Conservative 'conspiracy writer' Jerome Corsi negotiating plea deal with Mueller

RT
Fri, 23 Nov 2018 15:23 UTC

Prolific conspiracy theory author Jerome Corsi is negotiating a plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller, prompting excited speculation by the anti-Trump #Resistance and concerns over pressuring journalists.

Mueller's investigators have reportedly spent months investigating whether Corsi had advance knowledge that WikiLeaks would be publishing emails from the private account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta, and shared that knowledge with Roger Stone, described as an "associate" of then-candidate Donald Trump.

Without offering any evidence, US intelligence agencies have claimed that Russian intelligence agents hacked Podesta's emails and used WikiLeaks as a "cutout" to publish them in October 2016. Mueller is investigating allegations by Clinton's camp that Trump "colluded" with Russia to steal the presidential election.

Corsi is reportedly in negotiations to strike a plea deal with Mueller over perjury charges. This has been met with excitement among the president's critics, convinced that this time, Trump will be hounded out of office somehow.

Comment: Yep, they'll all 'sing' about events that never happened, apparently.

Comment: 'Racking them up'? So far none of the indictments implicate the 'Trump campaign' - they deal either with crimes committed before the campaign as with Manfort, or minor process law violations like lying to the FBI, as with Flynn, about things they already knew and had no reason to interview him about. If you don't realize this is a nothing-burger by now, you are clueless, sorry.

Comment: This is called putting the cart before the horse.

So far, none of the people who have made deals with Mueller have "flipped" on the president, however, and the charges against them have all been for process crimes such as lying to the FBI. The only case to see trial has been against Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, and even those charges had nothing to do with the 2016 election or Russia, but focused instead on allegations of tax evasion on profits from his lobbying work in Ukraine.

In recent weeks, the probe seemed to focus on Stone, Corsi and radio host Randy Credico, all in an apparent effort to show people supposedly associated with Trump knew the WikiLeaks dump of Podesta emails was coming. By October 2016, Stone had not worked for Trump's campaign for over a year.

"This was one of the most confusing and frightening things I've experienced. I'm 72 [years [old] and I'm afraid they're going to lock me up and put me in solitary confinement," Corsi told NBC News in a November 12 phone interview, amid speculation he was on a secret Mueller indictment.

Corsi has a colorful history of writing on the subject of conspiracy theories regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the birth certificate of former President Barack Obama, and former Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry's history of "Swift Boat" service in the Vietnam War.

Journalists both on the left and on the right have wondered if Mueller's treatment of Corsi was setting up a chilling precedent for going after journalists to reveal their sources.

Comment: Not that the Left cares. They'd be perfectly happy with a Gestapo state targeting journalists, as long as it was their Gestapo.

President Trump has repeatedly called the Mueller probe a "witch hunt" by "angry Democrats," insisting that there was no collusion between his campaign and anyone and that he won the election fair and square.

Comment: WaPo adds the following:

In a webcast and interviews, Corsi said he had spoken to prosecutors for 40 hours and feared that he could spend much of the remainder of his life in prison.

After two months of interviews, Corsi, 72, said he felt his brain was "mush."

"Trying to explain yourself to these people is impossible. . . . I guess I couldn't tell the special prosecutor what he wanted to hear," he added.
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"They said they wanted me to tell the truth, but when I did tell the truth they told me it was preposterous, and they wouldn't accept it," Corsi said.

Maybe Mueller can get the CIA's Alfreda Bikowsky and Gina Haspel to try a little bit of 'enhanced interrogation' on the 'high-value target'. They're experts at getting people to tell them what the CIA wants the to tell them, after all.

For his part, Stone denies Corsi told him about the WikiLeaks release in advance:

Stone said Friday that Corsi never relayed such information.

"Jerry Corsi never told me that John Podesta's emails had been stolen and would be published," he said on WBEN.

On Aug. 21, 2016, Stone tweeted that "it will soon the Podesta's time in the barrel." He has insisted his tweet had nothing to do with any plan by WikiLeaks and that it was based on research Corsi had provided to him about work Podesta and his lobbyist brother Tony had done involving Russia.

"He simply told me of their Russian business deals in banking gas and uranium," Stone said in a text message this week to The Post. "There was NO WikiLeaks context."

Corsi told the Daily Caller that he based his prediction on public sources of information, including the fact that Podesta was not among the Democrats whose emails had been published by WikiLeaks when the group released Democratic National Committee correspondence in July.

He said he concluded that WikiLeaks must be holding back Podesta's correspondence to make a bigger splash later in the campaign.