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DNC: Papadopoulos's UK contact may be dead
The Hill ^ | 09/07/18 | John Bowden

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
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41 posted on 09/07/2018 11:16:53 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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To: yesthatjallen; null and void

Curiouser and curiouser


42 posted on 09/07/2018 11:23:22 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: yesthatjallen
Here's some interesting background info on Mifsud and his pregnant girlfriend.

From last February, so the pregnancy's over and the young mother must be still on the search for her intended husband.

The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe

43 posted on 09/07/2018 11:49:38 PM PDT by henbane
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To: dennisw

His possible death has been speculated for months, maybe a half year.

It’s not a big stretch to speculate somebody is dead when they have disappeared for such a long time.


44 posted on 09/07/2018 11:54:23 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: henbane
Sorry!

Here's the link.

The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe

45 posted on 09/07/2018 11:58:06 PM PDT by henbane
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To: yesthatjallen

And the DNC is headed by. — DRUM ROLL — Comrade Che Lopen and Ayatollah Ellison.

Somebody has got to film the judge when they laugh this lawsuit not only out of the court but out of the US, and then fines the DNC for filling frivolous lawsuits.

The Democrats have taken insanity to new depths and heights. Textbook publishers will have to write new books on “The New Insanity” with the pictures of Pelosi, Schumer, Warren, Blumenthal, Coons, Whitehouse, Murray’s/Murphys, and Maxine Waters on the cover.

The DNC today is like a marriage between Jack The Ripper, Lizzie Borden, Typhoid Marry, and Charles Manson all rolled into one being.

Arthur C. Clarke, Ralph Ellison, Andre Norton and Ray Bradbury are saying collectively, “Why didn’t we think of writing the “Dossier Conspiracy”? It would have been a great financial success and movie.

Rod Serling, never in his wildest imagination in creating “The Twilight Zone” and “Nigh Gallery”, could have come up with something like this, and “Outer Limits” would only be the warmup act for “The Deep State and DNC Show”.

The “Truth” is scarier than fiction when it comes to the Democrats because they make “fiction” come to life, like Frankenstein. “IT’S ALIVE”!!!


46 posted on 09/07/2018 11:58:13 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: yesthatjallen

Mifsud is from Malta...

Recall the odd vacation location for Supreme Court Justice Roberts around the time of the Obamacare debacle was Malta.


47 posted on 09/08/2018 12:02:32 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: yesthatjallen

Get ANOTHER Arkanicide?


48 posted on 09/08/2018 12:06:05 AM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: yesthatjallen

The DNC operatives were floating this lead filled balloon several months ago with the hint that the Trump Organization had had him offed to prevent him telling everything he knew. . . but that makes no sense.

As a matter of fact none of this makes any logical sense since the narrative they want people to believe is that Donald Trump has been Putin’s puppet for years and if that’s the case there would be zero reason for a minor campaign nobody to be inveigled into being told about “dirt” the Russians had on Hillary by some obscure Maltese Professor, because said “Puppet” Trump would have already had everything “dirty” on Hillary already provided to him by his handlers and the puppet master Putin. There’d be no necessity for such circumlocutions. All the “puppet” would need to do would be to pick up the secret secure phone and say “Hey, Putin, baby, what more do I need to win this thing?” and it would be forthcoming. No need for clandestine meetings between flunkies.

But of course logic has never been there strong point. . . or sense.


49 posted on 09/08/2018 12:49:57 AM PDT by Swordmaker (My pistol self-identifies as an iPad, so you must accept it in gun-free zones, you hoplaphobe bigot!)
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To: JustaTech

Hiding? Deceased? Fictitious???

They all work for the story Party D wants to tell.


50 posted on 09/08/2018 12:50:10 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The DNC sent an investigator. We used to call such people “hit men.”


51 posted on 09/08/2018 1:50:08 AM PDT by arthurus (|ıI|)
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To: BradyLS

If they EVER brought this CRAP before a jury 90% of the general public would NEVER understand what the HELL was going on their heads would be SPINNING!!!!


52 posted on 09/08/2018 2:24:50 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Let’s just say that no one is looking hard for Joseph Mifsud. He is a western Intel asset operative. Likely UK. UK operatives are all over this fake Trump-Russian collusion. UK operatives have been colluding with Americans like Fusion GPS to frame Trump and some of those who work for him like Papa-D and Carter Page

https://www.conservativereview.com/news/stefan-halper-is-only-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-in-obama-spy-scandal/


53 posted on 09/08/2018 4:10:11 AM PDT by dennisw
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To: yesthatjallen

The Hague Service Convention signatories should be assisting with this. Where’s Mifsud hiding out, the Vatican? If Mifsud is hiding in the EU, the EU has even more splainin’ to do...


54 posted on 09/08/2018 4:34:26 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

Is the EU violating the Hague Service Convention?

If so, why....?


55 posted on 09/08/2018 4:35:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

The EU is involved in Spygate up to its bloody collective armpits.


56 posted on 09/08/2018 4:36:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: dennisw
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.

Rather than being a complete Richard Head and telling other FReepers not to bother, I've decided to explain what the "two hop" rule is in this instance.

The 702 system, which was never designed to spy on Americans, but rather to safeguard U.S. national security, had become a powerful spying tool in the hands of the government.

Problems with the FISA system received nationwide attention in February after a declassified House intelligence committee memo revealed that the FBI and the Department of Justice had obtained a FISA warrant on Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, using information paid for by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

The initial warrant, and its three subsequent renewals could have been used to spy on anyone who was in contact with Page, including members of the Trump campaign. The NSA is allowed to analyze communications “two hops” from its original target. Anyone in direct communication with Page is one hop away, and anyone in communication with those talking to Page is two hops away.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/fisa-abuse-widespread-under-obama-administration-2_2465325.html

57 posted on 09/08/2018 5:05:22 AM PDT by Roccus (When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
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To: yesthatjallen
The author is trying to make it look like a meeting between candidate Trump and the Russians is nefarious.

candidate Soetoro met with all kinds of World leaders in 2008 and the msm was thrilled.

59 posted on 09/08/2018 5:24:53 AM PDT by Eagles6
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To: yesthatjallen

‘Had dirt on hillary clinton’

‘Is dead’

Same story, different day

This is news to the DNC???


60 posted on 09/08/2018 5:42:55 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
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