The wife of Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone is using the email distribution list of former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich to request contributions for her husband�s legal defense.

Nydia Stone said in a lengthy email Tuesday that she and her husband were roused by the FBI at their Florida home in a �terrifying pre-dawn� raid. She said her husband is facing �fabricated� charges aimed at getting him to turn on Trump, and that she and her husband are seeking donations for what she says could be a $2 million defense.

Stone has pleaded not guilty in special counsel Robert Mueller�s Russia investigation to charges including making false statements and obstructing a congressional probe into potential coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign.

She echoed a line from her husband in saying that he �refuses to make up stories about the president or bear false witness against him.�

A Gingrich aide says Gingrich regularly rents his Virginia-based company�s email list to people or causes as long as they�re not �totally off brand.� The aide says Stone�s email was approved after Gingrich�s team determined the message was largely in line with Gingrich�s criticism of Mueller�s investigation.

The aide noted that the email clearly stated that it was from a sponsor, not Gingrich directly. The email list goes to around 250,000 people.

(AP)