Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Shouting ‘‘FBI, open the door,’’ authorities arrested Roger Stone, a confidant of President Trump, before dawn Friday in a criminal case that revealed that senior members of the Trump campaign sought to benefit from the release of hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton. The seven-count indictment against Stone, a self-proclaimed ‘‘dirty trickster’’ with a long history with Trump, is the first criminal case in months from special counsel Robert Mueller. Stone appeared at court in shackles later in the morning, did not enter a plea and was released on a $250,000 bond. Outside court, he raised his arms, formed ‘‘V'’ signs with his fingers and blasted the special counsel’s Russia probe as ‘‘politically motivated.’’ Stone vowed to fight the charges, saying he was ‘‘falsely accused’’ of making false statements to the House intelligence committee. He said any error he made in his testimony wasn’t intentional. The indictment provides the most detail to date about how Trump campaign associates in the summer of 2016 actively sought the disclosure of emails the U.S. says were hacked by Russia, then provided to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. It alleges that unidentified senior Trump campaign officials contacted Stone to ask when stolen emails relating to Clinton might be disclosed. Prosecutors did not charge Stone with conspiring with WikiLeaks or with the Russian officers Mueller says hacked the emails. Instead it mirrors other Mueller cases in alleging... Link to the full article to read more