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Mueller subpoenas birther contacted by Trump for information about former Obama’s birth certificate


Jeremy Corsi currently works with fellow conspiracy theorist Alex Jones at Infowars

CHRIS SOSA

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 7:28PM (UTC)

This article originally appeared on AlterNet.

The New York Times reports that special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed conspiracy theorist Jeremy Corsi.

He was contacted by President Donald Trump for information about former President Barack Obama's birth certificate during his birther campaign. Corsi currently works with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones at Infowars.

He is connected to former Trump adviser Roger Stone, who investigators appear to consider a "nexus" between Trump's team and Wikileaks.

Stone has maintained that he didn't have contact with Wikileaks leader Julian Assange during the 2016 presidential campaign.

A lawyer for Corsi says Corsi "fully intends to comply with the subpoena" and anticipates to be asked about Stone.

https://www.salon.com/2018/09/05/mueller-subpoenas-conspiracy-theorist-trump-contacted-for-information-on-obamas-birth-certificate_partner/

Seriously?! LOL!!

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Birther-Truther Jerome Corsi to Meet Grand Jury Friday

by Martin Longman
September 6, 2018
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If you’re like me, you’re beginning to wonder how much longer it will take a grand jury to indict Roger Stone and whether it will occur before or after the midterm elections. The biggest development on that front this week is the announcement that Jerome Corsi will be appearing before a grand jury tomorrow. If you’re not familiar with Mr. Corsi, he’s best known for being a 9/11 Truther, writing the 2004 campaign book Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry and the 2011 book Where’s the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible To Be President, and for advancing other outlandish conspiracy theories like the idea that the Obama administration secretly wanted Iran to develop a nuclear weapons capability.

Corsi was tapped by Alex Jones around the time of the Trump’s inauguration to lead Infowars’ coverage of the new presidency. Roger Stone, of course, spent a good deal of time during the 2016 campaign making appearances with Alex Jones on Infowars.

The main point of Corsi’s testimony appears to be for him to explain a column he wrote for Infowars in March 2017 in which he claimed to be the source for Roger Stone’s August 2016 claim that John Podesta would soon see his time “in the barrel.”

The tweet by Stone was later broadly interpreted to indicate that Stone had inside knowledge about the hacking of Podesta’s email at least a month and a half before those emails were published. By providing a cover story for Stone, Corsi inadvertently put himself in legal jeopardy.

Tomorrow he will show up and hand his phone and laptop over to a grand jury.

Based on the company Corsi keeps, there’s likely to be some very interesting information on those electronic devices. I wonder if we’ll ever hear about what the grand jury finds.

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2018/0...d-jury-friday/

Oh puleeze.

Two Roger Stone associates to appear before Mueller grand jury Friday

• By ALI DUKAKIS

Sep 5, 2018, 6:04 PM ET

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Two past associates of President Donald Trump ally and veteran political operative Roger Stone are expected to appear before a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C. on Friday in response to subpoenas from special counsel Robert Mueller, ABC News has learned.

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Jerome Corsi, who until recently served as D.C. bureau chief for InfoWars, the alt-right program hosted by right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and political humorist and radio show host Randy Credico are the two latest Stone associates to be summoned to testify in Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Reached by phone on Wednesday afternoon, Corsi confirmed to ABC News that he received the subpoena from the special counsel to appear before Mueller’s grand jury Friday but declined to comment any further on the matter.

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Corsi’s lawyer, David Gray, told ABC News that Corsi received the subpoena last week and that his client plans to testify on Friday. "We're going to bring any materials he has [on phones and computers] and be fully cooperative with emails or text messages they want to see. Nothing we see shows criminal liability on Mr. Corsi's part," Gray said.

Gray added that he is attempting to schedule an interview with the special counsel's office tomorrow afternoon and that a possible meeting Thursday might impact Corsi's scheduled testimony before the special counsel grand jury on Friday.

"My guess is their interest is in communications my client had with Roger Stone in the 2016-2017 time frame," Gray told ABC News. When asked if he thinks the special counsel could be interested in questioning Corsi about Wikileaks, Assange, or Guccifer 2.0, Gray said, "Probably, but I don't know for sure."

Corsi's subpoena was first reported by the New York Times.

In August, Credico received his subpoena to testify before the federal grand jury in the special counsel's investigation this Friday, his lawyer Marty Stolar told ABC News.

Stone served as an adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign but left in 2015. Stone continued to advise Trump informally. He has been under scrutiny in part because of statements he made in August of 2016 that appeared to hint he may have known in advance about WikiLeaks' plan to release damaging information on Clinton. He says he didn’t.

(MORE: Roger Stone says he’s the 'US person' mentioned in Mueller indictment)

Stone has also confirmed he communicated with Guccifer 2.0, the unnamed hacker who has taken credit for breaking into Democratic National Committee email servers, sources told ABC News, but said Stone said the exchanges were brief and innocuous and denies knowing Guccifer 2.0 was a Russian operative.

These subpoenas bring to ten the number of people with ties to Stone who have been contacted by the special counsel, according to interviews with witnesses, others who say they've been contacted, and sources with direct knowledge on the matter.

