Former Trump adviser settles suit over false info on website
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Roger Stone, a former campaign adviser to Donald Trump, has settled a $100 million lawsuit accusing him of publishing false information on the InfoWars website.
The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui sued Stone in March. In the settlement reached Monday, Stone acknowledged that he publicly stated that Guo had been “convicted of financial crimes in the United States” and “violated U.S. election law.”
Stone now says, “All of these statements are not true.”
In a statement Tuesday, Stone clarified that “at no time did I knowingly publish material that I knew to be false.” Rather, he said, he made “the terrible mistake of relying on the representations of Sam Nunberg in my reporting.”