Mueller’s pursuit of Stone has almost nothing to do with possible collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign. From Jonathan Turley at thehill.com:
Indeed, if a deer could run over itself, then Stone is the ultimate roadkill defendant. Mueller has relentlessly pursued him for almost two years, and Stone has equally relentlessly taunted him and his team. Various grand jury witnesses recounted being questioned about Stone and theories of collusion for months. Mueller worked every evident angle before bringing down this indictment in what could be the final charging stage of his investigation. It was only last month that Mueller asked for the transcript of the testimony of Stone before Congress. Largely based on alleged false statements, the entirety of the indictment comes out of that transcript.
Of course, this is the same Roger Stone who described politics as little more than “performance art” and himself as an “agent provocateur.” Accusing him of false statements is akin to charging a circus clown with reckless driving, as Stone contradicts himself even in short interviews. Mueller has now pulled over this clown car, and what comes out may be entertaining but it is hardly consequential in proving Russia collusion.
A close review of the indictment reveals there is less than meets the eye to both Stone and his alleged crimes. The indictment contains the same collateral crimes used against every person who is not Russian charged by Mueller with false statements or unrelated crimes. Stone was charged on five overlapping claims of false statements in an indictment of seven counts. For example, Mueller alleges that Stone lied when he denied communicating through texts or emails with a WikiLeaks intermediary.
Since Stone must have known his texts and emails would be reviewed by the special counsel, it is certainly plausible that he simply did not recall such written messages since he admitted that he had communicated with the individual. Mueller also charged that Stone lied about having written messages referencing Assange. Notably, these were not communications with Assange but simply communications that refer to Assange. However, Stone admitted to wanting to contact Assange in public, told others that he did so, and only denied having written communications, which Mueller would ultimately review with the rest of the archived records for Stone.
Likewise, Stone is accused of falsely denying possession of emails with other people, or of lying about the intended meaning of prior statements about contacting Assange. Indeed, the falsity of some of his statements is not entirely clear. The third count states that Stone testified falsely that his August 2016 references to being in contact with the head of WikiLeaks were references to communications with a single intermediary who Stone identified as “Person Two.” The indictment does not allege such specific contacts with Assange. Thus, either Mueller is alleging that Stone told the truth the first time in claiming to contact Assange, or that he bizarrely lied about his lying about contacting Assange. Mueller then reused the false statements to add a redundant obstruction charge to the indictment.
Finally, Mueller charged Stone with witness tampering because he told a witness not to cooperate with the special counsel investigation, which falls into the same type of statements that Stone was making publicly. That witness also was speaking to Stone about his testimony, but Stone was the one making outlandish statements to stonewall Mueller. The witness, identified as “Person Two,” is believed to be New York comedian Randy Credico. In 2017, Stone told Credico to pull a Frank Pentangeli, the character from “The Godfather II” who refused to incriminate the mob boss and declared, “I don’t know nothing about that.” It was a uniquely stupid communication and seen as the most serious of the allegations.
Whether Stone is found guilty of lying to investigators or tampering with witnesses, nothing in the indictment suggests he took part in Russia collusion. Nevertheless, some commentators proclaimed the indictment was precisely what it clearly was not. House Judiciary Committee member Ted Lieu of California declared that, if the indictment is true, there is now unmistakable proof of collusion and Mueller “has the goods.” Speaking as a former prosecutor, Lieu said that this all “looks like collusion” because Stone spoke to Trump campaign officials and a senior Trump campaign official “was directed to contact Stone about any additional releases.”
That theme was picked up by other news outlets, which declared that communications between Trump campaign officials and a leading Trump supporter on the WikiLeaks material is finally the long awaited proof of a conspiracy. That is wrong. Stone has previously admitted to wanting to see WikiLeaks material, as did Trump himself on the campaign trail. Many reporters also wanted to see the WikiLeaks material during this period.
Seeking the WikiLeaks material is not illegal. Both campaigns actively sought dirt on each other, including from Russian sources. What is illegal is conspiring to hack a computer system or steal files, and Stone is snot accused of any such actions. None of that makes this indictment invalid. There are indeed conflicts in his testimony before Congress. However, a conviction of Stone will not yield much of a winning trophy for Mueller.
