Rep. Adam Schiff Hits Roger Stone Over Denials of Wikileaks Contacts: He’s Not Known For Candor

Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, went on Meet The Press just after Roger Stone appeared on the show to deny he had any advance knowledge that Wikileaks was planning to publish Clinton campaign emails in 2016.

Stone, the informal Trump adviser and political operative, has been interviewed by the House Intelligence Committee over his ties to Wikileaks, Julian Assange‘s organization that published Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta‘s emails during the 2016 election.

Stone denied to Chuck Todd that he had any heads up about the emails being published, despite his tweets from the time suggesting he had some awareness, and his subsequently revealed contacts with Wikileaks.

“Do you believe his denials?” Todd asked Schiff.

“Roger Stone is known for a lot of things, candor isn’t really one of them,” Schiff said. “Either his testimony before our committee was untrue or his public statements are untrue.”

“Both cannot be fact because they’re inconsistent with each other,” he continued. “We were never allowed to find out which was the case in our committee.”

The House closed its investigation into the Trump campaign’s Russia ties in March, to the protests of its Democratic members.

Schiff argued on NBC that the committee should have “used compulsory process to obtain [Stone’s] private text or Twitter messages with Wikileaks, something he was forced to disclose when they came to light.”

“We were never allowed to follow the evidentiary trail,” Schiff said, noting Stone had previously claimed — falsely — that he didn’t have any contacts with Wikileaks. “I suspect that Bob Mueller is, and that’s why so many of Roger Stone’s confederates are being brought in.”

Watch above, via NBC News.

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