Stone's messages to Mueller witness investigated for potential obstruction: Reports

Special counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly considering whether President Trump’s former campaign adviser Roger Stone interfered with the Justice Department’s investigation into the 2016 race by sending potentially threatening messages to Randy Credico, a radio host and witness in the government’s probe. The special counsel’s office has examined communications between the longtime acquaintances and is considering whether Mr. Stone, a member of the Trump campaign through 2015, sent messages that amounted to crimes including possible witness tampering and obstruction of justice, The New York Times and CNN separately reported.

Mr. Stone dismissed the reports during a television interview Friday evening, calling them out of context and “the late-night ravings between two grumpy old men who have been friends for almost 20 years.” “They are friendly, they’re vulgar, they’re vicious, they’re nasty, they’re ribald, but they’re not serious, therefore they’d have to be seen in context,” Mr. Stone told CNN.

The New York Times first reported on Thursday that Mr. Mueller’s office is examining text messages and emails sent between the former Trump campaign adviser and Mr. Credico, a radio host and comedian connected to the probe courtesy of his connection to the WikiLeaks website, and CNN subsequently published several specific expletive-laden excerpts. “Waste of your time — tell him to go [expletive] himself,” Mr. Stone messaged Mr. Credico after learning that the latter received a subpoena from the special counsel’s office, CNN reported.

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