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This was the week I’d hoped to finally land the plane that is this book-I started it on December 15, 2017 and had hoped to have had it finished before the Spring of 2018-back when I was still a candidate for NY2 Congress. But the news keeps coming and I wanted this to be as comprehensive as possible so…

And while Mueller was quiet during the election period, Mueller news is back with a vengeance this week with Thanksgiving done. The Corsi-Stone news has almost been overshadowed by all the huge developments with Manafort-including even the possibility that Manfort himself met with Assange-which is astonishing in its own way. When news of his plea deal with Mueller hit in September, the thinking was that he could tell us what he know about Stone’s communications with Wikileaks and indeed reports later confirmed that Mueller was very interested in what Manafort knew about Stone and Wikileaks. 

Then in a buried lede in a Wall St. scoop Stone admitted to speaking to ‘briefly’ speaking with  Manafort about the Wikileaks’ email releases but supposedly only after Manafort had stepped down as documented in (Chapter A) another claim that doesn’t pass the laugh test-does anyone believe Stone was only willing to speak about it with Manafort after he was fired?

While there seems to be a split consensus on wether to believe the story about Manafort himself having spoken to Assange, the fact that Mueller has now been revealed to investigating Manafort’s 2017 meeting with the Ecuadorian President makes the story somewhat more plausible.

But with all the focus on Trump’s campaign manager’s lost plea deal, Corsi has also rejected his plea deal insisting that he didn’t commit perjury in denying sending Stone an email urging him to meet Assange he just forgot as we saw in (Chapter B). 

Since then a couple more big stories on Corsi have emerged: he had already wanted us to believe that he didn’t have prior knowledge that Podesta would be the subject of Wikileaks’ dump, he just made a lucky guess. Now it turns out, what he wants us to believe gets even more absurd as demonstrated in his interview with Anna Schecter

It turns out that Corsi did much more than just predict Podesta would be the subject. He also correctly predicted the exact timing.

Two months before WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Clinton campaign, right-wing conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi sent an email to former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone anticipating the document dump, according to draft court papers obtained by NBC News.

“Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps,” Corsi wrote on Aug. 2, 2016, referring to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to the draft court papers. “One shortly after I’m back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging.”

The email was revealed in a draft court document, known as a statement of the offense, sent to Corsi by special counsel Robert Mueller’s office. Mueller also sent Corsi a draft plea agreementstipulating that the special counsel would not oppose Corsi requesting a sentence of probation if he agreed to plead guilty to one count of lying to federal investigators.

As NBC News reported on Monday, Corsi said he has rejected the deal. He has described Mueller’s team as “thugs” and insisted that he did not “intentionally lie” about his communications related to WikiLeaks.

The old I lied but I didn’t know I was lying defense.

The draft court documents obtained by NBC News provide the most extensive account to date of Corsi’s contact with Mueller’s prosecutors.

The interviews began on Sept. 6 when Corsi told investigators that an associate, identified by Corsi as Stone, asked him in the summer of 2016 to get in touch with an organization, identified by Corsi as WikiLeaks, about unreleased materials relevant to the presidential campaign, the draft court papers say.

So let’s be clear-wether you believe Corsi’s rather fantastic prevarications or not, Roger Stone is clearly implicated here. On July 25, Roger Stone directly ordered Corsi to go to visit Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy to get the emails.

“Get to (Assange) [a]t Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending (WikiLeaks) emails,” read the email to Corsi dated July 25, 2016, according to the draft court documents.”

At this point-forget about if you really believe Manafort met with Assange in person or not. I mean we will have to see what Mueller’s sentencing documents say regarding what it is that Manafort lied about-presumably if it’s true, Mueller knows this and it will be included in his filing documents against Trump’s campaign manager.

But even if for now you refuse to believe the Guardian story, these emails between Stone and Corsi demonstrate collusion that is as clear as day. The only possible defense for Trump now is that Stone wasn’t part of the campaign and that he never spoke to him. This doesn’t pass the laugh test either. While Stone was officially let go in August, 2015-due to his turf war with Corey Lewandowski-Stone always does his best work in the shadows anyway-in Trumpworld official titles mean little anyway.

Indeed, it recently emerged that while Stone was telling everyone in the Summer and Fall of 2016 about his communications with Assange he was also boasting of his access to the Trump campaign and Trump himself and that-of course-he told Trump about it. Indeed he sold himself to the Trump campaign as a pipeline to Assange.  We saw the emails he sent to Bannon about the coming Assange dumps. (Find chapter)

So at that point the only way you could really absolve him-and the Trump campaign-was the George Constanza defense-nobody takes me seriously, I’m not a credible person (Chapter C).

But these emails make clear that Stone wasn’t making it up.

As for Corsi, the perjury is that he claims to have turned down Stone’s proposal that he speak to Assange about the emails.

Corsi said he declined the request and made clear to Stone that an attempt to contact WikiLeaks could put them in investigators’ crosshairs, according to the draft court documents.

But Mueller’s team said that was a lie.Instead of turning down the request, Corsi in fact passed it along to a person in London, according to the draft court documents.

