By Justin Rohrlich
Quartz
January 26, 2019
US special counsel Robert Mueller arrested Donald Trump’s longtime friend and ally Roger Stone on Friday (Jan. 25), charging him with obstructing a congressional investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, witness tampering, and making false statements.
Part of the evidence Mueller used to build his case came from Stone’s own WhatsApp messages, according an indictment (pdf) unsealed on Friday. The 24-page document details Stone’s communications about an entity referred to as “Organization 1,” which the court filing makes clear is WikiLeaks, during the 2016 presidential campaign. According to the indictment, Stone communicated regularly with “senior Trump Campaign officials,” to whom he delivered stolen emails that were surfaced by WikiLeaks, and that he promised would be damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
