Trump was eager to know more about Wikileaks' plans to release emails potentially damaging to his 2016 presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton: former aide
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign was keen to keep abreast of the release of emails potentially damaging to Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, reaching all the way to Trump himself, the Republican’s former deputy campaign chairman testified in court on Tuesday.
Although Gates acknowledged he could not hear the contents of the call between then-candidate Trump and Stone as they were driving to LaGuardia Airport in New York City, he said that within 30 seconds or so of Trump hanging up, Trump said that “more information would be coming,” in an apparent reference to WikiLeaks.
Both the government and Stone’s defense team rested their cases on Tuesday. Closing arguments are scheduled for 1 p.m. on Wednesday, followed by jury deliberations. Another allegation relates to claims Stone made that comedian Randy Credico was his intermediary with WikiLeaks. Prosecutors said Stone was not talking to Credico about WikiLeaks in the summer of 2016, but rather, he was speaking to conservative author named Jerome Corsi, whom Stone instructed in one email to “get to Assange!” and learn when the Clinton emails would be coming out.
Gates said Stone had spoken to him as early as spring 2016 about an expectation that “information would be coming out” from WikiLeaks. In a court filing on Monday, prosecutors said the testimony by Gates - who also testified last year against Manafort in a trial in which Manafort was convicted and sent to prison for 7-1/2 years - will conclude his cooperation with the government, and they asked a judge to set a mid-December sentencing date.
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