Laura Ingraham Baselessly Claims Mueller Office Tipped CNN about Roger Stone Raid

Fox News’ Laura Ingraham is claiming without evidence that Robert Mueller‘s people told CNN ahead of time that they were going to arrest Roger Stone today.

As Stone was taken into custody on charges of obstruction, false statements and witness tampering, CNN was on the scene Friday morning to take footage of FBI officials making the arrest. Since the network was the only outlet with a reporter outside of Stone’s Florida house last night, Ingraham declared that it must’ve been a tip-off from the special counsel, and that they’ve supposedly made their motivations clear.

The @FBI arrest of Roger Stone at dawn, with dozens of helmeted agents, brandishing weapons, was totally unnecessary. Treated him like El Chapo. Political motives clear w/ @CNN tip-off.

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) January 25, 2019

If we put Ingraham aside, there are a number of public figures asking questions about how CNN obtained their exclusive footage.

And CNN is on hand to film the whole thing like it was ‘Zero Dark 30.’

I hope the FBI & CNN get an Oscar Nomination for this performance.

66 year old unarmed Stone in his pajamas waking up assault rifles pointed in his face.

If they can do it to him they can do it to you.

— Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 25, 2019

How did CNN get this video exclusively of Stone’s arrest? Did somone at the FBI or Team Mueller tip them off? Just curious.pic.twitter.com/fxdK2Bs6YH

— Harlan Z. Hill (@Harlan) January 25, 2019

CNN cameras were at the raid of Roger Stone…so FBI obviously tipped off CNN…even if you don’t like Stone, it is curious why Mueller’s office tipped off CNN instead of trying to quietly arrest Stone;quiet arrests are more likely to be safe to the FBI and the person arrested

— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) January 25, 2019

As Mediaite‘s Julio Rosas noted, CNN producer David Shortell says he went to Stone’s house yesterday after noticing “unusual grand jury activity” in Washington D.C. that seemed like it had something to with Stone.

“We also had some other signs that maybe something was going on this angle, the Roger Stone angle,” Shortell said. “So we showed up at his house this morning, we were the only ones there, and lo and behold the FBI agents did come and arrest him.”

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