Of course, Mueller now must deal in federal court with someone who has long maintained that “if you are not controversial, you will never break through the din of all the commentary.” Well, Stone certainly has broken through the din, right into a criminal prosecution. This will be the final episode of what he once called the “Stone Zone.” His trial will include the challenge of proving a witness tampering charge based on a conversation between a comedian and a clown in this true case of performance art.
STRAIGHT LINE LOGIC 
What it all appears to be is a police state flea circus, what you see happen in a banana republic, when the ruling junta is going after leadership of opposition populist grass roots movement. Only thing they have not done is put a hit on anyone higher in the political class then Seth Rich or lawyers and Haitian whistle blowers. Have to put LeVoy Finnicum in that group, bless his brave heart and soul.
Mueller is one of the made men of the federal organized crime syndicate. Loyal to the clinton crime family but at this stage he is trying to pull the deep state out of its tail spin of crisis of legitimacy.
So it seems, he is one of the visible look its a squirrel components of the palace coup to oust President Trump.
It isn’t much more complicated than that, except for the mind blowing corruption and treason, murder, and conspiracy, all of them have spent their entire careers involved in.
And that is a serious crux of motivation. Regardless of their ideology or how justified they consider themselves, being our self anointed betters, as “patriotic” last ditch crusaders to save their precious Nomenklaturer class job welfare system, and the corruption perks of their administrative centralized state, by blaming anyone even having thoughts the leviathan has to be redressed or Lord forbid gone, all of which takes a back burner to doing what they always do to cover their arses first. Getting caught out is the ultimate apostasy among these actors.
The finger pointing being anyone remotely a threat, is made into an enemy of the state, thus the fear created amongst the unaware and unawake, you create the application of Totalitarianism’s favorite tactic of divide and conquer. Hence we see the 24/7/365 smear campaign to strip Mr. Trump of his political and moral legitimacy, thus taking power of consent for him, hence nullifying 64 million Deplorable’s power of their consent, thus nullifying a legitimate in every sense of the meaning Presidential and electoral college election.
Its all down to two things:
1, Legitimacy
2, Guns in the hands of the dirt people
Look at it in this light, it becomes clear, both things represent free people, they are natural instruments of their individual self determination, and the actions they take, constitute components of their Liberty.
What this represents to the actors we call the deep state, is the most feared of threats, they understand as a tyrant can this is existential stuff, it must be stopped, hidden, co-opted, buried, destroyed, at all costs, because this will destroy them.
The funny thing here, it is the only thing which defeats the deep state, short of a foreign entity cleansing the deep states existence with thermonuclear weapons.
They are pulling out the stops, riding on the very edge of mutiny and treason, certainly sedition hourly because the agitprop theater the false media runs for plausible deniability cover for them.
The daring of breeching of once sacred aspects of the office of POTUS, taboos never to be violated are something else to witness. Sure its hubristic on biblical scale, the arrogance and betrayal of the precepts and tenets of western civilization sure has the odor of desperation. That these actors in the swamp and media complex are resorting to this base behavior of desperation of trying anything, making nothing off limits, it speaks volumes the deep state is in disarray, lethal dire straights.
It no longer looks to me like an omnipotent untouchable elitist indefeatable remote dark secret oligarchy.
Looks plain as day what it is, a syndicate of very successful wealthy organized crime thugs, and their solders, who are facing the wrath of at least 64 million dirt people who have had quite enough of these crooks and traitors, who regardless of everything done to them from what happened to the Tea Party, to LeVoy Finnicum and his fellow Ranchers out west, Randy Weaver, the Branch Dividian’s, Fast & Furious, the obvious fraud and vote rigging of barrack obama and his regime, all the way up to the bald outright arrogance, theft, and crimes of homicide of the Clintons, to the dirty rotten stinking totally unwarranted treatment, and rigged public persecution of Donald Trump and his family/tribe.
These scumbags and their trash has to go.
Its simple.
I am by far, by millions, not the only dirt person who see’s the truth here.
You cant change the truth we know and understand into something it is not.
Can’t coerce, force, threaten me or most of us out of seeing, and yes, acting on the truth.
It is a Genie that cant be stuffed back in its bottle.
We know, because we are on the grass roots elevations, nothing can go back to what it was.
MAGA is not a corny phrase or wonderful provincial mom & apple pie catchy slogan of patriotism, it is a mandate, with a death sentence clause for the deep state at the end of it.
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