Trump Associate Roger Stone Arrested in Mueller Probe, Maintains He Is Innocent

Shouting “FBI, open the door,” authorities arrested Roger Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, before dawn Friday in a criminal case that revealed that senior members of the Trump campaign sought to benefit from the release of hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton. Stone, a self-proclaimed “dirty trickster,” faced a seven-count indictment in the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller. He said after leaving jail on $250,000 bond that he plans to plead not guilty to the charges. “I will defeat them in court. I believe this is a politically motivated investigation,” Stone said, adding, “There is no circumstance whatsoever under which I will bear false witness against the president, nor will I make up lies to ease the pressure on myself.”