In this case it was a message to one person as clear as a wrapped fish. He is saying that if Trump doesn’t protect him he won’t be offering up some low level staffer when he flips, he’ll be flipping on the one person with the power to protect him. It is meant to sound like incompetence, but it is clearly a threat. Stone isn’t a mainstream politician who needs to maintain a good reputation. He simply needs to avoid a successful prosecution. Anything short of that only helps his marketability for the niche he fills in our political ecosystem.
