WASHINGTON (AP) — A longtime adviser to President Donald Trump says he will appear before the House intelligence committee on Sept. 26.
The adviser is Roger Stone, a Republican strategist who has known Trump for many years and informally advised him during the 2016 campaign.
The panel’s proceedings typically are closed, though Stone asked previously for his appearance to be public. He says he’s asking for the “immediate release” of transcripts from his appearance so there will be “no confusion or misinformation” about his appearance.
Stone has said he communicated during the presidential campaign with Guccifer 2.0, the unnamed hacker who has taken credit for breaking into Democratic National Committee email servers. But Stone has denied that he worked with Russian officials to influence the presidential election.
I guess he’ll be taking a short break from holding rallies lobbying for Presidential pardons for the Bundys.
Good luck getting the slime out of the chair once he’s left.
“Thank you for coming today, Mr. Stone. Now, first of all, can I see the Nixon tattoo on your back again?”
“I knew you were going to ask me that, Congressman Gowdy, so I had it touched up at a Vegas tat parlor just the other day.”
“Oh, that’s fantastic! Will I still get to touch it again? I wouldn’t want it to smear it.”
“Sure, Trey. You do remember that I explained to you that you can’t smear a tattoo, don’t you?”
“Oh, yeah.”