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Roger Stone wanted WikiLeaks dump to distract from ‘Access Hollywood’ tape, Mueller witness says

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The revelation in The Washington Post of a tape of Donald Trump bragging about sexually assaulting women landed just after 4 p.m. on Oct. 7, 2016.

Less than an hour later, WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy organization founded by Julian Assange, began releasing hacked emails from the account of John Podesta, the chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign.

The striking simultaneity fulfilled the hope of Trump confidant Roger Stone, according to Jerome Corsi, a conservative author and former Stone associate who was subpoenaed over the summer for questioning by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

View the complete January 29 article by Isaac Stanley-Becker on The Washington Post website here.

From ‘Access Hollywood’ to Russia, Trump seeks to paint the rosiest picture

The following article by Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Philip Rucker was posted on the Washington Post website November 28, 2017:

President Trump talks to reporters as he departs from the White House with his family for the Thanksgiving holiday last week. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

President Trump has expressed certainty that the special-counsel probe into his campaign’s possible collusion with Russia will be finished by the end of the year, complete with an exoneration from Robert S. Mueller III, according to several friends who have spoken with him in recent days.

Trump has dismissed his historically low approval ratings as “fake” and boasted about what he calls the unprecedented achievements of his presidency, even while chatting behind the scenes, saying no president since Harry Truman has accomplished as much at this point. Continue reading “From ‘Access Hollywood’ to Russia, Trump seeks to paint the rosiest picture”

‘Access Hollywood’ fires back at Trump: ‘The tape is very real’

The following article by Jacqueline Thomsen was posted on the Hill website November 27, 2017:

“Access Hollywood” is responding to reports that President Trump doesn’t believe that the infamous tape of him on the program — bragging about groping and kissing women without their consent — is real.

“We wanted to clear something up that has been reported across the media landscape,” host Natalie Morales said during a Monday broadcast. Continue reading “‘Access Hollywood’ fires back at Trump: ‘The tape is very real’”

Trump Claims Access Hollywood Tape Is Fake

The following article by Tom Porter of Newsweek was posted on the National Memo website November 27, 2017:

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President Donald Trump now claims that the Access Hollywood tape on which he boasted of sexually assaulting women may not be genuine, according to a report in The New York Times.

On the tape, which surfaced weeks before the November 2016 presidential election, the former reality star can be heard bragging to TV presenter Billy Bush of grabbing women “by the pussy.”

Trump faced calls to step aside from the race after the tape went public, and apologized for the remarks, dismissing them as “locker room talk.” Continue reading “Trump Claims Access Hollywood Tape Is Fake”