Roger Stone On Revelations He Met With Russian: ‘I Just Didn’t Remember’

Conservative lobbyist and consultant Roger Stone speaks with the press in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, New York, USA following a meeting there on December 6, 2016. Credit: Albin Lohr-Jones / Pool via CNP - ... Conservative lobbyist and consultant Roger Stone speaks with the press in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York, New York, USA following a meeting there on December 6, 2016. Credit: Albin Lohr-Jones / Pool via CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Albin Lohr-Jones/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Roger Stone, a longtime confidante to President Donald Trump, told ABC News Sunday that he failed to tell congressional investigators about his meeting with a Russian official during the 2016 campaign because “I just didn’t remember.”

“2016 was a pretty busy year,” Stone told ABC. “I don’t think a failure of memory constitutes a perjury.”

Stone said he “never discussed” his meeting with Henry Greenberg — who asked Stone for $2 million in exchange for damaging information on Hillary Clinton — with Trump or anyone in the campaign, despite having exchanged texts with Trump communications staffer Michael Caputo about the meeting.

“I flatly rejected this proposal as ludicrous and frankly forgot about it,” he told ABC.

The Washington Post was first to report on Sunday about the meeting between Stone and Greenberg. Both Caputo and Stone’s attorneys have sent letters to the House Intelligence Committee asking to correct their clients’ testimony in response to questions about whether they were offered damaging information about Clinton.

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  1. Another coffee server heard from.

  2. This reminds me of the old Steve Martin routine in which he replies to how to answer questions on not paying taxes- “I forgot!”, or Republicans responding to hateful language, “It was just a joke!”

    I really hope this scumbag goes down, HARD.

  3. Side issue I know, but I don’t get his suits. The shoulders are all wrong. These dark arts operators in the GOP seem to be caught is some weird expensive, badly tailored 1980’s time warp - see also Paul Manafort. A side issue and not of any importance compared to the rest of the stuff going on - but it just seems so weird - for lobbyists involved in media?

  4. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    I forgot! That is what my kids use to say, and now Grandkids say.

  5. “I don’t think a failure of memory constitutes a perjury.”

    The White House, March 1973:

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