Donald Trump’s confidant Roger Stone claims he was poisoned with polonium in conspiracy to frame Russia
Roger Stone: ‘Just a theory. The Deep State moves in strange ways.’
For more than a year, Roger Stone has asserted that he spent Christmas of 2016 trying to survive an assassination attempt – most likely radioactive polonium poisoning – by someone trying to frame Russia.
Tests were conducted; doctors were baffled, the long-time political operative and adviser to Donald Trump told journalists.
Even the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention was contacted.
But from the moment he made the claims, Stone has deflected questions when asked to back up his claims.
It happened again on Friday, during a wide-ranging conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Attorney General Jeff Sessions, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and Trump. At one point Cooper said he had questions about Stone’s polonium assertions.
“I was extraordinarily ill,” Stone told Cooper, before referring to pictures of his face during the period. You can see in the file footage that you used at the beginning of the segment that I still have lesions on my face from that illness. My doctor believed I was poisoned. They believed initially that there was some radioactive element to that. I’ve never been this sick in my life.”