Corsi Casts Himself As Right-Wing Martyr Pursued By Mueller Probe ‘Thugs’

WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 14:  Aryo Pirouznia, coordinator of the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI), speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club October 14, 2004 in Washington, DC. Pirouznia said Hassan Nemazee, who has raised money for John Kerry's presidential campaign, filed a $10 million lawsuit in a Texas court charging the SMCCDI and Pirouznia with libeling him by suggesting he is a supporter of the Islamist regime in Iran. Pirouznia claims that the lawsuit s frivolous and has filed a counter suit. With him are his attorney Bob Jenevein (C) and author Jerome Corsi.   (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 14: Aryo Pirouznia, coordinator of the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI), speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club October 14, 2004 in Wash... WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 14: Aryo Pirouznia, coordinator of the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI), speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club October 14, 2004 in Washington, DC. Pirouznia said Hassan Nemazee, who has raised money for John Kerry's presidential campaign, filed a $10 million lawsuit in a Texas court charging the SMCCDI and Pirouznia with libeling him by suggesting he is a supporter of the Islamist regime in Iran. Pirouznia claims that the lawsuit s frivolous and has filed a counter suit. With him are his attorney Bob Jenevein (C) and author Jerome Corsi. (Photo by Matthew Cavanaugh/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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As over the top as ever, conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi has told multiple news outlets that he had refused a plea bargain from special counsel and alleged deep state factotum Robert Mueller.

“They want me to say I willfully lied,” he reportedly told NBC. “I’m not going to agree that I lied. I did not. I will not lie to save my life. I’d rather sit in prison and rot for as long as these thugs want me to.”

Corsi – a famously unreliable conspiracy theorist who pushed the birther conspiracy theory under Obama and assisted in the “swift-boating” of John Kerry in 2004 – said two weeks ago that Mueller would indict him for perjury in two days.

Corsi has not yet been indicted. Special counsel spokesman Peter Carr declined to comment.

The former Infowars DC bureau chief’s remarks said that the purported perjury charge is related to whether he saw Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in the summer of 2016.

Mueller has been investigating whether Roger Stone acted as a conduit between Wikileaks and the Trump campaign over the release of hacked emails from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta.

A DC correspondent for One America News Network, a conservative news website, tweeted that Corsi would file a “criminal complaint against Mueller’s investigation with Acting Attorney General Whitaker” over the supposed perjury charge.

Corsi promised in an interview with OAN that he would publish a copy of the plea offer.

Corsi attorney David Gray did not reply to a request for comment. Corsi did not reply to multiple requests for comment.

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