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My, my how far former Trump “Foreign Policy Advisor” George Papadopoulos has fallen … getting caught while doing Trump’s shady business — will get you thrown under the Trump Bus, faster than a Trump Tweet-storm on a Tuesday …
from www.politico.eu — today, Tuesday
President Donald Trump and his allies fought back Tuesday against special counsel Robert Mueller’s wave of indictments against former campaign aides, dismissing an ex-foreign policy adviser who cut a plea deal with prosecutors as a “liar” and nothing more than the “coffee boy.”
Let’s turn the Way-Back Machine back a few jumps shall we — for those with “forgetful memories” on the Trump Train ...
by Alan Rappeport, NYTimes — March 22, 2016
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While most presidential campaigns have been offering lists of their high-profile advisers, Mr. Trump had repeatedly declined to reveal his, offering only that he developed his views about world affairs from listening to experts on television, and that he liked to come up with his own ideas.
That changed on Monday when, in an interview with The Washington Post editorial board, he shared the names of five advisers who signed up to be on his team: Joseph E. Schmitz, Gen. Keith Kellogg, Carter Page, George Papadopoulos and Walid Phares.
And from the ‘Horse’s Mouth’, himself … about how “excellent“ Papadopoulos was …
Washington Post — March 21, 2016
FREDERICK RYAN JR., WASHINGTON POST PUBLISHER: Mr. Trump, welcome to the Washington Post. Thank you for making time to meet with our editorial board.
DONALD TRUMP: New building. Yes this is very nice. Good luck with it.
RYAN: Thank you… We’ve heard you’re going to be announcing your foreign policy team shortly… Any you can share with us?
TRUMP: Well, I hadn’t thought of doing it, but if you want I can give you some of the names… Walid Phares, who you probably know, PhD, adviser to the House of Representatives caucus, and counter-terrorism expert; Carter Page, PhD; George Papadopoulos, he’s an energy and oil consultant, excellent guy; the Honorable Joe Schmitz, [former] inspector general at the Department of Defense; [retired] Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg; and I have quite a few more. But that’s a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we do, but that’s a representative group.
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Hmmm, note the date of that Trump disclosure. What was his most excellent Foreign Advisor doing that week, that put him on The Donald’s “best pals” List?
Fast-forward to the present day … from the NYTimes — Oct 30, 2017
A footnote in Mr. Papadopoulos’s plea agreement includes a detail that is particularly damning [...]
In March 2016, George Papadopoulos sent an email to seven campaign officials, including Mr. Manafort and the campaign manager at the time, Corey Lewandowski, saying that Russian leadership wanted to meet with the Trump team.
Such a Russian meeting did take place a few months later, with Trump Jr and ‘co-conspirators’ Manafort and Kushner, in dutiful attendance.
Hmmm … that’s some DAMN strong “Coffee” … eh?
And now it’s evidence in the ongoing Trump-Russia Investigation.