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Kellyanne Conway's husband accused President Donald Trump of witness tampering by praising Roger Stone for refusing to testify against him.
Stone has said he expects to be indicted in the special counsel probe of Russian election interference, although he says Robert Mueller has not yet contacted him, and the president tweeted out praise for his old pal's "guts."
“'I will never testify against Trump.' This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about 'President Trump,'" Trump tweeted. "Nice to know that some people still have 'guts!'"
George Conway, a conservative attorney and husband of the White House adviser, tweeted out a statute covering tampering with a witness, victim or an informant.
Conway's frequent writing partner Neal Katyal, former acting Solicitor General of the United States during the Obama administration, agreed with his assessment.
"George is right," Katyal tweeted. "This is genuinely looking like witness tampering. DOJ (at least with a nonfake AG) prosecutes cases like these all the time. The fact it's done out in the open is no defense. Trump is genuinely melting down, and no good lawyer can represent him under these (circumstances)."
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