Right-wing author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi said Wednesday he wants his former associate Roger Stone to stop with the “defamatory” comments against him.
Corsi was part of a quartet of people who have piqued the interest of special counsel Robert Mueller and will face questions Wednesday on live TV regarding their experiences with the Mueller’s federal Russia investigation.
Along with Corsi, Carter Page, Michael Caputo, and Sam Nunberg appeared on MSNBC to discuss Mueller’s Russia inquiry after each of them spoke to federal investigators or were called before one of the grand juries helping the probe.
Corsi, who claims he has cooperated for about 40 hours with Mueller’s office, accused his former associate Roger Stone, a longtime Trump confidant, of tarnishing his reputation as they try to distance themselves from allegations they had prior knowledge of WikiLeaks email dumps that were damaging to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. WikiLeaks’ actions ahead of the 2016 election is one of the areas being looked at by Mueller’s team. Corsi said he was additionally upset with InfoWars, his ex-employer.
“And defamatory. They’re both in on this whole idea that I had hush money. This started really with the Washington Post I guess last Friday circulating, saying coming from the Mueller prosecutors, that I was being paid hush money by Dr. Jones, the father of Alex Jones,” Corsi said. “The termination letter is available, I published it this morning. It was severance pay, it was not hush money. They are also alleging, the Washington Post was saying I was paid by the NRA, which is being paid by Russia and that contributed to InfoWars. Well, my paychecks had nothing to do with Russia. I’ve had no contacts with Russia.”
Corsi’s comment drew ire from Caputo, an ex-Trump campaign aide, who defended Stone.
“I’m saying that Roger, in his broadcasts, has been defamatory and I want it stopped,” Corsi said.
Mueller witness Michael Caputo to Mueller witness Jerome Corsi:
“A lot of the things you say about Roger I think are steering him toward a perjury charge” and “none of” what you say “ads up” pic.twitter.com/mbT45MlMkR
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) January 23, 2019
Stone last month accused Corsi of “working with Mueller to sandbag” him “on a fabricated perjury charge” on social media.
Page, the former Trump 2016 campaign foreign policy adviser at the center of a government surveillance controversy, said his “gut sense” was that his questioners disapproved of the Mueller investigation’s direction.
“I think that’s a tactic they use to build a rapport,” Nunberg, another ex-Trump campaign aide, responded.
NEW: Mueller witness Carter Page says his “gut sense” was that FBI Agents questioning him disagreed with direction of Mueller probe
Sam Nunberg: “I think that’s a tactic they use to build a raport” pic.twitter.com/I5JDGMkWQs
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) January 23, 2019
