According to the documents, Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen told federal investigators he overheard a July 2016 phone call between Stone and then-candidate Trump in which Stone claimed to have spoken with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. "Cohen believed the call occurred before July 22, 2016, when WikiLeaks released its first tranche of Russian-stolen DNC [Democratic National Committee] emails. Stone then told the candidate that he had just gotten off the phone with Julian Assange and in a couple of days WikiLeaks would release information. On July 22, 2016, WikiLeaks released a trove of 20,000 emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) server. "Stone told Trump and his campaign in advance about WikiLeaks’ planned release of Clinton emails Russia stole," Schiff wrote, adding: "No wonder they kept this hidden."

Source: Fox News June 20, 2020 02:26 UTC