Posted on 10/30/2017 10:32:16 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
While the Russia-obsessed media self-combust, the biggest takeaway isn’t “Russia collusion,” but the revelation, buried in footnotes, that the FBI has had in its possession “high-level” Trump campaign e-mails since last year — and yet all investigators could get out of them is a false-statement guilty charge against a young, unpaid campaign aide.
From e-mail exchanges among “high-ranking campaign officials” examined by investigators — including Paul Manafort — there apparently has emerged no evidence of collusion or espionage by the campaign.
We can glean this from the just-unsealed indictment of George Papadopoulos, who volunteered to work on the Trump campaign’s foreign policy advisory council, which met just one time.
In the 14-page document, Robert Mueller’s prosecutors maintain that Papadopoulos, a twentysomething think-tank nerd who jumped ship from the Ben Carson campaign, met with individuals posing as Russian officials who promised dirt on Hillary Clinton.
There was nothing illegal about what Papadopoulos did. The only crime alleged in the indictment is that he lied to federal agents when they asked him about the contacts last January.
It is fairly plain from the indictment that the young campaign volunteer was trying to impress higher-ups in the campaign, perhaps with a White House assignment in mind, but was played for a sucker by con artists who approached him masquerading as Russian honchos tied to Vladimir Putin. (The contact portrayed as “Putin’s niece,” for example, turned out to be nothing of the kind.)
The initial Russia offer by Papadopoulos went nowhere, as other members of the foreign policy team rejected the suggestion, according to a Washington Post story published in August (yes, this is old news, new media huffing-and-puffing notwithstanding). But Papadopoulos persisted, e-mailing then-campaign manager Lewandowski in April 2016 that “Putin wants to host the Trump team when the time is right.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
How professionals like the Clintons do it:
They don’t tell an outright lie unless absolutely cornered.
They just say:
“I don’t remember.”
“I don’t recall.”
Or carefully parse their answers:
“Did you have a sexual affair with that woman?”
“I am not having an affair with that woman!” (not while I’m sitting here answering your questions)
Look at the Popadopoulus timeline of being hired while living in London and the timeline for the Fusion GPS garbage dossier prepared by a London based former UK spook.
If Popadopoulus attempts to rat-out the Clinton campaign, you can expect to see a headline like “Indicted Trump Russian Colluder Dead from Suicide - Shoots Self 7 Times”.
Trump is going to pardon all of them. Keep your mouth shut and let your attorney speak.
“And announce it the same day?”
As he was arrested sometime back, for splash effect only, and to give Matthew a sexual experience, as he has been celibate for quite a while.
His job has been to wear a wire for the past few months.
Always remember, when all is said and done, the crime won’t be collusion (which isn’t t really a crime at all), it’ll be lying to investigators. That’s what Mueller is looking for.
That little sob I would like to slap him...
Yep. And we'll know his value if high-level Trump officials start cutting deals with the feds.
There's still a chance that this Papadopolous guy doesn't have s**t on anyone.
Thats funny.
From everything i’ve seen and read, this particular “liddle” George is a serial bull shitter, self-aggrandizer and self-promoter. And nothing more than now being a compliant tool of Muller’s operatives..
Oh wow, a CNN talking head is having fits of the vapors and hyperventilating. There's a shock.
Consider this, from a former FBI special agent:
“Did Papadopoulos wear a wire? Who knows? One thing we do know is that if he did that didn’t start until after he was arrested, 7/27/2017, six months after the FBI interviewed him and even longer after he was no longer part of the campaign. Given that timeline, and the fact that his Russia initiatives were resolutely rejected during his days with the campaign, one wonders who in the Trump administration would feel they had no better use for their time than to chat with this sad sack. Certainly no one of importance. The impression one gets is that this was a rather desperate throw of the dice.”
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2017/10/papadopoulos-whodat-2.php
Don’t know, but a lot of somebody’s BS made it in.
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