Longtime political operative Roger Stone denied that he was a conduit between the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks, the shadowy whistleblower group that published Hillary Clinton’s hacked emails during the 2016 presidential race, claiming he’s being persecuted for playing basic politics.

Stone said he got a “solid tip” from comedian Randy Credico, a witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, that whatever WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had revealed in two media interviews in the summer of 2016 would come out in October and they would be “devastating to Clinton.”

“What I’m guilty of is politics,” he told “Morano in the Morning” Sunday on AM 970’s “The Answer.” “I took that information and I puffed it, I hyped it, I bluffed, I postured because I was trying to draw as much attention to what was going to be released as possible for votes – that’s called politics.”

Asked directly whether he acted as a link between WikiLeaks and the Trump campaign, Stone replied “absolutely, positively not.”

Stone, an informal Trump adviser, said he had “no advance notice of the content or the source of the WikiLeaks material.”

He said he turned over to the House Intelligence Committee any direct messages on Twitter that he sent to WikiLeaks.

During the interview, host Frank Morano said he reached out to Credico to see if he wanted to dispute Stone’s claims.

“Not a chance,” he said Credico replied.

Trump campaign officials have told Mueller that Stone created the impression that he was an intermediary for WikiLeaks, which had emails hacked from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee by Russian agents and planned to publish them, the New York Times reported.

In an Aug. 21, 2016, tweet, Stone predicted: “trust me, it will soon the Podesta’s time in the barrel.”

On Oct. 7, WikiLeaks began dumping thousands of hacked emails from John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman.

Stone, in the Sunday interview, said he was referring to Podesta and his brother Tony, who had connections with the same Kremlin-linked Ukranian politicians that Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort had.

“My motive at that time, of course, was that Manafort was getting the daylights kicked out of him in the media over his Eastern European business activities,” Stone said. “I knew the Podestas had made millions from the oligarchs around Putin. I didn’t need Podesta’s emails to know that. that was public information.”

Tony Podesta stepped down from his lobbying firm in October 2017 after reports revealed it was connected to Manafort’s company.

Manafort pleaded guilty to a slew of federal charges, including money laundering and bank fraud, and is cooperating with Mueller’s investigators.