2016 ELECTION/FBI/HILLARY CLINTON/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Roger Stone, an informal political adviser to President Donald Trump, downplayed his Friday [1-25-19] indictment by a grand jury on charges brought by special counsel Robert Mueller as based on a ‘process crime’ that doesn’t show collusion with WikiLeaks or the Russian government…Stone denied ever speaking to the President about WikiLeaks’ release of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s hacked emails during the 2016 campaign. He also denied ever seeking the stolen emails in coordination with senior Trump campaign officials…Stone also criticized the FBI, which arrested him at his home in Florida just after 6 a.m. Friday. Mueller wrote in the indictment that publicly disclosing the arrest would ‘increase the risk of the defendant fleeing and destroying (or tampering with) evidence’ in an explanation for its manner.”
–Caroline Kelly, “Roger Stone downplays ‘process crime’ after arrest by FBI,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, January 25, 2019 10:43 pm