Jerome Corsi Claims ‘Remarkably’ Correct Deductive Skill Was His Source for Insider Wikileaks Info
On Friday, right-wing author and former Infowars bureau chief Jerome Corsi outted himself as “Person 1”, named in the indictment of Trump ally Roger Stone, who was dramatically arrested last week. In a long and revealing interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, Corsi said he’s prepared to testify to what the indictment says about him, among other things.
“Person One” Corsi is, according to the indictment, one of the people with whom Stone communicated about the Wikileaks release of hacked DNC emails. Tapper began by asking Corsi to restate what he has said about the accuracy of the indictment.
“I know that my motivation is to tell the truth, and I will affirm that what is in the indictment about me is accurate,” said Corsi. “and I will affirm that, if asked to in court.”
“So that means you’re willing to testify against Roger Stone,” said Tapper, “theoretically, if need be, you will affirm that what’s in the indictment is correct.”
“I’ll be happy to testify — I would expect to be subpoenaed, and I’ll let the testimony fall wherever it falls,” Corsi replied. “I’m going to tell the truth to the best of my ability.”
Tapper asked about the assertion in the indictment about a “senior Trump campaign official” being “directed” to speak to Stone about the emails. “Do you know who directed that senior campaign official to talk with Roger Stone,” Tapper asked, “do you know who either of those individuals are?”
“I really don’t. I mean, I know what Roger told me, but I don’t recall that Roger ever said that he was under instructions from anyone in the campaign to find out about what Wikileaks had after July 22nd, 2016,” said Corsi, not exactly answering the question. Tapper asked about someone being instructed to talk to Stone, not Stone being directed.
“I do agree that Roger wanted me to find out from Wikileaks,” Corsi continued. “I never had any contact with Julian Assange directly or indirectly. So my communications with Roger in July and August 2016 about what I thought Assange had were really speculation on my part, connecting the dots.”
Tapper confronted Corsi with his emails that exposed advance knowledge of what Wikileaks was going to release, and challenged him to tell the truth. “Prosecutors do not believe that you conjured this information,” said Tapper. “Why don’t you be honest with the American people right now about where it came from?”
Corsi stated that he did essentially conjure the information. He said he couldn’t find anyone who gave him that info, and that he “did just connect the dots and figured it out on my own.”
“I admit, that’s hard to accept. People are going to have a hard time understanding that,” said Corsi. “But throughout my life, I have been having this ability, deductively or inductively to really understand situations and, remarkably, often I’m correct.”
The interview went on like that for some time, with Corsi claiming near-psychic ability to predict events, claiming exhaustive research by him into himself that produced no evidence of outside assistance, denying his meaning and actual statements even when Tapper quoted him and showed him, and so on.
As Corsi made these claims, his lawyer sat mute after a brief appearance on screen at the beginning of the segment. An interesting but nutty interview.
Watch the clip above, courtesy of CNN.
[Featured image via screengrab]
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