Stone Trial Wraps With Gates Testimony On What Trump Knew About Wikileaks | Talking Points Memo

The final prosecution witness Tuesday against Roger Stone was former Trump campaign advisor Rick Gates, who testified about what President Trump may have known in 2016 about Wikileaks plans to release hacked Democratic emails.


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Fox News will be up with headlines and 24/7 reporting about Trump lying under oath to Mueller in 3 
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Nah. Fuck it.

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Mueller asked Trump if he was “aware of any communications during the campaign, directly or indirectly” between Stone, Manafort, Gates, or Donald Trump Jr., and representatives of Wikileaks or the other websites that posted hacked emails.

“I do not recall being aware during the campaign of any communications between the individuals named in Question II (c) and anyone I understood to be a representative of WikiLeaks or any of the other individuals or entities referred to in the question,” Trump said.

Cue the GOP tap company to try dancing out of “Clinton was different since he lied in a deposition.”

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Yeah. Trump had written questions. And unlimited time to come up with answers written by his attorneys.

Totally unfair.

Perjury trap.

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“Gates admitted in his testimony that he could not hear Stone’s side of the July conversation, according to the Washington Post. However, he testified that he was not aware of anyone else who would have been providing information about Wikileaks to the campaign at that time.”

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“I do not recall being aware during the campaign of any communications between the individuals named in Question II © and anyone I understood to be a representative of WikiLeaks or any of the other individuals or entities referred to in the question,” Trump said.

Graham: “he clearly misremembered”

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Again, I must quote Bill Maher in response to:

“I have no recollection of the specifics of any conversations I had with Mr. Stone between June 1.2016 and November 8, 2016,” Trump said. “I do not recall discussing WikiLeaks with him, nor do I recall being aware of Mr. Stone having discussed WikiLeaks with individuals associated with my campaign, although I was aware that WikiLeaks was the subject of media reporting and campaign-related discussion at the time.”

“If you cannot RECALL if you sent a dick pick, you sent a dick pick.”

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Quid pro blow.

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“I have no recollection of the specifics of any conversations I had with Mr. Stone between June 1.2016 and November 8, 2016,” Trump said.

He continued, “But whatever they were, they were perfect. I assure you.”

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I think the perjury count will be a nice addition to the impeachment charges.

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The Reverend? Or Ms. Lindsey? Either way, I’m confused. Both seem plausible.

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Add it to the Trump impeachment bill of particulars. LOCK HIM UP.

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A/the list of calls from Trump and his personal staff to Stone have been known for a couple of months. Marcy Wheeler found them in the pre-trial docs for the Stone trial. On 10/4/16 these calls were made:

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O/T: Is this type of campaign advertising effective? Maybe with the “soft support, tRump curious”?

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Graham: “I’m tired of these Democrat outlets making fun of my manhood. I was a six time ‘Mr. South Carolina’ and that makes me ‘every cougar’s crush’ and ‘every belle’s dreamboat’.”

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“I do not recall if I robbed the First National Bank.”

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He needs to talk to Ambassador Sondland and get instructions on memory “Refresh”
Comes in very handy when lying to Congress

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Wonder how many nano-seconds it’ll be before those voters have their entire lives looked into for anything naughty or that they were a closet liberal or whatever


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Veering a bit off-topic, I wonder whether Stone --if convicted and jailed-- would tattoo Trump’s likeness on his chest in exchange for a pardon?

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So would Trump’s answers be hearsay since we know this is not how he talks, this is not how he communicates?
If one is supplying written responses to questions then he was under oath, correct?

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