Roger Stone, a longtime political consultant, said Friday that CNBC got “bull-schiffed” by the sources telling the outlet that he had become a primary focus of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.
The longtime Trump adviser made the reference, embraced by critics of Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, as he made allegations that there is a “left-wing conspiracy theory” to undo the results of the 2016 election.
CNBC reported this week that Mueller is looking into the relationship between Stone and former Trump campaign official Rick Gates.
Stone, who has already denied having any relationship with Gates, told Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, that the whole ordeal is a “fairy tale.”
“A left-wing conspiracy theory that is the basis for a rogue operation to undo the results of the last election,” Stone said Friday evening. He said this after suggesting that it was his decades-long friendship with Trump that attracted the attention of Mueller.
The Mueller-led investigation is looking into Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.
Carlson pointed out that Gates was indicted and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and making false claims to investigators as part of the Mueller investigation.
Stone answered by repeating what he told the Daily Caller, that reporting that said he shared multiple dinners with Gates was false and that the one meal they did share focused on the selection of New York delegates to the Republican National Convention after Trump swept the New York primary.
“This whole thing is based on conjecture, speculation, supposition. But no facts,” Stone told Carlson. “My contacts with Rick Gates during the campaign were minimal and innocuous. I hate to say this but I think the source for the CNBC story, I think they got ‘bull-schiffed.'”
