Special counsel Robert Mueller is looking into President Trump’s longtime friend Roger Stone after he wrote in a 2016 email that he met with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a report Monday.
Although Stone did not have an official role on Trump’s presidential campaign, newly obtained emails by the Wall Street Journal indicate he was in communication and personally met with Assange around the time WikiLeaks published emails from Democratic National Committee and other party officials to hurt Trump’s then-rival Hillary Clinton.
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