New: Roger Stone tried to pay Julian Assange a visit today.

[MelissaB]

"Smart-Ass"

Roger Stone Says He Visited the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Where Julian Assange Is In Hiding

The former Trump campaign advisor told The Daily Beast that he had dropped by the embassy and left his business card for the WikiLeaks founder.

Nico Hines
01.31.18 6:29 PM ET

LONDON—Former Trump presidential campaign advisor Roger Stone paid a visit to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Wednesday where Julian Assange has been holed up for the last five years.

Stone is in Britain for a short speaking tour that will include addresses at the Oxford and Cambridge Unions. He told the Daily Beast that he had taken time out to drop by the embassy where Assange has been in hiding from an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct.

The connection between Stone and Assange has become a focal point in the investigation of links between Russia and the Trump campaign after it emerged that Stone had a communications backchannel with WikiLeaks, an organization described by the CIA as a “hostile intelligence service” “abetted by Russia.”

Stone said he had traveled to the embassy in Central London. He said he had not seen Assange in person but left his contact details for the controversial founder of WikiLeaks.

“I didn’t go and see him, I dropped off a card to be a smart ass,” he told The Daily Beast.

More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/roger-stone-says-he-visited-the-ecuadorian-embassy-in-london-where-julian-assange-is-in-hiding/

[MelissaB]

1. LOL! The last paragraph:

In the bar after giving a speech in support of Brexit, he chatted with a small group of people to whom he insisted that Assange was no agent of Russia but simply “a journalist.”

[Blue_Tires]

2. Stone is pretty much begging to get arrested at this point...

I mean, right on the heels of the Hannity thing too?

[dewsgirl]

3. These people are ridiculously brazen.

[struggle4progress]

4. Ecuador: "Hi! I'm Ecuador! And I'm protecting Julian Assange, who helped Russian intelligence

undermine the US election, bringing you Donald Trump!"
Russia: "You rock, Ecuador!"
World: "FU, Ecuador!"
Ecuador: "We really don't want Julian to die here in the embassy, because he already smells as ripe as a goat. But we can't just throw him out, because he fears being attacked by space aliens with slimy tentacles. So we need ideas. We tried cutting off his internet access for a while, but he still wouldn't leave. So then we thought: if we made him Ecuador's ambassador to the UK, maybe he could leave the embassy long enough for us to freshen the carpets"
UK: "Get stuffed!"
Ecuador: "Please send us your suggestions!"

[SummerSnow]

5. Whatever he visited him for, it could not be discussed on the phone, text or email.

It's juicy!!

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Do they exchange rape stories?

[JawJaw]

7. "Oh, Hi...."

"...just happened to get on a plane and fly halfway across the world....

....Julian in, is he....?"

[Mc Mike]

8. Hope British Intel is watching the groups that paid Stone for a speaking tour.

And any sentence that starts with 'Stone said' can automatically be ignored. Unless Stone says 'I'm a repuglinazi, and am using my carte blanche in mob and intel circles to help nazis take over the US.'