And who was this person in London?

Corsi said that person was conservative author Ted Malloch.”

As we saw in (Chapter D) Malloch was arrested and detained at the airport in March, 2018 and questioned about Wikileaks and Roger Stone.

So Malloch is who spoke directly to Assange?

Eight days later, Corsi sent the email to Stone saying that WikiLeaks possessed information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign and planned to release it in October.”

Based on what Malloch told him?

“Time to let more than (Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta) to be exposed as in bed w enemy if they are not ready to drop HRC (Hillary Rodham Clinton),” Corsi added in the Aug. 2, 2016, email, according to the draft court papers. “That appears to be the game hackers are now about.”

So Assange spoke to Malloch about Russian hackers?

How would Corsi have any idea what the *hackers* “game” was about? The hackers were Russian intelligence agents. https://t.co/Idm3VjLHqn

— Scott Stedman (indefinite hiatus) (@ScottMStedman) November 28, 2018

On Oct. 7, 2016, WikiLeaks released the first of two batches of emails that Russian hackers stole from Podesta, altering the trajectory of the presidential race.”

When discussing the possibility of collusion coordination between the Trump campaign, Wikileaks, and Russia, October 7 is a key moment as it seems plausible that releasing it under two hours after Hollywood Access was hardly a ‘coincidence’-which in any case take a lot of planning.

But as with everything regarding Watergate 2.0-wether Russiagate or Comeygate-it’s even worse than that.

Mueller’s team says in the court papers that Corsi scrubbed his computer between Jan. 13, 2017, and March 1, 2017, deleting all email correspondence that predated Oct. 11, 2016, including the messages from Stone about WikiLeaks and Corsi’s email to Malloch

Scrubbed?! Did you say scrubbed? It’s just that a big part of the faux outrage over Clinton was the idea that she had a ‘home brewed server’ and that she ‘scrubbed it.’ Corsi and Stone were both obsessed with her emails. As we saw in (Chapter A) Stone and Corsi are also co-conspirators on the other Watergate 2.0 scandal-Comeygate-that the media doesn’t like to talk about as their own bad reporting is so directly implicated by it-but suffice to say, thanks to Stone’s big mouth we know-though this ‘we’ is very small prior to this book at least-that Stone and Coris know an awful lot about who the rogue agents at the FBI who forced Comey’s hand are and they also apparently have inside knowledge-with Coris in particular having inside involvement-with the mystery of just how Huma Abedin’s emails got on Weiner’s laptop that the anti Clinton agents at the NYPD just happened to ‘find.’

Regarding Clinton’s ‘scrubbed emails’ her lawyers were following the rules which called for her to hand over State Department related emails while holding on to her own private correspondences. That’s what the rules actually call for-it was she not Comey leading the Emailgate investigation who followed the rules, much less GOP co-conspirators like Stone and Corsi. So after all this, Corsi scrubbed  his own computer of all emails prior to October 11, 2016,. which first and foremost demonstrates his clear consciousness of guilt.

Note that the time period in which he scrubbed his emails-between January 13, 2017 and March 1, 2017 was not only prior to Rod Rosenstein’s appointment of a Special Counsel but Comey’s Congressional testimony in March of that year confirming for the first time the existence of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into Russian interference and possible Trump campaign coordination. Clearly Corsi knew pretty quickly that his emails were damning.

And it just keeps getting better:

“Corsi remained in contact with Stone in 2017 when the former Trump adviser’s connections to WikiLeaks came under investigation by the FBI and congressional committees, according to the draft court papers.”

“On Nov. 30, 2017, Stone emailed Corsi asking him to write about a person whom Stone had told congressional investigators was his “source” or “intermediary” to WikiLeaks, according to the draft court papers.”

That person, of course, was Randy Credico who we’ve written about in previous chapters (X).

“Are you sure you want to make something out of this now?” Corsi responded, according to the draft court papers. “Why not wait to see what (Credico) does? You may be defending yourself too much — raising new questions that will fuel new inquiries. This may be a time to say less, not more.”

Stone responded by telling Corsi that Credico will “take the 5th — but let’s hold a day,” the draft court document says.

This clearly confirms that Credico was Stone’s cover story-his attempt at a head fake in covering up the really damning correspondence he had with Corsi-though as noted in (Chapter Y) Credico is a rather questionable figure in his own right who did appear in their emails and texts to have information on what Assange had on Clinton-Chapter A.

Then there’s the astonishing fact that Credico setup a Bernie Sanders supporters for Trump group and that he has a close relationship to Margaret Kunstler one of Wikileaks’ top lawyers-which suggests Credico himself did also have inside information to offer Stone.

Again, Corsi’s explanations only get more fantastic the more he elaborates.

“In the interviews, the draft court papers say, Corsi said that his claims to Stone, beginning in 2016, that he had a way of obtaining confidential information from WikiLeaks were false.”

“Corsi, the former Washington bureau chief of the conspiracy theory outlet InfoWars, has told NBC News that he had no direct or indirect contact with WikiLeaks. Corsi claims to have anticipated WikiLeaks’ release of the hacked emails by “connecting the dots” between public statements from Assange and other available materials.

