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This is old news, the foreign policy team was reported a long time ago. Most of the members of the foreign policy team that was formed - from Sessions to an Admiral on the team- spotted Papadopolous's obsession with getting Trump officials to make contacts with Russia immediately and they nixed the guy's suggestions on the spot, with the Admiral [Kubric] stating it was inappropriate to make contact until such a time as they had to discuss matters with NATO allies:

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 ImJustAnotherOkie
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

And 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.