Former Trump campaign staffer George Papadopoulos’ plea agreement with Robert Mueller’s special counsel’s office will remain in place, despite that both he and his wife believe they were targeted by overzealous anti-Trump investigators.
Chuck Ross, at The Daily Caller, explains:
“George should drop off his plea agreement, in my opinion,” Mangiante Papadopoulos told TheDCNF, shortly after she announced on Twitter that Papadopoulos was looking for new lawyers to represent him in his case.
Papadopoulos, 30, pleaded guilty on Oct. 5 to giving false statements to the FBI during a Jan. 26, 2017 interview with the FBI. The special counsel’s office said he made false statements about the timing of his interactions with Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor who claimed to have connections to the Russian government.
Papadopoulos acknowledged that Mifsud told him during an April 26, 2016 meeting in London that he had learned that the Russian government had “dirt” on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the form of “thousands” of her emails.
Two weeks later, Papadopoulos told Alexander Downer, who then served as Australia’s top diplomat to the U.K., that Russia had derogatory information on Clinton. More than two months later, the FBI would open its investigation into possible Trump campaign collusion based on the information from Downer.
Though Papadopoulos sparked the FBI’s collusion probe, he’s no longer the primary focus of Mueller’s investigation. Mueller has recommended Papadopoulos receive a sentence of between zero and six months in jail.
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