Why George Papadopoulos' guilty plea is a much bigger problem for Trump than the Manafort indictment

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I don’t remember much about that meeting,” Trump tells press in south lawn when asked about George Papadopoulos.

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Jennifer Jacobs

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Wait a minute...I thought he had the world's greatest memory.

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Just now, Jacque67 said:

Wait a minute...I thought he had the world's greatest memory.

 

Not only the greatest, but also the best ever! LOL..

 

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6 minutes ago, CaliCat said:

 

Not only the greatest, but also the best ever! LOL..

 

Best SELECTIVE memory...but such a word is too big for Donnie. Be easy on the guy!

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The professor/GRU cut out...

https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertonardelli/the-professor-identified-in-the-trump-russia-probe-always

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Legal experts said the brief appearance was noteworthy in a couple of respects.

First, Papadopoulos had no defense attorney. Typically, a public defender will stand in in such situations at least temporarily.

"That's odd," former federal prosecutor Jeffrey Cramer said. "You would not normally have a defendant appearing before the court and not be represented. The court wasn't concerned with it but that was strange."

Second, Papadopoulos' arrest seems to have been the product of some haste. Indeed, when he was arrested at Dulles Airport July 27 after coming off a flight from Munich, prosecutors had no warrant for him and no indictment or criminal complaint. The complaint would be filed the following morning and approved by Howell in Washington.

And when prosecutors filed the complaint the next day they got a verbal order from Howell to seal it, but followed up with a written request that they could take to the magistrate in Alexandria, where they showed up almost an hour later than she was expecting.

All of it suggests something of a scramble, rather than a carefully-prepared plan to take Papadopolous into custody.

A defense lawyer for Papadopoulos, Thomas Breen, did not respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for Mueller's office declined to comment.

Whatever transpired in the 24 hours after Papadopoulos landed at Dulles, it doesn't seem to have impaired his cooperation with Mueller's team.

At another sealed hearing in Washington in October, he entered a guilty plea to the false statement charge, while prosecutors dropped the more serious obstruction count.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/08/secret-hearing-mueller-trump-probe-244653

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Update coming, people are saying...

https://www.lawfareblog.com/seven-theories-case-what-do-we-really-know-about-laffaire-russe-and-what-could-it-all-mean

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Dismissed by the White House as a "low-level volunteer", more about the true status of adviser George Papadopoulos seems to emerge by the day.

The Trump campaign foreign policy aide's contacts with Russians have already got him in trouble. He has admitted lying to the FBI about them.

But it is now revealed he also met a British Foreign Office official, two months before the US presidential election, for a "working level" meeting.

"As you would expect in the run up to an election we seek to build links with figures in both the Democratic and Republican presidential campaigns," a Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokeswoman told the BBC, confirming the meeting. "This type of outreach is normal diplomatic business."

While such meetings may be routine diplomacy, the fact that Papadopoulos was presenting himself to the government of one of the US's closest allies as a representative of the Trump campaign undercuts the White House's recent assertion that Papadopoulos was a campaign volunteer of little importance.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41892373

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The campaign aide who suggested that President Trump journey to Russia to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the campaign was in regular contact with now-White House aide Stephen Miller, The New York Times reported Friday.

George Papadopoulos was in regular contact with Miller during the spring of 2016, a period during which Papadopoulos also helped edit a major foreign policy speech Trump delivered, according to the Times.

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http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359891-nyt-papadopoulos-was-in-regular-contact-with-stephen-miller

 

stephen miller was interviewed just b4 trump's vacation, Hicks up next week.

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2 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/359891-nyt-papadopoulos-was-in-regular-contact-with-stephen-miller

 

stephen miller was interviewed just b4 trump's vacation, Hicks up next week.

Stephen? I vaguely remember meeting him once or twice, Hope? A lower level functionary.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/sessions-i-do-now-recall-papadopoulos-meeting

 

sessions is either a habitual liar or suffers from memory loss/dementia.

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28 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sessions-i-do-now-recall-papadopoulos-meeting

 

sessions is either a habitual liar or suffers from memory loss/dementia.

 

He's just a liar. Everything seems to indicated he perjured himself before Congress.

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31 minutes ago, Jacque67 said:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/sessions-i-do-now-recall-papadopoulos-meeting

 

sessions is either a habitual liar or suffers from memory loss/dementia.

 

1 minute ago, CaliCat said:

 

He's just a liar. Everything seems to indicated he perjured himself before Congress.

He barely remembers meeting with Papadopoulos until the photo is presented, does not remember even talking about Russia, but specifically remembers shooting down a trip to Russia by DJT. From very very vague to super specific.