After Mueller Comes Up Empty, His Targets Speak Out (Cliensmith interviewed Papadopoulos)

Rea Clear Politics ^ | 6/8/2019 | Paul Sperry

[CaptainK]

George Papadopoulos

A junior member of the Trump foreign policy advisory team in 2016, George Papadopoulos was approached by FBI agents in Chicago, where he lived with his mother after the election while waiting for what he hoped would be an offer to join the new administration. The agents said they just wanted to talk to him about contacts he’d made with people in London during the campaign.

He spoke to them without a lawyer or the benefit of notes, emails or a calendar to refresh his recollection — a decision he would later regret. One of the interviews was run by FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, who was later pulled off Mueller's team after the inspector general exposed his anti-Trump text messages. Clinesmith zeroed in on Papadopoulos' conversations with a supposedly Kremlin-tied diplomat in London, Joseph Mifsud.

Then on July 27, 2017, while returning to the U.S. from a trip to Greece, at least a half dozen of Mueller’s agents stopped him at Washington Dulles International Airport. They searched his bags, confiscated his passport and slapped handcuffs and leg shackles on him. They also seized his cellphone and demanded he tell them his passcode to access it.

“This is what happens when you work for Trump,” growled one agent — one of several Mueller investigators Papadopoulos described as “mean, nasty and underhanded.”

[edwinland]

My mistake. I read the posting date as the article date.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Disagree. People are going to prison and it will for lying to the feds and the FISA abuse. Politically, that satisfies a Trump’s base. Along with the wall and economy Trump wins in a landslide.

[Fraxinus]

People are going to prison and it will for lying to the feds and the FISA abuse.

Only if we the people continue to respond "convictions or there is no accountability" every time they claim they are getting to the bottom of what was tried with the Mueller team.