Downer told The Australian in an April 28 interview:
There was no indication in the short exchange with Papadopoulos that Trump was aware of the damaging information, Downer also said.
“By the way, nothing [Papadopoulos] said in that conversation indicated Trump himself had been conspiring with the Russians to collect information on Hillary Clinton. It was just that this guy, [Papadopoulos], clearly knew that the Russians did have material on Hillary Clinton — but whether Trump knew or not?” Downer explained.
“He didn’t say Trump knew or that Trump was in any way involved in this. He said it was about Russians and Hillary Clinton; it wasn’t about Trump,” Downer told The Australian.
Papadopoulos’s reference to Clinton material was vague, Downer suggested. “He didn’t say dirt; he said material that could be damaging to her. No, he said it would be damaging. He didn’t say what it was.”
Downer also suggested the meeting was brief and Papadopoulos was not drunk, as has been widely reported. According to the profile, Downer and Papadopoulos spoke over a “single short drink.”
This is aside from the fact that, to-date, there has been not a single bit of data - leaked or otherwise - pertaining to said "dirt". This includes the alleged Weiner laptop emails.
The entire basis for the "investigation" was rooted in Papadopoulos and Page. As the scrutiny increases, it's patently-obvious there was no "there there"...
...and a good Sherlock Holmes sees all the pieces magically align to a rather haphazard, but intentional series of actions more befitting an adapting intelligence operation than an investigation outlined in any criminal justice treatise...
Perjury traps are problematic. Yet political campaigns attract “hanger ons” that are inexperienced in an environment that requires maturity and judgement. They make mistakes, though well intentioned, that can be costly to the person and campaign.
The kid was a mole. This perjury charge is "protection" for the guy. The FBI and CIA lie their a**** off cuz they can do that.
And the Other "shady" character is Downer, the Australian Diplomat that gave the CLINGTON CRIME FAMILY SLUSH FUND $25 MILLION...$25 MILLION, let that sink in,....and he tells the STATE DEPARTMENT (Hilliary's STATE DEPT) that the Russians have Hilliary's e-mails!!!
WHAT THE HELL AM I MISSING?? WHAT IS THE CRIME?? It wouldn't even be a Crime if the SHADY people GAVE them to low level George!!
Seriously.....someone tell me what the CRIME is??
What needs a closer look... a look please.. is hillary. Justice is dancin’ at the moon until they go after the one who took cash, sold our uranium, left her email open to anyone and destroyed government documents/information. Its crap intil they get her and obama... just crap!
McCarthy: “It is very hard to understand what is going on here”
Why didn’t Papadop fight more strongly against Mueller’s and Rhee’s accusation that he lied to the FBI?
Think about how hard it would be for the Special Counsel to actually get a conviction of Papadop if they were to take him to trial.
They really believe a jury is going to send this young man to prison for mis-remembering the exact date he met the professor guy when he didn’t even have his appointments calendar to refer to when talking to the FBI? Mueller also charged Papadop with lying to the FBI when he said Mifsud was really a nobody who was embellishing his connections to important people. But based on what is now reported about Mifsud, doesn’t it sound like Papadop was actually right about Mifsud?
So why did Papadop roll over and plead guilty to lying to the FBI?
I strongly suspect for the same reason General Flynn pleaded guilty. They had something else they were holding over Papadop’s head. Remember how reportedly the Special Counsel threatened to go after General Flynn’s son? And how they were bankrupting Flynn with the investigation into his life and various activities?
Think back to March and April of 2016. We now know that unidentified “outside contractors” (Crowdstrike? Fusion GPS? Organizing for America?) had unfettered and untraceable access to the vast NSA database of captured upstream communications until April 18, 2016, when NSA head Admiral Mike Rogers discovered this and shut down this access.
On March 21, 2016, Papadop was publicly announced as one of a handful of Trump’s foreign policy advisors.
Does anyone think Hillary/Obama people with access to the NSA database did not immediately search for Papadop’s comms?
Imagine a Google search box but instead when you put in someone’s name you get all of their phone calls, text messages, emails, DMs, social media posts, plus all of that by other people talking about the person.
And unlike Michael Cohen, George Papadopoulos is not a common name. There are a lot of Michael Cohens running around, some touring Prague, some not. Hard to track down the one you want in the NSA database.
Not so for Papadop. I suspect when they searched the NSA (and probably the GCHQ database, as well) for Papadop they turned up some dirt they could use against him.
Maybe he likes nose candy. Maybe he cheated on his wife/girlfriend. Maybe he was running some kind of financial scam. Maybe he lied on a visa application. Who knows.
But I’m guessing that by abusing our national security intelligence tools, they got leverage over Papadop and, like Flynn, used that to get him to plead guilty to a ridiculous charge that would help them push along the narrative of Trump collusion with Russia with the ultimate goal of impeachment and removal.
Andrew McCarthy for AG !
All of America knows that so-called “Russiagate” is a sham and a political scam.
On October 28, 2016, Comey re-opened his “inquiry” into Hillary’s admittedly illegal, classified information revealing email server, it had come to light that there were thousands more emails that had not been looked at. He had to re-open it to cover his backside. Then he almost immediately, on November 6, he closed it and exonerated her a second time. Less than two weeks!
Get this: there was only an “inquiry” into Hillary’s email server which was admittedly illegal. No one disputes that it was illegal. They may play politics and try to change the language to say it was a careless decision. Yes, it was, and an illegal one. But the so-called “Russiagate” INVESTIGATION has no underlying crime. It has cost nearly $20M and lasted more than a year.
The American people all know this is a scam, sham, fraud, and there is a double-standard within the halls of power.
I heard Victoria Toensing say that they used a honey trap against Papadopoulos — that before he had his inebriated chat with the Australian Clintonista, some blonde had been plying him with drinks. Is there any confirmation of this?
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