investigation over his communications with WikiLeaks, the organization behind the release of thousands of stolen Democratic emails during the 2016 campaign, in an indictment unsealed Friday.
Last year, Mr. Trump tweeted praise for Mr. Stone who promised never to testify against him and contrasted him with other former associates who have cooperated with prosecutors. Mr. Stone, a self-described dirty trickster, began his career as a campaign aide for Richard M. Nixon and has a tattoo of Nixon on his back. (
you cannot make this shit up)
It was revealed last year that, in the weeks before the election, Mr. Stone was messaging on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, a pseudonym used by one or more operatives in the Russian intelligence scheme to steal the emails and funnel them to WikiLeaks.
Don Jr. and Jared appear to be in the on-deck circle. Then, at long last, there's the matter of applying the rule of law to the boss of bosses: Individual-1.
I wish just once that when Sarah Huckabee claims that the President is not involved, that the entire room would burst out in laughter until she would run from the room in embarrassment.
"Society in those days was a perfectly competent, perfectly complacent, ruthless machine." Virginia Woolf 1897