The former Trump adviser Roger Stone faced questions on Monday over the publication of a book and new Instagram posts that may have violated a gag order prohibiting him from making public statements about the legal proceedings against him. The office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, notified a federal judge about an Instagram post that Mr. Stone posted on Sunday mimicking a poster of the 1988 film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” Under a portrait of himself he asked the question, “Who Framed Roger Stone?”The post came two days after the judge, Amy Berman Jackson of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, ordered Mr. Stone to explain why he did not tell her he was publishing a book that provides a defense for himself barely a week after she issued a gag order prohibiting him from making public statements about the criminal case against him. She was referring to a new edition of Mr. Stone’s book “The Myth of Russian Collusion: The Inside Story of How Donald Trump REALLY Won” that was published on Friday.

Source: New York Times March 05, 2019 02:37 UTC