Former Trump confidant Roger Stone goes on trial
Social media posts? Banned. Video clips from "The Godfather: Part II?" Banned. Transcripts from "The Godfather: Part II?" Not banned. Those are just some of the unusual ground rules set out by Obama-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the widely anticipated trial of former Trump confidant Roger Stone, which begins on Tuesday in Washington.
Social media posts? Banned. Video clips from "The Godfather: Part II?" Banned. Transcripts from "The Godfather: Part II?" Not banned. Those are just some of the unusual ground rules set out by Obama-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the widely anticipated trial of former Trump confidant Roger Stone, which begins on Tuesday in Washington.
Stone, a longtime Republican provocateur and part-time fashion critic, is accused of lying about his efforts to obtain Russian-hacked Hillary Clinton emails for political gain. His indictment in January was an offshoot of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation, and Judge Jackson ruled that Stone's legal team would have access to most of the redacted materials in Mueller's report in order to prepare his defense.
Stone is not charged with conspiring with WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy website that published emails of Democrats during the 2016 campaign, or with the Russian officers Mueller says hacked them. Instead, he is accused of lying about his interactions related to WikiLeaks' release during probes by Congress and Mueller’s team. Trump, for his part, has said Stone has been unfairly targeted. Some critics considered Stone's arrest unusual and heavy-handed: It took place at the hands of highly-armed police, during a predawn raid and CNN cameras were in place.
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