A political consultant and former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump says he communicated last year with an individual involved in hacking Democratic National Committee emails. Stone told The Washington Times in an interview that his private Twitter exchange with "Guccifer 2.0" was "so perfunctory, brief and banal" that he had forgotten about it. Emails stolen from the chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign were later released by the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks. The U.S. government later concluded that the Russian government directed the DNC hack in an attempt to influence the outcome of the presidential election. In an email Thursday to The Washington Times, Stone denied having any contacts with the Russian state, Russian intelligence officials or "anyone fronting for them or acting as intermediaries for them."

Source: ABC News March 11, 2017 16:07 UTC