Mueller looking at late-night phone calls between Trump, Stone
by Naomi Lim
| November 29, 2018 12:23 AM
Late-night phone calls between President Trump and former confidant Roger Stone in 2016 are being examined by special counsel Robert Mueller as he investigates links between the Trump campaign and the WikiLeaks dump of information damaging to Hillary Clinton's own presidential ambitions, according to a report.
Trump's legal team is nervous after the president's history of direct contact with Stone was referenced in a draft court document compiled by Mueller's office that was revealed this week, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. The Trump Organization has additionally provided Mueller's team with phone and contact logs, the newspaper said.
But Stone — a self-described political trickster — on Wednesday denied speaking with Trump about WikiLeaks and refused to attribute any significance to Mueller's possessing the logs, adding that the president also called him from other people's phones.
“Unless Mueller has tape recordings of the phone calls, what would that prove?†Stone told the Post.
Trump has denied talking to Stone, a former President Richard Nixon administration aide, about WikiLeaks, according to reports about the written responses he gave Mueller as part of the federal Russia probe last week.
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