WaPo: Roger Stone Met With A Russian Who Offered Dirt On Hillary

Full disclosure: I couldn’t care less about Roger Stone, but this is trending, so we need to talk about it.

Roger Stone has admitted that he met with a Russian who offered him dirt on Hillary.

Now listen– I don’t know why anyone would feel like they need extra dirt on Hillary, because she’s actually WALKING DIRT.

Here’s the entire scoop, via NY Mag.

Longtime Trump operative Roger Stone has admitted to a May 2016 meeting with a Russian who was offering to sell damaging information about Hillary Clinton, according to the Washington Post. The meeting was with a man named Henry Greenberg, and happened at the request of former Trump campaign communications official Michael Caputo, who met Greenberg through a Russian business partner. Neither Caputo nor Stone disclosed the meeting when they were interviewed by Congressional investigators, but Caputo told the Post that it came up when he was questioned by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators last month. The disclosure means that 11 Trump associates have now acknowledged interacting with Russian nationals during the campaign or transition.

Stone met Greenberg — who was wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat and T-shirt — at a restaurant in Sunny Isles, Florida, in late May 2016. The plan was for Stone to vet the information Greenberg was offering. Whatever that supposed Clinton dirt was, Stone told the Post that Greenberg offered to sell it to Trump for $2 million, but that he dismissed the offer, telling Greenberg that Trump “doesn’t pay for anything.” In a text exchange with Caputo following the meeting, Stone said that Greenberg “wants big &$ for the info” before calling the meeting a “waste of time” and telling Caputo that he heard nothing of interest. Stone told the Post that he attended the meeting to practice “due diligence” on something it would have been “political malpractice” for the Trump team to ignore. Caputo claims that Greenberg’s Russian accent didn’t seem important to him at the time, since links to Russia were not yet a major issue for the Trump campaign.

Stone and Caputo now claim that Greenberg was working for the FBI as part of a sting to entrap them and the Trump campaign, citing documents that indicate Greenberg once worked as an FBI informant. Caputo has even launched a website including the documents. The allegations are sure to get the attention of President Trump and his allies, who have been repeatedly attempting to discredit the FBI and the Mueller investigation.

However, there’s no solid evidence that Greenberg was working with the FBI, but given what we’ve learned about the large presence of bias against Trump within the FBI, I wouldn’t be surprised.

But there you have it. That’s the basic story. Stone met with a dude who offered dirt on Hillz, and he didn’t pay it because “Trump doesn’t pay for anything.”

MSM is trying to use this story as proof that the Russians handed Trump a political victory, but this doesn’t prove that. At all.

But sure. Freak out and continue to ignore Hillary’s hand in the entire fake Trump dossier. Nooooothing to see there. Nope. Nada.

h/t NY Mag