‘I think my crime, really, was that I dared to support Donald Trump’: Roger Stone associate hints he may be indicted in the Russia probe

• Jerome Corsi, a far-right political commentator and longtime associate of Roger Stone, says he will be indicted for perjury.
• Corsi was served a subpoena in August by special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before a grand jury.
• Mueller reportedly has evidence suggesting Corsi could have had prior knowledge of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s hacked emails, which were later delivered to and published online by the secrets-leaking organization WikiLeaks.

Jerome Corsi, a far-right political commentator and longtime associate of Roger Stone, says he will be indicted for perjury as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation.

“I fully anticipate that the next few days I will be indicted by Mueller for some form rather [sic] of giving false information to the special counsel … or [however] they want to do the indictment,” Corsi said on a YouTube livestream. “But I’m going to be criminally charged.”

“I think my crime, really, was that I dared to support Donald Trump,” Corsi said. “Supporting President Trump … Now I’m going to have to go to prison the rest of my life because I dared to oppose the deep state.”

Corsi was served a subpoena in August by Mueller to testify before a grand jury. Mueller was reportedly investigating whether Corsi had prior knowledge of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s hacked emails, which was later delivered to and published online by secrets-leaking organization WikiLeaks; and whether he passed those emails to Stone.

Stone, a GOP strategist and former adviser to Donald Trump, was under scrutiny by the special counsel for his connection with Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ founder, and Guccifer 2.0, an online identity believed to be part of the Russia’s military intelligence arm.

The US intelligence community broadly believes the hacked emails were a Russia-sponsored effort to influence the 2016 US presidential elections.

Federal prosecutors indicted 12 Russian military officers for the hack in July, and provided evidence that connected WikiLeaks’ ties to Guccifer 2.0.

Corsi, formerly the Washington bureau chief of conspiracy theory website InfoWars, suggested Mueller had material evidence for his case.

“When they have your emails and phone records … they’re very good at the perjury trap,” Corsi said to NBC producer Anna Schecter.

In 2016, days before a trove of emails were leaked, Stone made several statements on Twitter that eventually attracted attention from investigators. Stone previously tweeted “it will soon [be] Podesta’s time in the barrel,” in reference to John Podesta, Clinton’s embattled campaign manager, whose emails were breached.

Corsi later claimed to be the inspiration behind Stone’s tweets suggesting Podesta’s situation. One person familiar with the situation said Mueller’s team was reviewing communcations with Trump’s associates, in which Corsi and Stone appeared to take credit for the release of the hacked emails, according to NBC News.

Corsi denied have prior knowledge of the emails.

“For the record, I have never had any communication of any kind with Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, or Guccifer 2.0, or any Russian agents of any kind, including those mythical Russian agents who the Democrats believe wanted to throw the election for Trump,” Corsi reportedly wrote on InfoWars in March 2017.