Jerome Corsi goes strangely quiet [updated]

| 5:15 pm EST November 26, 2018
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This morning, Roger Stone associate Jerome Corsi reversed course and announced to the media that he won’t be cutting a Trump-Russia plea deal with Special Counsel Robert Miller after all. If you’ve been paying close attention, this probably didn’t come as a surprise. As Palmer Report has been documenting, Corsi has spent the past several days tweeting like someone who’s definitely not cutting a deal. But now something seems to have changed.

Just hours after Jerome Corsi told reporters over the holiday weekend that he was negotiating a plea deal, he began tweeting and retweeting a series of deranged false claims about Mueller. This antithetical behavior from Corsi continued, all day every day, until late last night. But since then, he’s gone strangely quiet. In other words, now that he’s announced he’s not cutting a plea deal, he’s finally behaving like someone who is cutting a deal.

This doesn’t necessarily mean that Corsi is back at the negotiating table. There are other reasons to go quiet, such as finally listening to your attorney, who is always going to tell you to shut up when you’re on the verge of being indicted. But it sure is weird that, after spending his entire “negotiation” period ranting about Mueller and begging his supporters to fund his legal defense, he’s now finally gone quiet. Update: after eighteen hours of silence, Corsi posted a tweet reading “I have REJECTED Mueller’s plea deal” just 49 minutes after this article was published.