Roger Stone, a longtime associate of President Trump, posted a video on Instagram denying what he says is a forthcoming New Yorker article that says he informed President Trump of an impending WikiLeaks dump of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta.
“Someone is saying that they overheard a conversation in which I told Donald Trump in October of 2016 what exactly would be in the WikiLeaks disclosures and when they would be disclosed,” Stone said in the video. “This is categorically false. This is exactly the epitome of fake news.”
“Let whoever is pushing this false narrative come forward and say it for the record with their name on it,” Stone added. “They won’t, because it is false.”
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Stone attracted scrutiny from investigators after he appeared to predict the publication of stolen documents on the WikiLeaks website. In 2016, he tweeted that John Podesta and his brother lobbyist Tony Podesta’s “time in the barrel” was soon coming.
But Stone has denied ever having any prior knowledge from WikiLeaks about the release of Podesta’s emails and has said the statement was based off of his own investigations of Podesta and his brother Tony.
The video Monday comes after Stone predicted that special counsel Robert Mueller, who is spearheading the federal investigation into Russian interference in 2016 and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, would indict him next. Several of Stone’s associates and his finances are being examined by Mueller’s team.
“Robert Mueller is coming for me,” Stone said in a Sunday email seeking donations to his legal fund.
“I’m next on the crooked special prosecutor’s hit list because I’ve advised Donald Trump for the past 39 years,” he continued. I am being targeted not because I committed a crime, but because the ‘deep state’ liberals want to silence me and pressure me to testify against my good friend President Donald J. Trump.”
[More: Roger Stone predicts Robert Mueller will ‘charge Donald Trump Jr. with lying to the FBI’]
WikiLeaks is well known for publishing leaked stolen secrets on its website. Among its controversial publications, the website has made public stolen emails from Democratic officials during the 2016 campaign as well as details on CIA hacking tools.
A U.S. intelligence community assessment determined with “high confidence” last January that WikiLeaks was used by Russian intelligence to release information as part of an effort to elect Trump. WikiLeaks denies this assertion.
