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 Muellers Russia probe was the linchpin of the FBIs 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 FBIs 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 Trumps campaign, which lacked the experienced political hands typical of presidential electoral effo
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Everything open and on the table. Nothing will disinfect the rot that is the Mueller investigation like sunshine.
Fake news. They used the dossier
Another nothing burger. Again.
They think we are SO STUPID!!!
DON’T LOOK AT THE STEELE DOSSIER!
LOOK OVER HERE!
SQUIRREL!!!
Of course they have ‘dirt’ on her. She is an evil traitor and has been working for years destroying all that is good. Those who don’t believe her depraved are mindless, brainwashed, simpletons. (Likely highly educated #indoctrinated)
They are so mad at papaudaupolis they got a fisa warrant to spy on carter page.....makes sense to me
The useful idiot stocked Obama-Hillary echo chamber has gone to defcon 1 in a fruitless attempt to deflect the White Hat Bombers now that they are dead on over the target.
Watch the AA rounds do...nothing. Noise and flash; Bombers Untouched.
DeSantis has directly called for declassification—and release—of all FISC applications and supporting materials involved in the Trump IC hit job. Keep your eye on the prize: If and when that happens, no amount of chaffe and AA will stop the atom bomb from exploding on target. KaBOOM. Game over.
Fun times!!!!!!!
Let me get this straight, Hearsay from a Drunk, lacking any evidence, is enough to get a FISA Court to “Wiretaps” a Presidential candidate and his campaign team. Wow, I didn’t know that.
“We didn’t engage in domestic political surveillance and sedition because of a hooker & pee story that we paid to have some foreigner write, we did it because a former deep state peon who claims to be at the nerve center of Trump’s campaign got bombed in Australia and blabbed Trump’s evil secret to a foreigner, and that made us generate the hooker & pee story.”
It’s amazing. The citizens of this country have been digesting so much BS from the Fedzilla and the MSM propaganda machine for so long, they expect this nonsense to pass the smell test.
Now we see if Trump has the greatness to enforce the law when it’s Bush’s “ruling class” breaking it or is merely another showman keeping the voters amused while freedom and justice melt away.
Is this the “Trump Aide” who never actually ever met Trump?
Yes
Wouldnt that be something! Cant say Id be surprised, the lot of them are traitors through and through.
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 FBIs probe into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, sources told the Times. ....”
So the FBI is told by an Australian spy MONTHS AFTER Wikileaks disclosed DNC files (that we now know because of download speed were given to Wikileaks via a thumb drive download) the a Trump aid wannabe said some one from Russia had dirt on Hillary.
1)If Russia wanted Trump to win why didn’t they either give it ti Trump or just publish the dirt.
2) The FBI would need a FISA warrant to do such snooping, so lets see the FISA warrant and the supporting internal DOJ/FBI documents supporting getting such a warrant
We didnt engage in domestic political surveillance and sedition because of a hooker & pee story that we paid to have some foreigner write, we did it because a former deep state peon who claims to be at the nerve center of Trumps campaign got bombed in Australia and blabbed Trumps evil secret to a foreigner, and that made us generate the hooker & pee story.
Lol.
FISA needs to be shut down until they can explain themselves.
Was the Drunk under Oath at the time?
Meadow muffins.
5.56mm
Linchpin or wingnut?
Fox News (Catherine Herridge) actually reporting on this yawner, this morning. Then, one of their lefty ‘commentators’ was gleefully chiming in, on the “significance” of this ‘news’.
Geez.
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