On the heels of The Washington Post's reporting that Roger Stone told two associates he had connected with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, a "Get Me Roger Stone" producer says he too heard Stone discuss the matter.
Morgan Pehme, a producer for the documentary, said on MSNBC that during an interview with Stone for the documentary, the then-informal Trump adviser “was trying to meet with Julian Assange.”
“We don’t know if it was successful,” Pehme said.
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“The Washington Post story says that he did meet with Assange,” Pehme said. “I am telling you he was seeking to meet with Assange. We discussed it many times.”
Stone, a longtime confidant of President Donald Trump, has previously said he has not met with Assange. However, he publicly predicted on Twitter in August that it would be Podesta’s “time in the barrel.“ Stone also tweeted in October that he has “total confidence that @wikileaks and my hero Julian Assange will educate the American people soon.”
Several days later, Wikileaks released Podesta’s emails.
“I do not know if he had knowledge,“ Pehme said. “He has said consistently that he could extract this idea that John Podesta could be in trouble from public news reports, that’s what he contends.“
“I do not know for certain if he met with Wikileaks in advance of the election but he was certainly attempting to do so,” Pehme concluded.
Roger Stone tried to meet with Assange, documentary producer says (Politico)