Trump Campaign Consultant Admits Contacts With DNC Hacker
Roger Stone, former campaign adviser and longtime to Donald Trump, admitted on Friday that he had private conversations with the hacker involved in the Russian hacking and leak of the DNC last year.
In an interview with the Washington Times, Stone tried to suggest that the conversations were “completely innocuous.”
“It was so perfunctory, brief and banal I had forgotten it,” Stone said about his private Twitter conversation with the hacker known as “Guccifer 2.0.”
The United States intelligence community believes that Guccifer 2.0 is a cover for Russian intelligence and have concluded that Moscow ran the hacking and disinformation campaign to help Trump win the election.
During one exchange between the two Guccifer 2.0 asked Stone, “do u find anything interesting in the docs i posted?”
On August 17 Guccifer 2.0 wrote to Stone, “i’m pleased to say that u r great man.” And, “please tell me if i can help u anyhow. it would be a great pleasure to me.”
