Roger Stone Lied to Congress After Helping Trump Win, Prosecutor Says

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(Bloomberg) -- Republican operative Roger Stone lied to a congressional panel probing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after he helped his “longtime friend” Donald Trump win the presidency, a prosecutor said as Stone’s criminal trial opened in Washington.Stone “repeatedly lied under

1 / 2 -- Republican operative Roger Stone lied to a congressional panel probing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election after he helped his “longtime friend” Donald Trump win the presidency, a prosecutor said as Stone’s criminal trial opened in Washington.

Stone, who worked to win the presidency for Donald Trump, is on trial in federal court in Washington for lying to the House Intelligence Committee about his communications with WikiLeaks while it published thousands of documents the U.S. believes Russia stole from Democratic Party computers to tip the election away from Hillary Clinton.“Because the truth looked bad,” he said. “The truth looked bad for the Trump campaign and the truth looked bad for Donald Trump.

 

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