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EmptyWheel documents Roger Stone’s co-conspirator Corsi’s cryptic quoting of Jeremiah on his radio show yesterday:
From the very first reporting on Jerome Corsi’s testimony to Robert Mueller, his lawyer hinted that he may have been invited — but declined — to engage in criminal activity with Roger Stone.”
Which is curious in itself seeing as it appears Corsi himself may have been Stone’s back channel.
Yesterday on his broadcast, Corsi seemed a lot less certain that he has avoided legal jeopardy.
“He billed the broadcast as a historic one and made it clear it was all about Mueller, even while he feigned that he was not commenting on Mueller. He announced he would not broadcast Friday, because he’d be with his lawyers, and suggested he might not broadcast Monday. He invoked both Stone and Alex Jones in his comments. Chuck Ross laid out some of this here, including that he invoked Jeremiah 20:11, presumably as a veiled attack on Mueller.:
But the Lord is with me as a mighty terrible one; therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail; they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper; their everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten,
Corsi also invokes Jesus’ superior access to truth before Pontius Pilate.
What Ross doesn’t lay out — but I have — is that Roger Stone’s excuses for his “Podesta time in a barrel” comments seem to be a retroactive excuse for some attacks he and Corsi made on John Podesta that seem to reflect some pre-knowledge that the Podesta emails Russia leaked in October 2016 would include information on Podesta’s ties to Joule Unlimited. Corsi returned to the attack in October 2016 even before WikiLeaks started releasing the emails and Stone adopted without showing signs of reading the emails he relied on. The awareness that the Podesta dump would include emails on Joule seems to date back to mid-August 2016, precisely the period when Stone (and his associate, Lee Stranahan) were first engaging with Guccifer 2.0, and it happened just two weeks after Stone flipflopped on his claimed beliefs about who did the DNC hack.”
So, in his broadcast, Corsi suggests something about his two month cooperation with Mueller coming to a head, and he may have been the means by which Stone knew of what the Podesta emails included ahead of time. But with all that, Corsi’s lawyer suggests Stone is the one with the really serious exposure.
It may be that Mueller is pressuring Corsi to cop a plea deal. That might explain two months of close work with Mueller’s team. But Corsi’s concerns about his immediate future may, instead, suggest that Mueller has immunized Corsi, because if he refused to testify about something having immunity, then he could be jailed right away.
Certainly legal problems could explain his suddenly taking a day off from his radio show.
Is Corsi hoping Whittaker is going to save him? Wheeler hypothesizes that Mueller and Whittaker are battling over Corsi’ immunity deal.
In any case Corsi’ words on Friday were nothing if not cryptic:
“Thank God I’m still with the family, right now. I plan to be the rest of my life,” Corsi said during an hour-long broadcast of his web show. “Don’t know if I can promise that given what I foresee coming down the pike.”
“Corsi, a former Infowars reporter, has appeared twice before a grand jury being used in the special counsel’s investigation of possible collusion between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Russian government.”
“Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the former FBI director leading the probe, appears interested in Corsi’s interactions with Roger Stone, the longtime Trump confidant who is said to be a target in the investigation.”
As noted in (Chapter D) besides the fact that Corsi may well have been Stone’s real source for Assange, he is also neck deep in Comeygate-which is much less well known-and we know of this, of course, because of Stone’s big mouth.
“Corsi, 72, said Thursday that he would not comment specifically on the Mueller investigation. But he made remarks throughout the show that suggested his involvement in the probe is more dire than has been reported so far. (RELATED: Mueller Probe Turns Attention To Jerome Corsi)
Corsi said that he has been under “extreme mental pressure” since he first became involved in the investigation.
“I thought psychologically from time to time I was going to break,” he said.
Corsi said Mueller’s team subpoenaed him on Aug. 28 and that he’s been “constantly working with” the special counsel ever since. Corsi has met with prosecutors for numerous interviews and testified to the grand jury in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21 and Nov. 2.
He said he will miss his show Friday because he will be with his attorneys most of the day. He also announced that he will be setting up a legal defense fund next week.
A legal defense fund. Just like co-conspirators Roger Stone-and George Papadopoulos.
UPDATE: Post Mueller Report it seems that Corsi-like Carter Page-escaped charges. He and Stone had been feuding:
What did the Mueller Report reveal-or fail to reveal-about Corsi.
Jerome Corsi’s claims about Roger Stone, WikiLeaks, and the Access Hollywood tape, explained
Corsi is “Person 1” in Stone’s indictment. I read his book. There’s some stuff in there.
Not surprising there’s ‘some stuff here’-there is also stuff there in Stone’s book-though even now apparently few have read it-or there would be public understanding that Stone-Coris were also deeply involved in the Comeygate side of Watergate 2.0.
ndeed, presenting accurate information about what Mueller has might be exactly what Corsi wants. By publishing this book, Corsi is publicly airing every detail he knows about what Mueller knows, and what areas of inquiry Mueller’s pursuing. Doing so could undercut the investigation. And if Corsi can make a lot of money from book sales at the same time … well, that’s a win-win for him. Unless, of course, he does end up getting charged.”
He wasn’t charged though Roger Stone’s trial is coming in November and we’ll see what kind of a role he plays there; there are also as many of 20 spinoff and related investigations from the Mueller probe, so we’ll see if he figures in any of these other cases.
Corsi did go on to admit that the Seth Rich story was a hoax in February-about a month before Mueller submitted his report. Perhaps he know that the slanderous conspiracy theory would be debunked?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/04/media/jerome-corsi-seth-rich/index.html