Tag Archives: Roger Stone

The Daily Beast reports: The brother of Jeff Bezos’ mistress, Lauren Sanchez, supplied the couple’s racy texts to the National Enquirer, multiple sources inside AMI, the tabloid’s parent company, told The Daily Beast. Another source who has been in extensive communication with senior leaders at AMI confirmed that Michael Sanchez first supplied Bezos’ texts to the Enquirer. As The Daily …

Courthouse News reports: Roger Stone took a constitutional stand Friday against a potential gag order that will bar him from talking to the press about the charges leveled against him by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. “There should be no imposition of prior restraint on Mr. Stone’s First Amendment free speech rights,” the filing says. Robert Buschel called the impact on …

Law & Crime reports: Jerome Corsi, former associate of Roger Stone, is now suing him over statements he made on InfoWars, as well as alleged threats that he says were meant to keep him from testifying in his criminal case. The complaint, filed in D.C. federal court on Thursday, says that in statements made on the right-wing site in January, …

Politico reports: A federal judge said Friday she’s considering slapping a gag order on Roger Stone, the longtime Donald Trump associate who has been on a media blitz since being charged a week ago with lying to Congress and obstructing lawmakers’ Russia investigation. In the first hearing in Stone’s case — brought by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of …

CNN reports: Information the Justice Department collected from Roger Stone’s iCloud accounts, email accounts and on computer hardware “span several years,” special counsel Robert Mueller said Thursday. Mueller wants to place a protective order that would lock down the confidentiality of evidence collected against Stone, as the prosecutors begin sharing the documents with his legal team. Stone’s attorneys have consented …

The far-right Daily Caller reports: President Donald Trump is considering asking the FBI to review its policies after the agency’s highly-publicized, militarized raid on the home of longtime Trump associate Roger Stone early Friday morning. The president told The Daily Caller in an exclusive Oval Office interview Wednesday that he was “speaking for a lot of people that were very …

The Hill reports: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has requested that the FBI give a briefing to the panel about last week’s arrest of longtime GOP operative and former informal Trump adviser Roger Stone. Graham sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Wednesday expressing concerns about the “manner” in which Stone was …

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: Waiting outside the courthouse were a gaggle of members of the right-wing hate group the Proud Boys, including Stone mentee Jacob Engels, Big League Politics writer Luke Rohlfing, and Proud Boys president Enrique Tarrio. Rohlfing told us he financed his own trip to Washington for the arraignment hearing. The Proud Boys have been …

ABC News reports: President Donald Trump’s longtime political adviser and confidante Roger Stone pleaded not guilty in a federal courthouse in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, where the self-described “dirty trickster” is being arraigned on a seven-count indictment brought by special counsel Robert Mueller. Stone arrived at court Tuesday morning amid a barrage of cheers from supporters and jeers from protesters, who …

“Robert Mueller can send armed men to your home to roust you from bed at gunpoint just because he feels like it and there’s nothing you or anyone else can do about it. Mueller has an unlimited budget and no timetable. He doesn’t have to answer questions. He can do whatever he wants whenever he wants to whomever he wants. …

The New York Daily News reports: Osama bin Laden was fatally shot in the head and had his remains thrown in the Arabian Sea — but Roger Stone claimed Monday he has been treated far worse than the brutal terror leader. The longtime confidant to President Trump — who was arrested during a dramatic pre-dawn raid last week following his …

The Advocate reports: In light of the news that Roger Stone, the longtime adviser to Donald Trump, was arrested Friday as a result of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, political satirist Randy Rainbow has released a new parody of a classic Broadway show tune. Rainbow’s “The Donald Trump Cell Block Tango (Part One)” is peppered with humor, but it’s also …

Mediaite reports: Fox & Friends covered Friday’s indictment of Roger Stone on Monday morning and brought on frequent guest Dan Bongino to provide the same exact commentary he provides on Fox & Friends every single time that he comes on. In short: liberal media bad, there was no collusion, the president is very good. “The problem is we were all …

Politico reports: Jerome Corsi, a conservative author and conspiracy theorist, said Sunday that he would be happy to testify against Roger Stone and let his testimony about what occurred during the 2016 presidential election and whether anyone coordinated with WikiLeaks’ efforts to undermine Hillary Clinton’s campaign “speak for itself.” “I will be happy to testify if — I would suspect …

ABC News reports: Roger Stone, following a pre-dawn arrest at his home in Florida and ahead of an arraignment in Washington on Tuesday, said that he would discuss cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, if asked. “You know, that’s a question I would have to –- I have to determine after my attorneys have some discussion,” Stone told ABC News’ …

“Instead of notifying the attorney and requesting he bring his client in for arraignment — standard protocol in cases like Stone’s — the Mueller team decides on Gestapo tactics. Seventeen vehicles including armors trucks, lights flashing, a bullhorn. They begin to banging on Stone’s home, yelling, ‘FBI — open the door.’ The only people home were Stone, his wife, and …

NBC News reports: Steve Martin returned to “Saturday Night Live” this week to display his version of former adviser to President Donald Trump, Roger Stone. Fox News’ Tucker Carlson, played by Alex Moffat, portrayed Stone, a sometimes weight lifter, as a man so old and decrepit that he’s “barely able to post shirtless photos of his jacked body.” Stone was …

The Hill reports: President Trump late Saturday railed against the indictment of Roger Stone, insisting that he did not work with his long-time confidant “anywhere near the Election” and complaining that the focus should instead be on obstacles his campaign faced in 2016. In a series of tweets, Trump cited allegations in Stone’s indictment that data was released during the …

ABC News reports: President Donald Trump again addressed Roger Stone’s indictment on Twitter early Saturday, saying if Stone is charged with lying to Congress, the former FBI and CIA officials who were involved in the early days of the investigation into Russian election interference should be as well. There is no evidence that the former officials mentioned by Trump — …

The Hill reports: Former informal Trump adviser Roger Stone said late Friday following his indictment in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe that he has “never” discussed a possible presidential pardon with President Trump. “I have never had any discussion with him or communication with him regarding that. I have no idea what he might do,” Stone said on CNN’s “Cuomo …