Roger Stone told Hill.TV’s “Rising” on Thursday that he plans to be truthful in talking with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team, saying he is not Michael Cohen.
“I will testify completely truthfully,” Stone told Hill.TV’s Buck Sexton and Krystal Ball. “When I said that on ABC, they said, ‘Oh, well, Stone has said he will cooperate with the special counsel.’ Well, cooperate in the sense that I will tell the truth.”
Stone, a longtime associate of President Trump who briefly served as an informal campaign adviser, was indicted last week in connection with Mueller’s Russia probe.
Stone is accused of lying to the House Intelligence Committee about his contacts regarding WikiLeaks, the organization that published hacked Democratic emails ahead of the 2016 election. U.S. officials later said the documents were stolen by Russian military hackers.
“I’m not going to bear false witness against anybody, including the president,” Stone told Hill.TV. “I don’t know of anything the president’s done wrong. I’m not going to testify against the president because I would have to perjure myself to do so, and I am not going to do that. I am not Michael Cohen.”
Cohen, who for years worked as Trump’s attorney and fixer, last year pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about plans to build a Trump property in Moscow and agreed to cooperate with Mueller’s team.
He also implicated the president in schemes to pay off women who alleged they had affairs with the president more than a decade earlier.
Trump and his allies have since launched public attacks against Cohen.
— Julia Manchester
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