New York Daily News

Don crony’s dirty Wiki-trick

- Chris Sommerfeld­t

LONGTIME TRUMP adviser Roger Stone privately inquired about damaging informatio­n on Hillary Clinton from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange before the 2016 election, raising questions about the candor of congressio­nal testimony Stone gave last year, unearthed emails reveal.

Stone asked New York radio host Randy Credico in a Sept. 18, 2016, email if he could reach out to Assange regarding “any” State Department emails pertaining to a failed 2011 Libyan peace deal, which Clinton has been widely blamed for derailing while serving as secretary of state.

“Please ask Assange for any State or HRC e-mail from August 10 to August 30 — particular­ly on August 20, 2011,” Stone wrote in the email, which was first reported by the Wall Street Journal and verified by the Daily News.

Credico responded that Assange had published all the emails he had found on his website. “Why do we assume WikiLeaks has released everything they have???” Stone wrote back.

The exchange appears to contradict testimony Stone gave to the House Intelligen­ce Committee that he had “merely wanted confirmati­on” from Credico that Assange had informatio­n on Clinton.

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) the committee’s ranking member, accused Stone of “deliberate­ly” leaving his exchange with Credico out of a batch of documents submitted to the committee. Stone told The News the exchange fell outside the scope of the committee’s request, and “any claim to the contrary” is “bullschiff.”

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