One major component of that legacy is the prosecution Roger Stone, President Donald Trump’s longtime ally and friend, who is facing charges of misleading Congress, obstructing justice and intimidating a witness. He is currently scheduled to go to trial in November 2019, an event that could refocus the nation’s attention on Trump’s complicity with Russia’s attacks on the 2016 election. It could also expose troubling new details about Trump’s connections to WikiLeaks.
As reporter Marcy Wheeler noted in a new blog post Thursday about the Stone case, many of the most intriguing redactions in the Mueller report relate to right-wing firebrand. The Justice Department, with good reason, redacted information related to Stone to preserve his right to a fair trial.
View the complete May 30 article by Cody Fenwick from AlterNet on the National Memo website here.