Steve Bannon to testify against Trump’s longtime political advisor Roger Stone

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In addition, Zelinsky noted that Stone lied in five categories to the Committee including about requests to obtain emails from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He alleged that Stone made false statements because the “truth looked bad for the Trump campaign and the truth looked bad for Donald Trump.”

Prosecutors will also call another former Trump top aide to testify 

Furthermore, Zelinsky also stated that he also plans to call Rick Gates, another former top aide to Trump’s 2016 campaign, to testify during the trial on Stone’s case.

Both Bannon and Gates are key witnesses in the Mueller probe. Prosecutors believe they could provide new details regarding Mueller’s findings about the Trump campaign’s contacts in the 2016 election. They alleged that Stone gave regular updates to people running the Trump campaign particularly those on the top level such as Bannon regarding information he obtained from WikiLeaks.

Bannon served as CEO of the Trump campaign in 2016. He later became part of the Trump administration as White House Chief Strategist.  Author Michael Wolf, quoted him saying the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a group of Russians was “treasonous” and “unpatriotic,” in book entitled, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”