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Old 03-09-2017, 04:57 PM   #5741
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Another Trump campaign adviser/confidant Roger Stone is found to have been in contact with Russian hackers during Trump's campaign. Basically at this point I'm left wondering who inside Trumps government is not in bed with the Ruskies.

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The longtime Trump confidante allegedly exchanged Twitter DMs with the hackers.

Every day I think to myself, "There's no way that Donald Trump's administration can get scarier." I mean, they're already the answer to what would happen if Voldemort's Death Eaters worked at LexCorp. But then, invariably, I turn on the news and #### gets even spookier. Today's addition to the "Oh, there really is no bottom this pit we're falling down, huh?" report is about longtime Trump confidante and former adviser Roger Stone. According to The Smoking Gun Stone reportedly exchanged direct messages on Twitter with "Guccifer 2.0", who was at the epicenter of the election hacks.

The contact between Roger Stone, the Trump associate, and the Russian influence operation came via private messages exchanged on Twitter, according to a source. Stone’s contact was with “Guccifer 2.0,” an online persona that U.S. officials say was created by Russian government officials to distribute and publicize material stolen during hacks of the DNC, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Gmail accounts used by Clinton staffers like John Podesta, the campaign's chairman.
When asked for comment about this allegation, Stone told The Smoking Gun that he "didn't recall" and that he believed his entire communication with the account was public. And of course Stone did communicate with Guccifer publicly and even praised the account in no uncertain terms for the world to see.

If there was DM communication between Stone and this Russian propaganda account, it may also help explain how Stone knew about Podesta's emails being hacked DAYS before that was made public and they began leaking.

Stone also has bragged about being a back channel to Julian Assange, but has since deleted those tweets.
This is the same Roger Stone that said he had a backdoor to Assange
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"I do have a back-channel communication with Assange, because we have a good mutual friend,” Stone told CBS4 News Wednesday evening. “That friend travels back and forth from the United States to London and we talk. I had dinner with him last Monday.”
http://www.gq.com/story/trump-adviso...r-stone-russia
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