Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign is getting closer and closer to Trump. Yesterday saw the arrest of Roger Stone, a long time associate of Donald Trump and in the indictment (HERE) there is clear evidence he lied to the House Intelligence Committee on several occasions about contacts he made through others with Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy in London. What has this got to do with Brexit? Well there is an intriguing reference to a "supporter of the Trump campaign" who lived in the UK.
The indictment doesn't mention the name of the supporter but it does say Stone corresponded with associates about contacting Wikipedia (Organization 1 in the indictment) in order to obtain emails damaging to the Clinton Campaign. The indictment reads:
a. On or about July 25, 2016, STONE sent an email to Person 1 [we don't know who this is] with the subject line, “Get to [the head of Organization 1].” The body of the message read, “Get to [the head of Organization 1] [a]t Ecuadorian Embassy in London and get the pending [Organization 1] emails . . . they deal with Foundation, allegedly.” On or about the same day, Person 1 forwarded STONE’s email to an associate who lived in the United Kingdom and was a supporter of the Trump Campaign.
b. On or about July 31, 2016, STONE emailed Person 1 with the subject line, “Call me MON.” The body of the email read in part that Person 1’s associate in the United Kingdom “should see [the head of Organization 1].”
The head of Organization 1 (Wikipedia) is Julian Assange. Who do we know that (a) lives in the UK (b) was a supporter of the Trump campaign and (c) had contact with Julian Assange.
I am sure there are a lot of possible candidates but one name does rather stand out although I don't want to claim it's Nigel Farage but he certainly fits the bill doesn't he?
We know Farage was spotted coming out of the Ecuadorian embassy on 9th March 2017 (HERE) and although this is months later we also know that the US House Intelligence Committee has been told there were other unreported meetings between Farage and Assange (HERE). This is what they were told:
"Glenn Simpson, a private investigator whose company compiled the controversial dossier alleging a conspiracy between Trump campaign officials and Russian agents, told the House intelligence committee that he was told by an unnamed source that the former Ukip leader had given data to Assange, but had no proof of the exchange.
“I’ve been told and have not confirmed that Nigel Farage had additional trips to the Ecuadoran [sic] Embassy than the one that’s been in the papers and that he provided data to Julian Assange,” Simpson told the committee, according to a transcript released on Thursday".
“I’ve been told and have not confirmed that Nigel Farage had additional trips to the Ecuadoran [sic] Embassy than the one that’s been in the papers and that he provided data to Julian Assange,” Simpson told the committee, according to a transcript released on Thursday".
And we know after Trump won the election Farage, along with Aaron Banks, was among the first to fly out and congratulate him in November 2016, pictured (HERE) in Trump's golden lift with his former chief aid Raheem Kassam, Leave.EU communications director Andy Wigmore and leave.EU campaigner Gerry Gunster.
I don't want to suggest for a moment that it was Farage but wouldn't it be interesting, to say the least, if the former UKIP leader and probably the biggest single driving force behind Brexit was implicated in the Trump investigation? Fingers crossed.
Update: A website called Byline HERE has identified the three unnamed people in the indictment as Jerome Corsi (person 1) and Randy Credico (person 2) and the person who lived in the UK as Ted Malloch.
But Farage isn't out of the woods. He's been named as a person of interest and as the report on Byline says:
"According to Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr, Farage had a secret dinner with Roger Stone and Alex Jones during the Republican National Party Convention in Cleveland in July 2016"
