Donald Trump’s adviser, Roger Stone, admits meeting ‘Russian’ during election – but says it was an FBI trick
Roger Stone says he was offered dirt on Hillary Clinton by ‘Henry Greenberg’ but turned it down – and says he believes the FBI was trying to trick him
Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining a previously undisclosed meeting between US President Donald Trump’s long-time confidante Roger Stone and a Russian figure who allegedly tried to sell him dirt on Hillary Clinton.
The meeting between Stone and a man who identified himself as Henry Greenberg was described in a pair of letters sent Friday to the House Intelligence Committee and first reported by The Washington Post.
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Stone and Michael Caputo, a Trump campaign aide who arranged the 2016 meeting, did not disclose the contact in their interviews with the committee.
But they now say they believe the man was an FBI informant trying to set them up in a bid to undermine Trump’s campaign. Greenberg could not immediately be reached for comment, but in a text to the Post he denied he was working for the FBI when he met with Stone.
The letters, obtained by The Associated Press and written by Stone and Caputo’s lawyers, say that, in late May 2016, Caputo received a call from his Russian business partner introducing him to Greenberg, who claimed he had information about Clinton that he wanted to share with the campaign.