Posted on 06/10/2018 8:46:27 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
Report on Russia noted numerous issues but hidden in Issue #27 is an obscure piece of information that former Senator and current Attorney General Jeff Sessions oversaw the small team of five foreign policy experts for the Trump campaign. Included in this small group were Carter Page and George Papadopoulos. According to the House Intel report, the future President was under pressure to put together a foreign policy team in March of 2016. A number of seasoned Republican foreign policy experts were unwilling to jump on the Trump train.
Because of this pressure from the press to show he had experts on his team, candidate Trump named then Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions as the chairman of his National Security Advisory Committee (NSAC). A few weeks later, candidate Trump released the names of five people on his team. The list included Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
The list was announced in March, 2016.
Explains a lot
Are you the poster that came unhinged and lost her cool yesterday, shrilly claiming someone was “stalking” her and calling to the mods for help, or was that the other sower of disunity that beats the same drum you do all the time? Seek help. You guys ruined a thread with the obsessive bickering.
If Sessions was really a "Trojan horse," then he would have been more effective if he DIDN'T recuse himself.
Good catch.
I mistakenly put 2016 instead of 2015 as the date. Clovis joined the Trump campaign in August 2105. Clovis was already interacting with Papadopoulus and Page then. Papadopoulus had been with the Ben Carson campaign, Clovis with Rick Perry.
Sessions endorsed Trump in February 2016.
If Pap was an informant or plant, there was probably spying on Carson.
There are posters who go from thread to thread spreading abusive ad hominem. They are the ones ruining discussions.
There has been research, several posted here, that discovered that neither Papadopoulos nor Page were participants in spying, collusion with Russia or any other attempts to undercut President Trump.
Rather they were both suckers, invited to participate in group meetings intended to make them look guilty of Russian collusion.
An example, though not one that is PC, would be if you were in a strange city and your host there invited you to meet him at a bar for a drink.
Later you see your name and photo as a celebrity patron of a gay bar.
Entrapment of this type is common, even in social events such as a party at the country club. Nodding your head or laughing at the wrong time can brand you as an agreeing participant in slanderous gossip.
And Papadopoulos is only a kid. Mix a kid, raging ambition and a few con men and you have the formula for tragedy.
The story is highly questionable at this point.
MARCH 24, 2016 : (PAPADOPOULOS) Trump Campaign Officials Rebuffed Volunteer’s Attempts To Broker Meeting With Russian Government , dailycaller.com ^ | Chuck Ross Posted on ?8?/?15?/?2017? ?8?:?35?:?31? ?AM by RoosterRedux Top officials on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign rebuffed requests from a lower level volunteer seeking meetings between the then-real estate mogul and Russian government, according to email exchanges leaked to The Washington Post. According to The Post, George Papadopoulos, an energy consultant, sent a half-dozen emails to Trump campaign officials suggesting and requesting meetings between Trump and members of the Russian government, including Vladimir Putin. The campaign emails, which were read to The Post by an unidentified source, reveal a previously-undisclosed connection between a member of the Trump campaign and the Russian government. Papadopoulos indicated in some of the emails that he had contacts close to the Russian government. But the exchanges also run counter to the allegations that the campaign colluded with the Russian government prior to the election. That’s because Papadopoulos, a former research fellow at the conservative Hudson Institute, had his requests for meetings shot down by campaign officials, including policy director Sam Clovis. Papadopoulos sent his first inquiry on March 24, 2016, just three days after he was announced as an adviser on the campaign. In an email to Clovis, which had the subject line, “Meeting with Russian Leadership – Including Putin,” Papadopoulos suggested “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump.” Clovis opposed the idea. “We thought we probably should not go forward with any meeting with the Russians until we have had occasion to sit with our NATO allies,” Clovis responded, according to The Post. Chuck Kubic, a retired rear admiral and campaign foreign policy adviser, also cautioned against the request. “Just want to make sure that no one on the team outruns their headlights and embarrasses the campaign,” he wrote. (Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...Papadopoulos had come over from Carson's campaign where he was probably first installed in case Carson would have fared better in the primaries :
