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struggle4progress

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Sat Sep 1, 2018, 03:55 PM Sep 2018

He nodded at suggestion of Putin meeting

Associated Press
Sat 1 Sep 2018 13.43 EDT

Donald Trump “nodded with approval” at the suggestion of a meeting with Vladimir Putin, according to a court filing that seeks leniency for a former campaign aide who lied to the FBI.

Lawyers for George Papadopoulos are seeking probation, saying the foreign policy adviser misled agents during a January 2017 interview not to harm the investigation, but rather to “save his professional aspirations and preserve a perhaps misguided loyalty to his master”.

Papadopoulos’s filing also states that Jeff Sessions was also in favor of a Trump-Putin meeting, which publicly contradicts the attorney general’s sworn testimony to Congress ...

He is due to be sentenced on Friday, 7 September ...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/01/papadopoulos-trump-nodded-at-suggestion-of-putin-meeting


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He nodded at suggestion of Putin meeting (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2018 OP
Trump and allies dismiss Papadopoulos as the 'coffee boy' struggle4progress Sep 2018 #1
I was being loyal...isnt a defense to a crime. Crutchez_CuiBono Sep 2018 #2
Did you say "door buzzard"? ProudLib72 Sep 2018 #4
OMG. Crutchez_CuiBono Sep 2018 #5
Oh Hekate Sep 2018 #8
Ex-Trump campaign adviser: Papadopoulos was just a 'coffee boy' struggle4progress Sep 2018 #3
Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo struggle4progress Sep 2018 #6
Adviser Was More Than A Coffee Boy, Fiancee Says struggle4progress Sep 2018 #7

struggle4progress

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1. Trump and allies dismiss Papadopoulos as the 'coffee boy'
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 03:56 PM
Sep 2018

By LOUIS NELSON
10/31/17, 5:56 PM CET
Updated 12/11/17, 11:33 AM CET

President Donald Trump and his allies fought back Tuesday against special counsel Robert Mueller’s wave of indictments against former campaign aides, dismissing an ex-foreign policy adviser who cut a plea deal with prosecutors as a “liar” and nothing more than the “coffee boy.”

The White House was rocked on Monday after Mueller’s team went public with charges against former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Rick Gates, another campaign aide, including money laundering and other crimes related to the pair’s relationship with pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine.

It was also revealed that prosecutors had struck a plea deal with George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser for the campaign who admitted to lying to the FBI regarding his interactions with Russia-linked contacts, including a promise of “thousands of emails” and “dirt” on Hillary Clinton ...

https://www.politico.eu/article/trump-russia-election-papadopoulos-as-the-coffee-boy/

struggle4progress

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3. Ex-Trump campaign adviser: Papadopoulos was just a 'coffee boy'
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 03:58 PM
Sep 2018

By Maegan Vazquez, CNN
Updated 9:28 AM ET, Tue October 31, 2017

Washington (CNN) Former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo downplayed George Papadopoulos' role in the 2016 campaign, calling him a volunteer "coffee boy" -- despite the fact that then-candidate Donald Trump called him an "excellent guy" last year.

"He never showed up at Trump Tower. Never had any interaction with any of the campaign leaders around me, and the leaders of the Washington office of the campaign didn't even know who he was until his name appeared in the press," Caputo told CNN's "New Day" on Tuesday.

On Monday, it was revealed that Papadopoulos, a foreign policy adviser for the Trump presidential campaign, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about interactions with foreign officials close to the Russian government ...

https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/31/politics/caputo-papadopoulos-coffee-boy-cnntv/index.html

struggle4progress

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6. Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 04:02 PM
Sep 2018

By Quinta Jurecic, Benjamin Wittes
Saturday, August 18, 2018, 3:58 PM

... The government’s sentencing memorandum ... makes clear that Papadopoulos’s cooperation was always grudging and limited, and it strongly suggests that it never amounted to all that much. “The defendant did not provide ‘substantial assistance,'” Mueller’s team writes, “and much of the information provided by the defendant came only after the government confronted him with his own emails, text messages, internet search history, and other information it had obtained via search warrants and subpoenas well after the defendant’s FBI interview as the government continued its investigation.”

... the memo makes clear that his cooperation .. amounted to a handful of proffer sessions. Within a relatively short time, he had begun talking to the press — including an interview with an unnamed “national publication” — and the government canceled further interviews. Notably, the sentencing memo does not request a departure from the normal sentencing guidelines for 18 U.S.C. 1001 and recommends a sentence within the guidelines’ range of zero to six months ...

Not only did Papadopoulos lie to investigators, the memo says, he lied repeatedly, after the agents informed him that doing so would be a “federal offense” and that the investigation was a matter of great importance. He falsely said “at least a dozen” times that Mifsud told him of Russia’s “dirt” on Clinton in Feb. 27, before he joined the Trump campaign, when in fact Mifsud had reached out to him in March 2016, after he had signed on as a foreign policy adviser to the campaign. (It was, Papadopoulos said, “a very strange coincidence” to be informed of the “dirt” before his association with the campaign.) He also downplayed the extent and subject of his communications with Mifsud and the Russian woman, falsely giving investigators the impression that he did not believe the two to have high-level connections to the Russian government. And when asked if he had met with any Russian nationals—or, amusingly, anyone “with a Russian accent”—he lied and did not tell the FBI of his communications with the Russian close to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ...

... he sought to further cover his tracks, deactivated his Facebook account — which documented his communications with Mifsud and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contact—and “obtained a new phone.”

The memo also makes clear that Papadopoulos’s lies ... “were intended to harm the investigation, and did so.” Most importantly, his dissembling prevented the FBI from detaining or arresting Mifsud in Washington, D.C., in the winter of 2017. Mifsud subsequently left the United States, according to the memo, and has not returned ...

https://www.lawfareblog.com/myth-busting-papadopoulos-sentencing-memo

struggle4progress

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7. Adviser Was More Than A Coffee Boy, Fiancee Says
Sat Sep 1, 2018, 04:06 PM
Sep 2018

February 12, 20185:00 AM ET
TOM DREISBACH
KELLY MCEVERS

... "He was somebody that played a minimal role, if one at all," press secretary Sarah Sanders said last fall ...

More recently, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., the chairman of the House intelligence committee and an ally of the Trump White House, told Fox News that Papadopoulos "never even had met with the president."

This is false. Then-candidate Trump tweeted a photo of a foreign policy meeting with several advisers, including Papadopoulos. Nunes' recently released memo also makes clear that the FBI began its investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential race and possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign because of Papadopoulos ...

But his fiancee, Simona Mangiante, ... is telling a much different story than the one coming from the White House ...

She .. says it will be "easy to prove" how significant Papadopoulos' role was, because "all of his communication, professional communication with other people with the campaign, <was> via email" ...

https://www.npr.org/2018/02/12/584855759/former-trump-campaign-adviser-was-more-than-a-coffee-boy-fiancee-says



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