stone arrest prompts president trump to seek distractions and dredge up hillary clinton's emails

stone arrest prompts president trump to seek distractions and dredge up hillary clinton

Stone allegedly later told campaign officials about future WikiLeaks releases. In the summer of 2016, according to the indictment, Stone spoke with senior Trump campaign officials about WikiLeaks and “information it might have had that would be damaging to the Clinton Campaign.” Senior campaign officials later asked Stone about any future releases from WikiLeaks, the indictment alleges.Īfter WikiLeaks dumped stolen DNC documents in July, a senior Trump campaign official was directed to contact Stone about future releases on the Clinton campaign, the indictment alleges. The indictment then described how an unnamed “Organization 1” - known publicly to be WikiLeaks - posted tens of thousands of documents stolen from the DNC and the personal email account of John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman. About a month later, the DNC announced that it had been hacked by Russian government cyber operations.

Around May 2016, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee became aware that their computers had been compromised and hired a security company to identify the extent of the intrusions, according to the indictment.

Stone arrest prompts president trump to seek distractions and dredge up hillary clinton's emails