Filing an ethics complaint today with the Justice Department, attorneys representing 72-year-old conspiracy-theory author Jerome Corsi contend that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has tried to coerce “false testimony” against President Donald Trump. Corsi insists that Mueller wants him to testify against former Trump adviser Roger Stone that he lied to Congress about contacting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, currently holed up in London’s Ecuadorian embassy. Assange fled a rape charge in Sweden, receiving temporary asylum June 19, 2012 in London’s Ecuadorian embassy. Mueller wants to establish as link between Stone and Corsi, working with Russian intelligence to hack emails of the Democratic National Committee and former Hillary Rodham Clinton Campaign Chairman John D. Podesta, then release them through WikiLeaks July 6, 2016.
Mueller’s investigation so far hasn’t yielded any such link between Trump campaign officials and WikiLeaks, which released hacked emails damaging to Hillary and the Democratic National Committee. Corsi contends that Mueller wanted to make a plea deal admitting to making “false statements” to Congress, something short of a perjury conviction. “Dr. Corsi has been threatened with immediate indictment by Mueller’s prosecutorial staff unless he testified falsely against Roger Stone and/or President Donald Trump and his presidential campaign, among other false testimony,” said Corsi’s lawyers Larry Klayman [of Judicial Watch] and David Gray. Instead of caving in to Mueller’s demands, Corsi’s fighting back filing an ethics complaint with the Justice Department. Mueller wanted Corsi to accept a plea deal of making false statements about his communication with Stone.
Stone said publicly that he would never testify against Trump, prompting Trump to contrast him with his former personal attorney Michael Cohen. Cohen agreed Nov. 28 to a plea deal with Mueller, admitting to lying to Congress about his contracts with Russian officials for a possible Trump Tower project. Trump admitted that his business team was pursuing building opportunities in Moscow that never materialized, ending discussions in June 2017. Cohen told the House Intelligence Committee that he ended Russian contacts in Dec. 2016, when, in fact, they went on until June 2017. Cohen’s plea deal was viewed by the anti-Trump media as a smoking gun with regard to Trump-Russian collusion. Unlike Cohen, Corsi refused to play Mueller’s game, regardless of the risk of indictment. Corsi told prosecutors he didn’t speak with anyone on Trump’s team about WikiLeaks.
Mueller’s prosecutors cited emails sent by Corsi to Stone in 2016 talking about a possible WikiLeaks dump of incriminating emails against Hillary. Mueller’s prosecutors want Corsi to testify that he heard from Stone about the WikiLeaks email dump, because of Stone’s personal contacts with Julian Assange. Corsi rejected Mueller’s offer to plead to the lesser charge of making “false statements.” Corsi contends that it was his own sources of information, not Roger Stone or WikiLeaks that led to his speculation about a future WikiLeaks email dump. Mueller wants Corsi to admit he got the information from Stone, a close confidant of Assange. Corsi insists he did not intentionally mislead prosecutors something that would carry the “false charge” admission. What Corsi has shown is precisely the coercive methods used by Mueller to extract “false confessions” from various witnesses connected to the Russian probe.
Mueller’s intercepted Corsi email to Stone hints at some greater conspiracy. “Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I’m back, and in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging,” Corsi wrote to Stone in Aug. 2016. Mueller thinks Corsi’s email proves he had contacts in the Ecuadorian embassy with Assange. Assange denied in multiple interviews in 2016 that the emails came from the Kremlin or some other Russian intel service. Corsi admitted to talking to Stone about the WikiLeaks email dump exposing the DNC and former Hillary Campaign Chairman John D. Podesta. But Corsi as savvy author with Klayman and Gray plan to appeal newly minted interim Atty. Gen. Matthew Whittaker. Whitaker’s showed a willingness to consider that Mueller’s using strong-arm tactics against witnesses in the Russian interference and alleged Trump collusion probe.
Corsi said the Muller’s team has repeatedly made him promise of leniency if he admits to being a conduit between Stone and WikiLeak’s Julian Assange. Corsi denied that he had anything to do with WikiLeak’s document dumps implying that he coordinated or colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential campaign. Calling Cohen “weak,” Trump praised Stone for refusing to testify for Mueller against him. “I will never testify against Trump.” This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be force by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about “President Trump,” “Nice to know that some people still have ‘guts,’” Trump tweeted. As the probe winds down, Mueller looks more desperate to coerce at least some confession that Trump’s campaign team colluded with Russia to harm Hillary’s campaign.