“Why did I think they were coming out in October? Because I said to myself if I had these emails I’d use them as the October surprise,” Corsi told NBC News on Tuesday. “And why did I think they would come out serially, drip by drip? Because Assange is very strategic. He understands the news cycle.”

So he admitted to telling Stone the exact thing that has Corsi in such trouble now-that he had a back channel to Wikileaks. But he wants us to believe he was lying then not lying now. This is the recurring explanation of all the Trump co-conspirators-including Trump himself-Russia, are you listening? 

Again, as suggested in (Chapter D), Corsi is using the George Constanza defense, as is Stone, as is Credico-who boasts of sending Michael Isikoff fake emails for his book-as is Rob Goldstone, as is Trump himself.

People don’t take me seriously! I’m not a serious person! I have no credibility! Everyone knows I make stuff up just to make myself sound important. 

That’s the only way Stone can explain Podesta’s time in the barrel, I’ve communicated with Assange-or his pre August 1, 2016 suggestion that Russia was behind the hacks; it’s how Stone can avoid implicating the Trump campaign-sure I said was communicating with Assange and telling Trump all about it but that’s just me, Roger Stone; I make things up like everybody knows. 

It’s how Goldstone now attempts (Chapter E) to explain his email to Donald Jr about dirt on Clinton as part of the Russian government’s support for your father’s campaign and about his assertion in the email of Aras Agalarov’s agreeing to the meeting after talking the Russian ‘Crown Prosecutor’-I was just making things up, the fact that Natalia Vesslentiskaya really did discuss the meeting with Russia’s top prosecutor beforehand is just another coincidence. 

Corsi has been playing the game that his accurate predictions to Roger Stone-for who he was providing opposition research-not only that Podesta was the target of the coming Wikileaks email dump, but the actual timing of the dumps was just because he made some very educated guesses.

But now we have evidence that Corsi actually told Stone he has connections to Wikileaks but that he was just lying. Sure,: I’m a pathlogical liar why would you believe anything I say, I’m a total liar.-until now… 

Believe nothing I’ve ever said until now…

But in a letter drafted by Gray and addressed to Mueller’s team, Corsi’s lawyer argued that he should not be charged with a crime based on a faulty memory.

“I understand that this plea to making a false claim is predicated on the fact that Dr. Corsi had emails and phone calls wherein he was in fact interested in WikiLeaks,” Gray wrote.

“He had not had the benefit of reviewing all of his emails prior to the interview and you graciously allowed him to review his emails and amend his statements — which he did. Now, after various amendments to his statements, Dr. Corsi is being asked to affirmatively state that he lied to FBI agents. The issue is that the statements that Dr. Corsi made were, in fact, the best he could recall at the time.”

Maybe his memory would have been better had he not scrubbed his emails pre October 11, 2016.

“Gray also noted that if Corsi were to plead guilty, he would have to give up his securities license and cease his online chats until sentencing, depriving him of crucial sources of income.”

I don’t know about you Dear Reader but the very idea breaks my heart.

“Daniel Goldman, a former federal prosecutor who is now a legal analyst for NBC News and MSNBC, said the documents suggest that Mueller has more on Corsi than is laid out in the draft court papers.

“Based on reviewing these documents, I believe that the office of the special counsel may have more evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Corsi beyond the false statements, and that is why they engaged in plea negotiations,” Goldman said.

Goldman also said that the documents indicate that Mueller and his investigators are “really circling Stone.”

“He is a clear target of the investigation,” Goldman added.

“Stone, who has repeatedly insisted that he had no advanced knowledge of the WikiLeaks email dump, said Tuesday that the newly-released emails don’t suggest otherwise.”

“None of these emails provide any evidence or proof that I knew in advance about the source or content of any of the allegedly stolen or allegedly hacked emails published by WikiLeaks,” Stone said.

“Since when did gossip become a criminal offense? Where is the WikiLeaks collaboration? Where is the evidence that I received anything whatsoever from WikiLeaks and passed it on to Donald Trump? These emails prove nothing other than the fact that Jerry Corsi is an aggressive investigative reporter.”

Uh, actually, we have Stone asking Corsi to speak to Assange on July 24, 2016, and then just over a week later-on August 2-Corsi correctly predicting Podesta’s emails were coming out in October.

Then on August 21 came Stone’s infamous  tweet: Soon it will be Podesta’s time in the barrel. 

“Conservative activist Jerome Corsi, a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, said Tuesday he told a federal grand jury he helped longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone create a “cover story” for a 2016 tweet that appeared to foreshadow email releases by WikiLeaks.

Mr. Stone’s tweet on Aug. 21 of that year read: “Trust me, it will soon the Podesta’s time in the barrel.” Weeks later, emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta were dumped online by WikiLeaks, raising questions about whether Mr. Stone had early knowledge of the emails and the plans to release them. Officials say the messages were stolen by Russia and turned over to WikiLeaks for release in hopes of damaging Mrs. Clinton’s campaign.