He got caught in lies in a sting? - Mifsud was a Western asset?
Deeper questions are: If he was an asset, the sting was perpetrated on a rival political campaign based on what? What was the probable cause? They can’t even say it was the Steele Dossier, because didn’t this meeting occur even before the dossier BS was concocted?
What if Papa-D withdrew his plea and demanded discovery?...
That precise scenario is very well laid out in Dan bongino latest podcast which you can view on YouTube, and speed up to cut the listening time.
It is kind of a matter of what you are willing to believe, I suppose. Bongino lays out the case that mifsud, who has been portrayed as potentially a Russian asset, is actually a US asset. That is a big smelly deal, a crucial distinction. It appears the whole “Got dirt on Hillary” story was seeded By mifsud, who has apparently disappeared off the face of the Earth. Did he just make that story up, or was he induced, shall we say, by Brennan.
I of course have no special powers to tell anyone what to believe or not to believe. I believe that the evidence supporting the notion that the dossier and the efforts to discredit Trump we’re fed to these lower-level players, Papadopoulos and Paige, with the purpose of getting them to talk about them. Both of these guys had prior connections to the CIA and it was undoubtedly easy for CIA leadership to obtain surveillance warrants against them, which include the “hop” Theory which allows surveillance of whom they talk to and whomever they talked to on the same ticket.
So I can’t sit here and say this is what happened, I can only weigh evidence which largely anecdotal and try to discern the coherence of the overall story. I find nothing whatsoever difficult to believe about the top people at the FBI getting the idea that it would be good to sabotage Trump. Perhaps I’m biased. But the evidence is stacking up in quite the smelly pile.