‘The Truth Looked Bad for Donald Trump.’ What We’re Learning from the Roger Stone Trial

The defense strategy, by contrast, is to paint their client as unreliable. Stone’s lawyers are arguing that their client is a braggart, not a felon, and that Stone’s many and public claims to have established a back-channel with Wikileaks was just “made-up stuff.”

On Wednesday at trial, the jury were shown emails from Stone that prosecutors allege demonstrate his foreknowledge of WikiLeaks dumps of hacked materials. In one email to Erik Prince, the Blackwater executive who was part of the larger Trump campaign orbit, Stone wrote: “spoke to my friend in London last night” — an apparent reference to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, then holed up at the Ecuador’s U.K. embassy — and that “the payload is still coming.

Day two has focused on the most serious charges Stone faces: witness tampering. According to the federal indictment, Stone sought to get Randy Credico, another alleged player in the Trump campaign’s contacts with WikiLeaks, to obstruct the House Intelligence committee’s investigation into the matter. The indictment captures Stone citing Richard Nixon in one text to Credico: “’Stonewall it. Plead the fifth. Anything to save the plan’ . . . Richard Nixon,” Stone wrote.

In trial Thursday, the prosecution has been presenting the Credico evidence, including angry messages Stone and Credico exchanged as the two had a falling out over the Congressional testimony. As recorded byreporter Darren Samuelsohn, the texts grew increasingly foul, almost to the point of farce: Parents cover your kids eyes for this one. Stone to Credico, 4/9/18: “I know u are a dumb shit but read the constitution. I have a constitutional right to call you a lightweight pantywaist cocksucker drunk asshole piece of shit and I just did.”If Stone is convicted he faces serious jail time, including as much as 20 years for witness tampering, and as much as five years each for six counts relating to obstructing and making false statements to Congress. The trial is expected to last three weeks.

Sometimes the truth hurts.

I wonder what kind of glue he uses to keep the toupee on.

This has completely been made out to be a complete circus. What’s going on in this court is Not due process.

The truth always looks bad on Donald Trump. That’s why he lies all the time

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