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Trump praises Roger Stone for having ‘guts’

By Caitlin Yilek
Published December 3, 2018 4:59pm ET
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Trump praises Roger Stone for having ‘guts’
Longtime Donald Trump associate Roger Stone arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2017, in Washington. Stone says there is "not one shred of evidence" that he was involved with Russian interference in the 2016 election. Stone's interview comes as the House and Senate intelligence panels are looking into the Russian meddling and possible links to Trump's campaign. | (J. Scott Applewhite/AP)

President Trump praised his longtime confidant Roger Stone for his insistence he would not betray Trump in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

Stone vowed Sunday he would never testify against the president, days after former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal he pursued on Trump’s behalf during the 2016 campaign.

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