I want to live, that is why I am a conservative.
Posted on 09/07/2018 9:16:14 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Friday raised the prospect that the London-based professor who told former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos that Russia had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton may be dead.
DNC lawyers wrote in court filings Friday that Joseph Mifsud, who spoke to Papadopoulos during the 2016 presidential election, "is missing and may be deceased," Bloomberg News reported. The lawyers did not elaborate.
The DNC stood by its claim in a statement to The Hill on Friday. The committee indicated that an investigator had been used to find Mifsud, who had disappeared for months, and was told the Maltese professor may be dead.
“The DNC's counsel has attempted to serve Mifsud for months and has been unable to locate or contact him. In addition, public reports have said he has disappeared and hasn't been seen for months," DNC spokeswoman Adrienne Watson said.
Mifsud was reportedly teaching at a private university in Rome before he vanished late last year, shortly after his name emerged as a key figure in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The professor had reportedly not been in contact with prosecutors in Italy seeking to question him over allegations of financial wrongdoing and his fiancé told Business Insider earlier this year that she could not reach him.
The DNC's revelation came in court filings Friday in their lawsuit against Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks for interfering in the 2016 presidential election. According to Bloomberg, the DNC said it believed all of the defendants in the case had been served, with the exception of Mifsud.
A hearing in that lawsuit is scheduled for next week in federal court in New York.
Papadopoulos was sentenced in a separate legal case Friday to two weeks in prison for lying to FBI investigators about his contacts with Mifsud during the campaign, the first sentence for a former campaign aide as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election interference.
Mifsud was reportedly known to have high-level contacts in the Russian government, including with Sergei Lavrov, Russia's current foreign minister. During the campaign Papadopoulos told the president and now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that Russia was interested in setting up a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Sessions testified last year that he rejected Papadopoulos's suggestion of a meeting, though the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser alleged in a CNN interview Friday that Sessions was "enthusiastic" about such a meeting.
Sessions "was actually enthusiastic about a meeting between the candidate and President Putin," Papadopoulos told CNN, adding that Trump "gave me a sort of a nod" but "wasn't committed either way" to the idea.
Trump officials have long downplayed Papadopoulos's role within the campaign in public statements, while President Trump has long denied any collusion with Russia during the election.
Between the 'Deep State' and other players will we ever know 'The Truth'?
Red scarf, or committed suicide by shooting themselves twice in the back of the head?
Dead...
How convenient for the Democrats, the Clinton’s, and Fusion/Podesta.
Listen to Dan Bongino on this. Mifsud was a US and or Western intel operative. Maybe UK intel. He was not a Russian operative as Mueller laid out today in a total lie. Mifsud was used to frame Pappa-D.....along with Stefan Halper.
“Halper’s relationship with Carter Page helped the FBI obtain a FISA warrant in mid-October”
Halper framed Carter Page and got those FISA warrants rolling along. If you don’t know what the two hop rule is then don’t even bother here....you are lost in the woods.
DNC need to rely on MI6 and BBC.
And a lovely amount of money is being deposited each month by a Democrat donor into a Singapore bank account.
This guy went to ground. He’ll show up in a couple years saying he was scared of Trump and his “Russian connections” so he split.
No, you can’t. Doesn’t this guy have family? Surely they would know if he died. Friends?
The DNC and Hillary put out a contract on him, then hired a private investigator to make sure he was no longer alive.
They then present this latter finding as a “public service message” to the chump they set up.
DC police now saying Mifsud was the victim of a botched robbery. Also, that no valuables were taken.
I want to live, that is why I am a conservative.
Maybe he went missing to avoid becoming deceased.
I wonder if it worked?
Well ain’t THAT a coinkydink?
BANANA REPUBLIC.
Mueller?? Mueller??? Mueller???
The Clinton Foundation is international.
I think this is actually guy number three that I’d put on the ‘dead’ listing....that had some kind of DNC relationship and simply disappeared in Europe.
You could write this up as some James Bond mini-thriller and no one would believe it. It’s possible that all three are sitting on some isle in Greece and just shaking their heads over how screwed up this mess became.
He had been very briefly distraught.
The Hill is the new National Enquirer. Is anything in this article true?
reminder, even tho Politico somehow managed to frame this as potentially proof of Russian interference in the 2016 election!
12 Nov 2017: Politico: Boris Johnson pictured with ‘London professor’ from FBI Russia probe
By David M. Herszenhorn
A photograph has emerged of British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson with the “London professor” whose alleged high-level Kremlin contacts have led to him featuring in the FBI’s investigation into links between Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia...
The picture, which was posted on Facebook, shows Johnson, wine glass in hand, standing with Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese academic and a businessman, Prasenjit Kumar Singh...
The image was originally posted by Singh, who also included other photos of the event, a Conservative Party fund-raiser held in Reading, outside London, on October 19 (2017) and was discovered by Gavin Sheridan, a freelance journalist...
The Foreign Office, responding to questions about potential ties between Mifsud and Johnson, as well as other Foreign Office officials, had previously said that Johnson had no recollection of ever meeting Mifsud...
Sheridan wrote on Twitter that he had initially found a Facebook friend connection between Polonskaya and Mifsud last month, and made an archived copy of Polonskaya’s page, which has since been altered.
https://www.politico.eu/article/boris-johnson-pictured-with-london-professor-from-fbi-russia-probe/amp/
The DNC is probably HIDING him somewhere....maybe Lolita Island?? They are positing that he is dead so no one looks for him! IF he is Dead, HOW does the DNC KNOW???
Another notch on her backbrace...
some may remember this twitter thread -
https://twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/976943588394323973?s=19
shortly afterwards, Assange was cut off from the internet.
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