Trump strategist: Campaign did not collude with Russians
intermediary with WikiLeaks Guccifer that he calls “innocfounder Julian Assange. uous.”
Stone has long denied that The direct messages on he worked with Russian offi- Twitter, exchanged over a WASHINGTON — Longtime cials to influence the presimonthlong period, show Donald Trump associate dential election. In a lengthy Stone first congratulating Roger Stone said Tuesday and combative statement Guccifer for being reinhe’s “aware of no evidence released Monday night ahead stated on Twitter after he whatsoever” that Trump’s of the interview, Stone said was kicked off, and asking campaign coordinated with “there is one ‘trick’ that is that the account retweet a Russians during the 2016 not in my bag and that is tweet about how the elecelection. treason.” tion could be rigged against
Stone spoke to the House Stone, a Republican strat- Trump. Guccifer writes, “I’m Intelligence Committee for egist who has known Trump pleased to say that u r great more than three hours as for many years and informan .... please tell me if I part of the panel’s probe mally advised him during the can help u anyhow.” into Russian interference 2016 campaign, has denied California Rep. Adam in the election. Afterward, that he had advance knowl- Schiff, the top Democrat on he told reporters that the edge of the leak of former the panel, said there was majority of lawmakers’ ques- Clinton campaign chair- “one area” where Stone tions focused on his com- man John Podesta’s emails refused to cooperate and munications with Guccifer and says he never colluded the committee may have to 2.0, the unnamed hacker with Assange, who released subpoena him. He didn’t say who has taken credit for Podesta’s emails on his webwhat area that was. breaking into Democratic site. Stone has been heavily National Committee email He also released a series of critical of Schiff ever since servers. He said questions supporting documents Monthe Democrat suggested in also focused on communi- day evening, including direct March that Stone had a direct cations he had through an messages he exchanged with line to Russian hackers.