FEBRUARY OR EARLY MARCH 2016 : (LONDON UK : AFTER LEAVING BEN CARSON'S CAMPAIGN, PAPADOPOULOS JOINS LCILP [See JOSEPH MIFSUD] --- See RUSSIAGATE/RUS-SCARE) George Papadopoulos and Joseph Mifsud reportedly both worked at the London Centre of International Law Practice. Joseph Mifsud appears to have joined LCILP around November 2015. Papadopoulos appears to have joined LCILP sometime in late February or early March 2016 after leaving Ben Carson’s campaign. Per reports, Papadopoulos and Mifsud first met on March 14, 2016. The London Centre of International Law and Practice Limited (LCILP) is an odd institution. From their website: LCILP training emphasizes the practical application of international law as a field inseparable from its geopolitical and global economic context. ----- Ties That Bind – Stefan Halper, Joseph Mifsud & Alexander Downer (& Papadopoulos), Ties that bind, 5/10/2018 | Jeff Carlson, CFA Posted on ?5?/?14?/?2018? ?5?:?12?:?59? ?PM by ImJustAnotherOkieAnd nothing further would have happened had Trump Jr stayed away from the guy, too. Halper would never have been involved unless he found another lure.MARCH 6, 2016 : (PAPADOPOLOUS FINDS OUT HE IS TO BE BROUGHT ON BOARD TRUMP CAMPAIGN) 03/06/16 --Former Hillary State Dept. representative George Papadopoulos learns he will join Trump campaign as a low-level foreign policy adviser, DOJ, https://www.justice.gov/file/1007346/download --- VIA --- DIRECTORBLUE.BLOGSPOT TIMELINE
2016 : (PAPADOPOLOUS JOINS TRUMP CAMPAIGN) It is also not entirely clear how Papadopoulos, who is based in London, made his way to the Trump campaign. As head of the campaign policy shop, Clovis made the final decision to hire Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign adviser told TheDC. Clovis, who is now chief scientist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, also made the ultimate decision to bring Carter Page onto the campaign after being introduced by Lewandowski. Page, also an energy consultant, is another central figure in the Trump-Russia probe. He is identified in the Steele dossier as one of the Trump campaign figures who met with Russian government officials in Moscow last July [2017]. Page has denied the allegation and called Steele’s report the “dodgy dossier.” Page was also a recipient of one of Papadopoulos’ email pitches seeking a meeting with Russians, but he told The Post that he did not recall the email. Papadopoulos appears to be of interest to investigators looking into the Russia story. One former campaign official who has been interviewed recently by congressional committees investigating collusion told TheDC that investigators asked numerous questions about Papadopoulos. The emails are likely a focal point for investigators both in Congress and those working under Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Papadopoulos’ possible connection to Millian could also be of interest.--- Why Was This Trump Campaign Adviser Trying To Set Up Meetings With Russians?, Chuck Ross,Reporter 3:43 PM 08/16/2017 http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/16/why-was-this-trump-campaign-adviser-trying-to-set-up-meetings-with-russians/
MARCH 21, 2016 : (TRUMP REVEALS HIS FOREIGN POLICY TEAM) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/21/donald-trump-reveals-foreign-policy-team-in-meeting-with-the-washington-post/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.cce69bcd200b Mar 21, 2016 ____________ For the first time, Trump also listed members of a team chaired by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) that is counseling him on foreign affairs and helping to shape his policies: Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, Walid Phares and Joseph E. Schmitz. 23 posted on ?10?/?30?/?2017? ?12?:?32?:?53? ?PM by maggief
MARCH 15, 2016 : (PAPADOPOLOUS PESTERS TRIES 6 TIMES TO ARRANGE MEETINGS BETWEEN TRUMP CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS AND RUSSIANS) 03/15/16 -- Between this date and 9/15/16, Papadopoulos tries 6 times to arrange meetings between Trump campaign and Russians, all are rejected, ABC http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-russian-businessman-source-key-trump-dossier-claims/story?id=45019603 --- VIA --- DIRECTORBLUE.BLOGSPOT TIMELINE
MARCH 31, 2016 : (TRUMP IS FORMALLY INTRODUCED TO HIS FOREIGN POLICY TEAM; PAPADOPOULOS [See SERGEI MILLIAN] TRIES AGAIN TO SUGGEST A MEETING WITH RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP AND IS SHUT DOWN BY SESSIONS- AT THIS POINT THE TEAM DECIDES NOT TO REVISIT THE IDEA IN THEIR MEETINGS- NEVERTHELESS, PAPADOPOULOS WOULD CONTINUE TRYING THROUGH EMAIL - 5 MORE TIMES) Trump announced Papadopoulos and four others as his foreign policy team on March 21, 2016. Just three days later [March 24], Papadopoulos made his first attempt at setting up a meeting between Trump and Russian government officials. As The Washington Post reported on Monday, Papadopoulos emailed Trump campaign officials on March 24, suggesting “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss US-Russia ties under President Trump.” “Meeting with Russian Leadership — Including Putin,” was the subject line of the email. Sam Clovis, the campaign’s chief policy adviser, shot down the idea. “We thought we probably should not go forward with any meeting with the Russians until we have had occasion to sit with our NATO allies,” he told Papadopoulos. Despite that pushback, Papadopoulos revisited the proposition in the formal foreign policy team meeting, which was held at the Old Post Office Pavilion in Washington, D.C. Sessions opened the gathering by formally introducing Trump to his new foreign policy team [on March 31?]