Roger Stone reportedly pushed hard for Trump to preemptively pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

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October 26, 2018 8:17 PM

Assange and WikiLeaks released batches of hacked Democratic emails after obtaining them from the Russian hacker Guccifer 2.0 in 2016.

Roger Stone, a longtime Republican operative and informal adviser to President Donald Trump's campaign, advocated for a presidential pardon for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Mother Jones reported on Thursday.

the defendants falsely claimed that DCLeaks was controlled by American hackers and that Guccifer 2.0 was a Romanian hacker when in fact both were created and controlled by the GRU, Russia's military intelligence outfit.

Moreover, the indictment says the conspirators — in this case, Guccifer 2.0 — communicated with US persons about the release of stolen documents. In one instance, it says, the conspirator posing as Guccifer 2.0 contacted a person who was "in regular contact with senior members of the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump."

The conspirator wrote to this person thanking them for "writing back" and asking whether they found anything "interesting in the docs i posted," the indictment says.

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