Mueller is reportedly taking a close look at Trump's late-night phone calls with Roger Stone


Sorry, Sean Hannity — you're not the only person special enough to receive late-night phone calls from President Trump.
Roger Stone, one of Trump's longtime friends and an adviser during the early days of his presidential campaign, would routinely receive calls from Trump before the election, at all hours of the night, The Washington Post reports. As part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team is looking at Stone and whether he knew in advance about WikiLeaks publishing hacked Democratic emails.
The Trump Organization has provided investigators with phone records showing that Trump and Stone did regularly communicate during the campaign, people familiar with the matter told the Post, but Stone is adamant that they never talked about the emails or WikiLeaks. He scoffed at the records, telling the Post the only thing that would matter is if Mueller "has tape recordings of the phone calls." People with knowledge of the matter told the Post that Trump insisted to his lawyers he knew nothing about WikiLeaks having stolen emails and never spoke about the matter with Stone.
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Stone told the Post that Trump would ring him late at night because he "gets almost no sleep," and would call from blocked numbers, sometimes borrowing the phones of friends and aides. "When Donald Trump calls you, he does most of the talking," Stone said. "You do most of the listening."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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