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Some things to consider right off the bat...

They really took their time with this and the 7 charges brought against Stone by the grand jury are likely not the last. Stone is in deep, deep, trouble.

The filing on Stone's arrest specifically mentions the prosecutors have evidence that top Trump campaign officials were directed to contact and remain in contact with Stone to get information about what WikiLeaks (acting as a front for Russian intelligence) had on Hillary Clinton and when that stolen information would be released as the information and timing would be beneficial to the Trump campaign.

This would likely lead to conspiracy charges against the person or people on the Trump campaign that were directing and executing the exchange between Stone/WikiLeaks/Russian Intelligence. This appears to be yet another one of the "private" (meaning intentionally outside the knowledge and view of US government and law enforcement) Russian back channels so many people in the Trump campaign endeavored to set-up.

This does not look good for Don Jr. as he was directly involved with attempting to collude with and establish back channel communications with Russian intelligence to gain access to this same stolen material. Donny Jr. has long been saying he believes he is going to be indicted. It certainly looks like he could end up arrested soon...if that happens I think it will mean the Russia probe is pretty much completed because once they arrest the president's son, Trump will have the most tremendous public meltdown we have seen so far.

Trump is planning a response to the Stone arrest and it is to attempt to declare a national emergency at the border and announce he is taking (essentially stealing) $7 billion to have the army begin to build his wall. He is hoping this mayhem will distract everybody from the new headline. They already got it out there they are drafting plans to announce a national emergency.

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