Brian Kilmeade Defends Jerome Corsi and Roger Stone’s ‘Political Gossip’: This is What they Do
Fox & Friends addressed recent developments in the investigation into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian agents under indictment for interfering with the 2016 general election.
At issue are recent allegations that Roger Stone and Jerome Corsi coordinated with Julian Assange and WikiLeaks to release information damaging to the Hillary Clinton campaign — information that we now know to have been illegally obtained by Russian agents.
After running tape of legal professor Jonathan Turley claiming that the Trump campaign may have not known about the hacking before it was released. “The problem Mueller has is that “if the narrative is that some Trump associates wanted the Wikileaks information, that’s not enough,” Turley said, adding “It is not a crime…Clinton’s people went to Russia to find dirt on trump. That happens in politics.”
But in Kilmeade’s remarkably charitable opinion, this is nothing but “political gossip” by two individuals that travel in political gossip.
“This is what Roger stone and Jerome Corsi do. They write books about it. This is what they think. This is their theories. Interaction with the president. Doesn’t mean they were calling the shots.”
Kilmeade neglects to mention that both Stone and Corsi travel in conspiracy theories that have claimed, among other things, that 9/11 may have been an inside job, Barack Obama wasn’t born in the United States and that Seth Rich was murdered by DNC operatives.
Further, Kilmeade wanted to make clear that this “doesn’t mean they were calling the shots,” adding that “Dave Bossey, Corey Lewandoski, Kellyanne Conway, Steve Bannon were calling the shot. Notably missing from Kilmeade’s list of Trump campaign shot-callers? Former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort, who is a world of legal hurt notably missing from this segment.
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