. The real estate mogul said a few words and then went around the table to ask advisers for their thoughts and suggestions. “When it got to George, he said something about meeting with Russians,” one attendee told TheDC. “It was kind of strange, frankly, because he’s basically a young kid and he’s raising this issue. It just came and went and there was really nothing there.” The attendee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, recalled that Sessions dismissed Papadopoulos’ suggestion. “Nope, not going there,” was what the attendee vaguely remembered Sessions saying. A second attendee, who also spoke on the condition of anonymity, told TheDC that Papadopoulos was “definitely shut down” by Sessions. The adviser also said that attendees agreed in the meeting not to revisit Papadopoulos’ suggestion. ...After the March 24 email and March 31 meeting, Papadopoulos would send at least five more emails pressing campaign officials to meet with Russian officials, including Putin. But Clovis, the chief policy adviser, and Paul Manafort, the campaign’s chairman, would again dismiss the proposals. Not only does it appear that Papadopoulos’ pitches were unsolicited by the Trump campaign, it may also be the case that in at least one instance, he first contacted Russians, hoping they would meet with Trump. Ivan Timofeev, the chairman of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), a government-controlled diplomacy think tank, claimed earlier this week that Papadopoulos contacted him last spring inquiring about Trump or members of the campaign traveling to Moscow for a meeting. Timofeev posted the claim on RIAC’s website in response to The Post article. Timofeev said he asked Papadopoulos for an official letter of inquiry from the campaign as proof that the request to meet was serious. He said that Papadopoulos never provided such assurances. ---- Trump Adviser Proposed Meeting With Russians During Campaign, But Was Shot Down By Sessions, BY Chuck Ross, Reporter, The Daily Caller, 11:36 AM 08/17/2017
Very misleading headline.
In the body of the article, they say: “The Daily Caller reported that both Carter Page and George Papadopoulos were hired by Sam Clovis, the Trump campaign’s co-chairman”.
The fact that Jeff Sessions was named as the chairman of the National Security Advisory Committee, for which they were hired, is his only connection to those guys - no prior relationship.
Research this.
Sessions recused himself from the biggest scandal in American History.
And because of that he is on the sidelines. AWOL.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Not true. Sessions takes himself to the side, selects Rosenstein, then the two of them recommend Comey be fired. Rosenstein even documents all the reasons in a letter. Then when the president does exactly what they recommend, Comey and Rosenstein arrange for Mueller's investigation. In the meantime, Sessions remains a roadblock to cleaning out the whole mess. Sessions could not have been more effective in tying the president's hands regarding the Justice Department that supposedly reports to Trump in any other way except how it all played out.
If you sincerely believe that he would have been more effective if he didn't recuse himself, explain how.
DJT will go down in history as the greatest president ever in spite of his backstabbing AG.
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Yup. He’s a fighter and an alpha male. He will come through.
You’d have to wake the traitor up first.
148 more days until midterm elections.
With a strong patriot result, I think Sessions will be on the receiving end of a good swift kick out the door....what’s that expression DJT uses? Oh yes....”so fast it will make your head spin”.
If his goal was to undermine Trump, then he would have maintained more control over the process if he had stayed involved. Because he recused himself, we now have a situation where Mueller is making himself look like a complete fool every time one of the cases he prosecutes has a court hearing.
I can’t wait for the mid-terms to be over and won by Trump (not republicans as they seem to want to lose, but then losers usually do want to lose.), once our president gets past the mid-terms I think we will see a lot of dead wood get the boot.
Trump is still asleep about Sessions. Nobody in jail yet and with all the information about the corruption.
Your reply has nothing to verify this story
Totally off topic
You can always report me to the off topic MOD if it makes u feel better.
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