The Fix’s Aaron Blake analyzes Roger Stone’s indictment and what it means for special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia probe. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
The big one: Repeated references to Trump campaign contacts about WikiLeaks — and a possible reference to Trump?
The indictment we — including the indicted party — have been expecting for months has finally come. Roger Stone, President Trump’s longest-serving political adviser, has been charged with lying to investigators.
The alleged lies pertain to his efforts to secure information from WikiLeaks about its release of Democrats’ emails during the 2016 campaign. Here are four key sections and takeaways.
[Document: Read the indictment against Roger Stone]
1. An abundance of contradiction
There’s really not a lot of ambiguity when it comes to Stone’s alleged lies. At one point, the indictment includes two exchanges in which Stone denies ever communicating with his WikiLeaks intermediary via text or email.
View the complete January 25 article by Aaron Blake on The Washington Post website here.