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Papadopoulos encouraged by campaign staffer to contact Russians
BY OLIVIA BEAVERS - 03/23/18 03:52 PM EDT
George Papadopoulos, the former foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign who has pled guilty to lying to the FBI, was reportedly encouraged by a senior-level campaign official to make contact with the Russians.
The campaign’s deputy communications director, Bryan Lanza, urged the young adviser in a September 2016 email to accept an interview with a Russian news agency shortly before the election concluded, The Washington Post reported Friday.
“You should do it,” Lanza wrote, pushing him to help improve the U.S. “partnership with Russia” ...
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/380002-papadopoulos-encouraged-by-trump-campaign-staffer-to-make-contact
