Roger Stone posts photo of judge with cross-hairs symbol

NEW YORK — Roger Stone criticized the federal judge overseeing his criminal case on Monday, blasting her as a partisan appointee of President Barack Obama and posting a photo of her face featuring what appeared to be a cross-hairs symbol.

The embattled confidant to President Donald Trump posted the picture of Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Instagram but quickly deleted it after the New York Daily News asked him about the apparent rifle scope symbol in the left hand corner.

Stone, who was indicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation last month, claimed he “didn’t notice the symbol” on the photo that he said he got off the Internet.

Stone deleted the photo and replaced it with one cropping out the crosshairs.