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UPDATE: Augment this chapter to this one?

Wow-now that was in interview. Great job by Ari Melba in asking Credico the right questions who seemed taken aback that Melba was so prepared.

UPDATE: Melber did the best job among MSM journalists as far as I’m aware interviewing Credico. However in Chapters A and B I review his interviews of George Papadopoulos and Carter Page and it was much less glowing alas-it’s hard to believe that a lawyer on Melber’s level doesn’t get the difference between not charged in a beyond the reasonable doubt sense and innocent of wrong doing yet this was how he treated both Page and the glorified Coffee Boy soon after Coverup AG Barr’s misleading memo-it certainly mislead Melber.

William McGurn and Brit Hume have decided that Carter Page, who the government convinced a judge might be acting as an Agent of Russia in 2016, is a latter day Martin Luther King Jr, based solely on the fact that Page was not charged as an agent of Russia (though a redacted discussion of the charging decision for him suggests it was a close call and Page is also one of two likely candidates to be the Trump aide who lied to the grand jury but wasn’t charged”

Hume and McGurn are GOP partisan hacks so this is their excuse but what excuse do Ari have for playing into this canard?

“Ari Melber scored a killer interview on his show, The Beat, with a guest that many have tried to book, but all have failed: Randy Credico. Who is this man, you ask? He is a confidante of Julian Assange and a friend of Roger Stone. In fact, he has visited Assange in his exile at the embassy and says he speaks to/emails with Roger Stone “once a week.”

“So this interview – it is bonkers. Honestly, you have to watch it to fully understand. At some points, Randy tries to avoid answering questions by breaking into Nixon or Bernie Sanders impressions. He panicked a few times when Ari started asking him pointed questions about dates and times about events.”

MELBER: You’re also a character in the Mueller probe, and partly because you do have something that a lot of people want and that is access to Julian Assange. How often do you speak to him? How did that come about?

CREDICO: He did my show way back in 2016, and then I went to London a few months later and then in 2017, I did a 12-part series on my are show at WBAI, and then over the last four months, I have been to London and I visited him three times. So we communicate.

MELBER: What do you think of him?

CREDICO: He’s a great guy. He’s a great journalist. I look at him the same way I look at Elijah Lovejoy or any of those other abolitionist journalists in the 1830s, 1840s, Elijah Lovejoy, people hated him, he was an abolitionist. I look at Julian Assange the same way, he has never ever published a lie. Nothing has been refuted.”

MELBER: You say that his materials tend to be authentic rather than forged?

CREDICO: Absolutely.

MELBER: Do you ever carry messages from him to other people?

CREDICO: Well, depends on what you mean by that. Do I carry messages? If I leave the embassy and he says when you get back to the states, say hello to somebody, yes, that could be something — randy, do you want me to narrow my question? Yes, go ahead.

UPDATE: The comparison with MLK doesn’t pass the laugh test-here’s someone who regularly tweeted out the kind of stuff about refugees you’d expect to see in Trump’s feed and when Assange formed the Wikileaks Party in Australia he aligned not with the Green Party but Australia First.

Even less does the idea that nothing Assange ever put out was refuted: a number of the claims in the Macrons Leaks were false and Assange was one of the originators of the Hillary is very sick slander.

Assange was also an originator of Pizzagate-which  accused Clinton of pedophilia and almost led to a murder-and the truly despicable Seth Rich Conspiracy that has caused so much pain for the deceased young man’s parents.

Assange has a long history of RTing out any garbage if it showed Clinton in a bad light-certainly not adverse to putting it out even if it was false. 

One steadfast Assange ally was Kim Dotcom, founder of the shuttered file-sharing site MegaUpload, who helped fuel a conspiracy theory that the DNC emails had not been hacked by Russia, but provided to WikiLeaks by a young Democratic staffer named Seth Rich, who was subsequently murdered. Alluding to another entirely unsubstantiated allegation — that Clinton had once suggested killing Assange in a drone strike — Dotcom said that the WikiLeaks founder was merely part of a crowdsourced political operation that had successfully defeated the greater evil.”

As it happens, one of the anti-Clinton rumors that WikiLeaks had urged Trump Jr. to “push” in an October 3, 2016 message was a tweet linking to that unsubstantiated allegation in an unsigned blog post citing anonymous sources. The blog post includes no documentation of the allegation, but the WikiLeaks tweet linking to it, which Trump Jr. told Assange he did share, included an excerpt from the blog post in which the type was styled to look like a leaked document.”

Hillary Clinton on Assange "Can't we just drone this guy" — report https://t.co/S7tPrl2QCZ pic.twitter.com/qy2EQBa48y

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 3, 2016

Earlier in the campaign, the WikiLeaks Twitter feed had also shared video from 2010 of a Fox News pundit, Bob Beckel, calling for Assange’s assassination, with a caption that incorrectly identified him as a “Hillary Clinton strategist.”

In the final months of the 2016 presidential election, the WikiLeaks Twitter feed promoted not just its new publications, but also frequently referred to tabloid rumors — like old chestnuts about Hillary Clinton’s supposed “role in the death of White House counsel Vince Foster” — and wild conspiracy theories about her campaign chair taking part in bloody satanic rituals.