In addition to Credico and Corsi, they include Stone associates and former Trump campaign aides Michael Caputo and Sam Nunberg; Kristin Davis, the one-time “Manhattan Madam,” who claimed she supplied high priced prostitutes to former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer (he denied those allegations) and who has worked for Stone and remains close with him; Stone's former driver and assistant John Kakanis; Stone's one-time social media adviser Jason Sullivan, and former Stone aide Andrew Miller.

Corsi, who stoked such false rumors as President Barack Obama not being born in the U.S., joined InfoWars last year but has since departed. Corsi has been acquainted with Stone – who currently serves as a key contributor to InfoWars – for years.

Corsi's name surfaced earlier this year after investigators with Mueller's team spent almost an hour interviewing Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Malloch, 65, an American academic and conservative London-based author, discussing his ties to Stone, Corsi, and Wikileaks, according to a post-script for Malloch's latest book.

(MORE: Mueller's agents asked about Roger Stone, Trump supporter says)

Malloch told ABC News in April that the questioning occurred in March after Malloch was detained by federal agents at Boston's Logan Airport upon arrival from his home in London. Malloch's pro-Trump political book, "The Plot to Destroy Trump: How the Deep State Fabricated the Russian Dossier to Subvert the President," describes the encounter as “intimidating.” In the post-script of his book, Malloch describes the interview and says agents seemed particularly interested in his connections with Stone, Wikileaks, and Corsi, who he described as a Trump campaign a journalist who edited a memoir he wrote years ago, When asked to comment on the latest subpoena issued to Corsi, Stone directed ABC News to a March 2017 InfoWars article by Corsi titled, "DOCS DISPROVE MEDIA’S RUSSIAN/ASSANGE CLAIMS AGAINST STONE: How Corsi was responsible for Stone’s 'suspicious' tweet, not Assange or the Russians."

In the article, Corsi claims that in August of 2016, he was involved in a research for Stone on Podesta and Clinton's ties to Russia.

Credico name has also surfaced as a possible link between Stone and Assange. Stone told Congress in September 2017 that he asked Credico to act as an intermediary for him to contact Wikileaks publisher Julian Assange to confirm that Assange had a cache of information on Clinton during the 2016 campaign. In July, ABC News reported that Credico had been contacted by special counsel investigators seeking an interview and that he would not do so voluntarily, but would comply with a subpoena if the special counsel’s office issued one. In July, Stone appeared in special counsel Mueller’s indictment against a dozen Russians intelligence officers – he has confirmed to ABC News he was the unnamed Trump campaign regular who corresponded with Russian hackers. The indictment alleges that the 12 Russians engaged in a sustained effort to hack Democrats and aides to Clinton during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Stone, who has taken credit for persuading President Trump to get into politics, served as an adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign but left amid controversy in 2015.

Stone continued to advise Trump informally after he departed from the campaign.

Stone told ABC News in May that he would never "flip" and cooperate with investigators against President Trump. “I will never betray this president,” Stone told ABC News. “Under no circumstances will I bear false witness against President Trump.”

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/roge...ry?id=57624887

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This is ridiculous. I can't believe we're wasting money on crap like this. It's disgusting. Mueller should be ashamed of himself. Whatever phony reputation he had before this, has all turned to infamy and disgrace.

Roger Stone associate Randy Credico meets with Mueller grand jury in Russia probe


Randy Credico, center, arriving at federal court. (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)

By Spencer S. Hsu and
Rosalind S. Helderman
September 7 at 12:14 PM

New York radio host Randy Credico, with a dog in tow, arrived at a federal courthouse in Washington to testify Friday morning before a grand jury working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

Credico is an associate of Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to President Donald Trump.

Credico entered the courthouse’s grand jury area with attorney Martin Tolar, who said last month that Credico had received a subpoena to testify.

Credico’s testimony came as an attorney for another Stone associate, conservative political commentatorJerome Corsi, said he would not be appearing before the grand jury Friday after being subpoenaed.

Corsi’s attorney, David Gray, declined to further comment Friday. Gray had said earlier in the week that he would be speaking to the special counsel’s office on Thursday and hoped to negotiate a voluntary interview for his client in lieu of a grand jury appearance.

Gray has said the subpoena indicated that Mueller is interested in Corsi’s communications during 2016 and 2017. Gray said he believes the special counsel planned to ask about Corsi’s contacts with Stone, who has come under intense scrutiny by Mueller’s investigators.

Randy Credico (Astrid Riecken/For The Washington Post)

[Stone associate subpoenaed to appear before Mueller grand jury]

Corsi shared research with Stone around the same time that the longtime GOP consultant claimed publicly that he had been in contact with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and had advance knowledge of WikiLeaks’ releases of hacked Democratic emails.

Stone has since denied direct contact with Assange and said he had no specific knowledge of WikiLeaks’ material or the group’s plans to release it.

Gray has said Corsi had no contacts with WikiLeaks.

He would not comment on what Corsi’s communications indicate about Stone or his interactions with WikiLeaks.

[Charges against Russian intelligence officers intensify spotlight on Trump adviser Roger Stone]

This summer, other Stone associates have been interviewed or asked to appear before the grand jury.

One Stone aide, Andrew Miller, has been held in contempt of court for refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena and is seeking to have Mueller’s investigation declared unconstitutional.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...=.eaa4cb9ce2d2

It's a terrible witch hunt. The whole thing is illegal because the whole premise was fraudulent and illegal.