Corsi says Mueller accused him of lying after he could not give him what he wanted

Fox News:
Conservative author Jerome Corsi told Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" on Tuesday that special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators accused him of lying under oath only after "I couldn't give them what they wanted."

Corsi insisted he did not knowingly give prosecutors false information. He said he forgot about the emails in question during his first interview with Mueller's team, noting they were among 60,000 contained on the laptop he provided to the special counsel's office.

Corsi spoke to Fox News one day after he announced he would reject a deal with investigators that would have required him to plead guilty to perjury. A draft court filing prepared as part of the abortive plea deal, which Corsi has provided to multiple media outlets, said Corsi notified Trump adviser Roger Stone in August 2016 that WikiLeaks intended to release information damaging to Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

"Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps. One shortly after I’m back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging," Corsi wrote to Stone in an email apparently referencing Assange. "Time to let more than [Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta] to be exposed as in bed w enemy if they are not ready to drop [Clinton]. That appears to be the game hackers are now about."

Days earlier, on July 25, the document stated that Stone emailed Corsi asking him to "Get to [Assange] [a]t Ecuadoran Embassy in London and get the pending [WikiLeaks] emails." The document indicated that Corsi forwarded Stone's email to Ted Malloch, a London-based author and Trump supporter who has said he was also questioned by Mueller.

Corsi told host Tucker Carlson that he has had "no contact with Julian Assange whatsoever" and claimed he initially told investigators that he did not remember forwarding Stone's initial email to Malloch.

"The special counsel came in ... and they actually sent me home and gave me an opportunity to review the emails," Corsi said. "When I came back, I amended the testimony to say that I now remember the email. The special counsel was happy with that until I couldn’t give them what they wanted, which was a connection that I had with Assange – that they assumed I had, which I didn’t have. Now suddenly, they forgot they allowed me to amend my testimony and they’re going back to the mistake I made when I forgot the email."
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The Mueller team appears to use the memory test as a means of extorting testimony.  Instead of showing a witness a document and asking for an explanation they hide the ball hoping to trip him up.  In a fair examination, they would show the witness a document so that he can refresh his memory about the events described.  Their cases against Gen. Flynn and George Papadopoulos follow a similar pattern and practice.

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