Posted on 06/23/2018 12:13:18 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Robert Mueller's office of the special counsel has asked a judge for a September 7 sentencing hearing for former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
Politico reports that Mueller's attorneys asked U.S. District Court Judge Randy Moss to set Papadopoulos’ sentencing for Sept. 7 or a date in October if the judge cannot grant the first date.
Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign and last year plead guilty of lying to FBI agents about his contacts with pro-Russian sources during the 2016 election. He is one of three Trump associates, the others being businessman Rick Gates and former national security adviser Gen. Michael Flynn, to plead guilty to making false statements.
The former Trump campaign aide was arrested last July and has been out on bond since pleading guilty.
President Trump sought to distance himself from the aide after he pleaded guilty, describing Papadopoulos as a low-level volunteer with few real responsibilities. Papadopoulos and his fiancee have pushed back on that assertion.
"Few people knew the young, low level volunteer named George, who has already proven to be a liar. Check the DEMS!" Trump tweeted in October.
The New York Times reported last year that Papadopoulos sparked the Russia investigation that would eventually be headed by Mueller after he drunkenly bragged to an Australian diplomat that the Russians had damaging information on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton before the 2016 hack of the Democratic National Committee's emails became publicly known.
Australian government officials then tipped off the FBI to the aide's remarks, which later evolved into the now year-long special counsel probe that has dominated headlines during Trump's presidency.
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Should be vacated. Immediately.
This guy was a nothing. Trump didn’t even know he existed.
Papadopoulos was a nothing. He was used by FBI and their mole to establish appearance of Russian influence in the campaign.
Unequal application of justice.
Mueller needs his a## handed to him, we are to nice
He was warned that the FBI interview was voluntary.
He should have ended it then.
There’s absolutely nothing in there to indicate that Trump or anybody on the campaign did anything wrong, just a guy who panicked while being questioned by the FBI.
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