Trump ally Roger Stone believes FBI agent Peter Strzok set up his meeting with a Russian national offering political dirt on Hillary Clinton in exchange for $2 million as part of Strzok’s alleged “insurance policy.”
“I think it’s the first known example of the Peter Strzok insurance policy,” Stone said during an interview on Fox News late Wednesday. “I think it was an FBI plant seeking to entrap me and compromise Trump.”
The Washington Post reported on Sunday that Stone and former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo were contacted in May 2016 by a man identifying himself as Henry Greenberg, who claimed to have damaging information on Clinton.
Stone met with Greenberg at a restaurant in Florida, but told Caputo in a text message afterwards that it had been a “waste of time” because Greenberg wanted “big” money for the opposition research.
Both Stone and Caputo allege that the meeting was a setup by U.S. law enforcement during the 2016 campaign to pin then-candidate Donald Trump with Russian collusion.
In a 2015 court filing reviewed by the Post that related to his immigration status, Greenberg said he was a Russian national who had provided information to the FBI for 17 years. However, the Post noted there was no evidence to suggest Greenberg was working for the FBI in his interactions with Stone.
The meeting with Stone, who previously told Congress he did not have any contact with Russians in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, is being scrutinized by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of the federal Russia investigation.
Strzok is the FBI agent, formerly assigned to Mueller’s Russia probe, who wrote anti-Trump text messages to Lisa Page, his FBI colleague and mistress, during the 2016 campaign. In one disparaging email, Strzok suggested an “insurance policy” against a Trump victory.
