Posted on 12/31/2017 7:38:54 AM PST by COUNTrecount
A former Trump campaign aide who took a guilty plea in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe was the linchpin of the FBI’s investigation of Kremlin influence in the 2016 election, new reports say.
In a drunken gossip session with an Australian diplomat in London in May 2016, Trump aide George Papadopoulos claimed that Russia held political dirt on Hillary Clinton, The New York Times said Saturday.
Months later, e-mails hacked from the Democratic National Committee showed up on WikiLeaks, and the Australians told the FBI about the Papadopoulos conversation.
The disclosure sparked the FBI’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, sources told the Times.
Papadopoulos, 29, pleaded guilty in October to charges of lying to the FBI about contacts he had with Russians during the 2016 campaign. He is now a cooperating witness.
The ambitious aide made many attempts to insinuate himself into Trump’s campaign, which lacked the experienced political hands typical of presidential electoral effo
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THIS IS IT! WE GOT THE BASTARD NOW! < /CNN >
What does wikileaks have to do with Russia? Oh that’s right, the press just says it does because ... reasons. There’s no evidence at all. But it helps the narrative so beat that drum until it’s taken as fact.
Fake News. April 1st has become Groundhog Day at the NYT!
Sounds like some one is trying to start a new narrative.
This is b.s. The deep state is trying to muddy their fingerprints with this stupid narrative. Too late!!!
Mueller makes a case with what a drunk said oh wait he and pals are in fat city with all the money they are making.
He has nothing but he feeds media with BS it’s their favorite food.
Now ask yourself, if you were a top official of the DOJ or FBI, would you run out and spy on the opposing presidential candidate over this flimsy report, or would you have the sense not to go that far? Unless of course you were a dirty corrupt Democrat.
Hillary and her dogs?
“Months later, e-mails hacked from the Democratic National Committee showed up on WikiLeaks, and the Australians told the FBI about the Papadopoulos conversation.
The disclosure sparked the FBI’s probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, sources told the Times.”
Then this converstation, NOT the “Trump Dossier” should have been presented to FISA for warrants.
It wasn’t.
New narrative: Fail.
More fiction/disinformation from the New York Slimes enemedia.
The article (the original one found in the Slimes) reads like a slickly written blog.
Fake News!
These people are amazing ... they CANNOT let it go! What a bunch of jerks.
Or if you were actually a Russian spy, and it is appearing more and more likely that Andrew McCabe is.
Was FBI’s McCabe a Russian Spy?, Still Report #1958
https://youtu.be/QIeXGA6rHVM
Mueller is trying desperately to swim away from the discredited dossier justification for surveillance. We need to push back hard on this one.
Sounds like some one is trying to start a new narrative.
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Exactly. The fake Trump dossier had too many problematic Democrat connections so they needed a red herring.
April 2016?
That’s interesting because wasn’t that the same month Hillary aides Cheryl Mills and Huma Abedin were lying to the FBI’s Peter Strzok about when they learned of the private server.
yet Mueller never asked Assange here he got the emails from.
also:”Trump aide George Papadopoulos claimed that Russia held political dirt on Hillary Clinton”
That’s News???
That’s Collusion???
the only people in THE WORLD that believe Hitlerly was
spied on .. is rabid Demonrats- she and Bill have been
selling out the U.S. for DECADES- even to the Russians !-
-i.e. -Uranium One-
by the way they are still free and making millions on selling secrets to the highest bidder
protected by the the FBI and CIA
This is simply a “LOOK ... SQUIRREL, SQUIRREL!!” story to distract from the truth on the corrupt FBI using the “dossier” to get the FISA warrant approved.
Yup .... ground zero in May 2016 and the key player in kicking off probe ... but ... but ... they didn’t even get around to interviewing Poop-A-Doop until 8 months later in February, 2017 ... sad attempt to distract attention away from the Deep State:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/12/papadopoulos-or-the-dossier.php
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