Trump adviser says he had contact with Russian 'agent'

Washington

ROGER Stone Jr, an off-and-on adviser to President Donald Trump for decades, has acknowledged that he had contact on Twitter with Guccifer 2.0, the mysterious online figure that is believed to be a front for Russian intelligence officials.

It is the first time that someone associated with Mr Trump has confirmed any type of contact with Guccifer 2.0, who claimed to be a Romanian hacker and took credit for the hacking of the Democratic National Committee.

But Mr Stone insisted in an interview that the contact was brief and involved nothing more than the exchange of a few direct messages well after the Democrati…