Yet Credico says Assange ‘never published a lie, nothing has ever been refuted.’

Maybe Credico would like to corroborate those bloody satanic rituals?

End of UPDATE

The reality is that in 2016-and since-he acted more like a glorified GOP Super PAC-not just for Trump but the entire GOP-than any kind of transparency activist.

In 2015 he showed a clear preference for the GOP in Twitter DM messages. 

In February 2016 before the South Carolina primary he’d declared that she ‘can not be President.’

We now know that in April 2016 Assange told Roger Stone about thousands of emails that would damage Hillary Clinton-around the same time George Papadopoulos’ Russian professor told him the same.

Yesterday, Donald Trump’s House Republican allies announced that they had found no evidence that Donald Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia. And yet the considerable body of public evidence to the contrary continues to grow. Today, the Washington Post reports that Trump’s friend and informal adviser Roger Stone had advance knowledge that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had obtained stolen emails from John Podesta. Two sources — one of whom is Sam Nunberg, and the other of whom is not named — tell the Post that Stone knew about the email hack before it was publicly disclosed.”

UPDATE 2.0: What’s a bit perplexing here is that this reporting states Stone knew about Podesta’s emails-which had been hacked in March 2016-just a month later. The fact pattern we have based on Mueller’s indictment memo is that Stone learned of the emails on August 2, 2016 in an email from Jerome Corsi.

End of UPDATE 2.0.

Assange again in June 2016 announced to having damaging emails on Randy Credico’s radio show. He was not a journalist, much less a nonpartisan transparency advocate in 2016 he was pro GOP anti Hillary Clinton operative.

As for what Credico has in common with both Roger Stone and Julian Assange, it’s pretty clear: Hillary Derangement Syndrome.

Back to Crooks and Liars:

Moving on to Roger Stone:

MELBER: Let’s see you speaking about Roger Stone.

CREDICO: Okay, here we go.

MELBER: One of Trump’s supporters, Roger Stone, who I know, I actually know Roger Stone, he was on this show and, you know, go figure, a couple of weeks back. But he mentioned your name and then he backtracked and said he didn’t have any communication with you. But he has tossed things around.

CREDICO: Roger Stone is a rather canny spin master. And we have not had any communications with him whatsoever.

UPDATE 3.0: That’s provably false.

MELBER: In that exchange, you mentioned him and Assange says he doesn’t have direct communication. The allegation from Mr. Stone is that you are the intermediary, between Assange and him.

CREDICO: It depends on what you mean by a back channel. I think Roger Stone has downgraded my participation as a back channel into someone who has confirmed. First he said he had direct communications with Assange, and you he’s downgraded that and it’s to the point where I confirmed. I had Assange on three times and we had a lot of conversations, I did his show and I have no idea some of the things I may have said to him, but certainly did not pass any information from Julian Assange to Roger Stone.

MELBER: You flatly deny that Stone allegation? I want to dig more into that, because before we go deep into that, because you’re not only here to talk about Roger Stone, your relationship with Assange, which is newsworthy, I want to play a little bit of Julian Assange in 2016, this is a critical period. He was touted about the upcoming leaks.

Ok, then it gets a bit weird:

MELBER: On August 8, you have Stone saying that he communicated with Assange and that a torrent of Clinton email documents would come out in this so-called “October surprise.” That’s August 8, are you saying by referencing his timeline, that that’s not something Stone would have gotten from you at that time?

CREDICO: You know what? You’re going to do a Tricky Dick Richard Nixon on me, I’m going to come right back and do some impressions with you.

MELBER: I know you do impressions.

CREDICO: Are you buying time or are you telling me that that’s a lie.

“Yes, he did impressions. It got even more nutty in the second interview.”

It’s just kind of strange. On the one hand Credico claims that Roger Stone lied-he was NOT his intermediary-which would make Stone guilty of perjury. Still, Credico continues to exchange emails every week like Stone didn’t just like about him in Congress in a way that could make himself a person of interest.

UPDATE 4.0

The issue of who Stone’s intermediary was became an issue of great focus and consequence for Mueller. Stone’s claim to Congress in October, 2017 that Credico was his intermediary became the basis of his being indicted for perjury-with his criminal trial coming up in November of this year.

It’s always been a bit complicated as it’s clear from the emails and texts between Stone and Credico during the few months prior to the leak of the Podesta emails that Credico certainly sold himself to Stone as an intermediary-with his ties to Assange’s lawyer-and her father; Assange actually lives in her father’s apartment in NYC.

It’s clear that Credico was supposed to be an intermediary for Stone but he was not the intermediary for where Stone learned about the Podesta emails from.

Again you also have that Washington Post story that Stone actually knew about the Podesta emails in April of 2016-which is tough to explain with everything else we have regarding Stone and Corsi’s communications.

You wonder what explains this? You also wonder if-even if Credico didn’t give him the Podesta emails-if Credico ever provided him with any important information?

As we know from Stone and Corsi’s role in Comeygate-documented in his own book-has anyone read this book but me?-even things not reported by the MSM still go bump in the night.

UPDATE 2.0: After Mueller indicted Roger Stone in January more came out regarding his relationship with G2.