THREAD: Reading the transcript from yesterday’s closing arguments. Cause a lot of this got lost yesterday I am going to tweet some of the highlights. There were some big moments. What else is there to do while we wait for a verdict.

Prosecutor: he was communicating with the Trump campaign about WikiLeaks' plans every chance he got.
Roger Stone knew that if this information came out, it would look really bad for his longtime associate Donald Trump, so he lied to the committee.

— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) November 14, 2019

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I'm not going to talk about every single issue that Mr. Rogow brought up, but I'm going to address a few of them. And the first one I want to address is motive.

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As my colleague Aaron Zelinsky said to you when this case first opened a week ago, the reason for Mr. Stone's motive was clear; the truth looked bad for the Trump campaign, and the truth looked bad for Donald Trump.

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Now Mr. Rogow says, well, this all happened after the campaign, after Donald Trump was elected.

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There was an investigation going on at that time as to whether any nefarious activity occurred during that campaign and whether people that were involved in government or involved in a campaign had colluded or had connections with Russia.

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You don't think if information came out that Mr. Stone, who was a former adviser of Mr. Trump, who was an associate of Mr. Trump, had been spending that time during the campaign trying to fish for information from WikiLeaks,

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knowing that that information was hacked, possibly by a foreign government, that wouldn't look bad? That wouldn't look bad? And that's why he tried to hide it.