FBI documents confirm Roger Stone and Julian Assange communicated during and after 2016 election

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Recently released FBI documents confirm Roger Stone, a former member of United States President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign, has repeatedly communicated with Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks.

Their communication was unearthed during an investigation that led to Stone being sentenced to three years in prison.

Stone is regarded as a political operative who has been willing to use underhanded tactics to advance his causes. During the 2016 election, WikiLeaks was behind the release of thousands of emails that damaged the campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Stone was one of six Americans with ties to Trump who were formally charged with crimes after Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the election.

Roger Stone’s communications with Julian Assange

On April 29, the Associated Press reported that a media-brought court case had led to the release of documents related to an FBI investigation of Stone. The investigation found that Stone had communicated multiple times with Assange, who was in the midst of a seven-year…