stone arrest prompts president trump to seek distractions and dredge up hillary clinton's emails

stone arrest prompts president trump to seek distractions and dredge up hillary clinton

The comments came hours after Stone, a self-described dirty trickster, was arrested by the FBI on charges of obstruction of justice, witness tampering and lying to Congress.Īccording to the indictment unsealed early Thursday by special counsel Robert Mueller, senior Trump campaign officials were directed to contact Stone about the release of Democratic emails stolen by Russia and published by WikiLeaks during the 2016 campaign. Sanders downplayed Stone as “somebody who has been a consultant for dozens of Republican presidents and candidates and members of Congress,” even though he had been known to speak frequently with Trump after leaving his campaign in 2015. “This is something that has to do solely with that individual.” “This has nothing to do with the president and certainly nothing to do with the White House,” Sanders said on CNN. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Friday said the arrest of former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone has no links to President Trump, seeking to distance the president from the ensnarement of one of his close associates in the Russia investigation.

Stone arrest prompts president trump to seek distractions and dredge up hillary clinton's emails