2016 ELECTION/ROBERT MUELLER/ROGER STONE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, revealed on Friday [1-25-19] the most direct link yet between parallel efforts by the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks to damage Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election using Democratic Party material stolen by Russians. A top Trump campaign official dispatched Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime adviser to President Trump, to get information from WikiLeaks about the thousands of hacked Democratic emails, according to an indictment. The effort began weeks after Democratic officials publicly accused Russian intelligence operatives of the theft, which was part of Moscow’s broad campaign to sabotage the 2016 presidential race. The indictment made no mention of whether Mr. Trump played a role in the coordination, though Mr. Mueller did leave a curious clue about how high in the campaign the effort reached: A senior campaign official ‘was directed’ by an unnamed person to contact Mr. Stone about additional WikiLeaks releases that might damage the Clinton campaign, according to the court document.”
–Mark Mazzetti, Eileen Sullivan and Maggie Haberman, “Indicting Roger Stone, Mueller Shows Link Between Trump Campaign and WikiLeaks,” The New York Times online, January 25, 2019