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While he insists he has nothing to hide these wild outbursts suggest maybe it IS getting to Stone:
UPDATE: Augment this to this chapter?
Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to be increasingly interested in the actions of Roger Stone. Investigators have questioned former associates of Stone, the self-proclaimed political dirty trickster who has been a longtime official and unofficial adviser to Donald Trump. On Meet the Press on Sunday, Stone—who during the 2016 campaign boasted he was in direct contact with Julian Assange of Wikileaks and then later denied that he had been—said that he is “prepared” for the possibility that he will be indicted for “some extraneous crime pertaining to my business” that Mueller’s team “may seek to conjure up.”
So Stone is basically saying that ‘Sure, I’ve done some things of questionable legality in my own business but it’s cheating for Mueller to go after me THERE.”
And perhaps the pressure is getting to Stone. Randy Credico, a New York radio host and comedian, provided Mother Jones with a series of vitriolic emails he says Stone sent him in recent weeks. Reached via text message, Stone acknowledged communicating with Credico but told Mother Jones that “most” of the emails were “probably fabricated.” Stone declined to share the complete correspondence between him and Credico.
So ‘most’ of them were ‘probably’ fabricated. By who-Randy Credico?
Credico and Stone were once pals. When Stone started denying after the election that he had communicated directly with Assange, Stone claimed that Credico had served as something of a go-between for him with Assange during the campaign. For his part, Credico, who has publicly championed Assange, has said that he played no such role. Not surprisingly, the former friends have experienced a falling out.
“I am so ready. Let’s get it on. Prepare to die cock sucker,” Stone messaged Credico on April 9. Stone was responding to a message from Credico that indicated Credico would release information contradicting Stone’s claims about the 2016 election and that “all will come out.” Credico tells Mother Jones that he considered this email from Stone a threat.
Stone’s explanation for what he mean by ‘prepare to die’ is about as plausible as what he meant by ‘Soon it will be Podesta’s turn in the barrel.’
In a text message to Mother Jones, Stone did not dispute sending this particular message to Credico. But he maintains he was not making a threat and contends that Credico is citing his words out of context.
Yes-‘Prepare to die, cocksucker’ is taken out of context. But this claim here reminds me of his attempt to explain what he meant regarding Podesta:
“He told me he had terminal prostate cancer,” Stone writes. “It was sent in response to that. We talked about it too. He was depressed about it. Or he was lying?” (In other messages provided by Credico, Stone appears to have said he was not threatening him.)
Credico says he does not have prostate cancer and did not have such a discussion with Stone. Referring to the “prepare to die” message from Stone, Credico insists, “That was a threat.”
Stone’s claim to have meant not Podesta’s emails but that his brother Tony Podesta was in trouble for his part in-Stone and Manafort’s own company-never seemed too plausible either. And this claim that it was because Credico has cancer is about as plausible. It shows a pattern of Stone’s not very plausible lies.
https://www.salon.com/2018/05/25/roger-stone-should-be-worried-about-robert-mueller/