The Text Messages That Could Land Roger Stone in Jail

NBC News has the big, big get:

Six days before WikiLeaks began releasing Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s emails, Roger Stone had a text message conversation with a friend about WikiLeaks, according to copies of phone records obtained exclusively by NBC News.

Here’s just a taste:

… and that’s just a sample of what NBC’s Anna Schecter reports:

Stone, a confidante of then-candidate Donald Trump and notorious political trickster, has denied any collusion with WikiLeaks.

But the text messages provided by Stone to NBC News show that Credico appeared to be providing regular updates to Stone on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s plans in the days before the hacked emails were released. In the texts, Credico told Stone he had insights into Assange’s plans through a longtime friend, who was also Assange’s lawyer, according to the text messages.

Stone is trying to blame Credico. We’re not buying it. If anything, this is  a public move by a guy who knows he faces years in jail — perhaps the rest of his life.

Read the full report — and the other mind-blowing texts — here.