Stone Lawyer Complains About ‘SWAT Team Arrest’: ‘There Was No Need’ For That

FILE - In this March 30, 2017, file photo, Roger Stone talks to reporters outside a courtroom in New York. The House intelligence panel will interview two of President Donald Trump’s associates behind closed doors ... FILE - In this March 30, 2017, file photo, Roger Stone talks to reporters outside a courtroom in New York. The House intelligence panel will interview two of President Donald Trump’s associates behind closed doors this week as congressional committees step up their investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and former staffer Boris Epshteyn will talk to the House panel. Stone will be interviewed on Sept. 26. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) MORE LESS
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Former Trump associate Roger Stone’s attorney complained about the manner of his client’s arrest Friday morning, telling NBC News that “there was no need” for the “SWAT team” to show up at his home.

“There was no need to have the FBI show up with a SWAT team this morning. He’s been very public for the last two years about where he was and what he was doing,” Stone attorney Grant Smith told NBC. “If they’d found any collusion they would have charged him with it.”

“He will fight vigorously because these were things he did not recall and were immaterial to the scope of the investigation,” Smith added.

According to CNN, the agents who arrested Stone at his Fort Lauderdale home on Friday morning were heavily armed, but the apprehension was “friendly” and Stone was taken into custody without incident.

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