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It’s pretty curious. When  Devin Nunes’ House GOP had prematurely shut down the Russia probe back in February pronouncing ‘no collusion’ they hadn’t even spoken to George Papadopoulos whose boasting that the Russians had incriminating emails on Clinton was at the heart of what started the FBI investigation into Russia in the first place

Claiming there was ‘no collusion’ without speaking to Papadopoulos was kind of like saying Nicole Goldman Simpson died of natural causes without even speaking to OJ. However, since Papadopoulous has been sentenced-a very mild 14 day sentence-he’s been talking a very big game on Twitter that he was set up by the Deep State-that Mifsud was a M16 agent, that Stefan Halper improperly spied on him, etc.

Then he was making heavy weather of the fact he told the FBI there was ‘no collusion.’ So what?

This is like the GOP ran the investigation-simply take blanket denials from Trump’s co-conspirators at face value with no attempt at corroborating wether the denials were the truth or not. Papadopoulos was found guilty of perjury, precisely on the question of Mifsud.

He’s also been all over the place on Mifsud. He’d been claiming noisily for weeks that Mifsud was a British M16 agent. He even cited Stephen Roh who was Mifsud’s lawyer and claims in his own book that Papadoloulos was the M16 agent.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1054378308618600448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1054378308618600448&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fevilsax.pressbooks.com%2Fwp%2Fwp-admin%2Fpost.php%3Fpost%3D3927%26action%3Dedit

Now he’s claiming fantastically that it was all Peter Strozk’s doing-that Mifsud was taking Strozk’s orders.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1055932914817482755

UPDATE: Apparently he’s since deleted the tweets-I wonder why!

This morning he’s comparing himself to Martin Luther King, Jr and not for the first time.

So NOW the GOP House wants to talk to him as they did this week. What has changed? Well Papdopoulos apparently has wealthy GOP lawyers defending him now.

Before his testimony this week he’d been counseled to stay clear of the conspiracy theories about the Deep State and double agents.

However, despite how confidently he’s talking on Twitter now, Goodlatte and Jordan, and friends still made the hearings private.

And from the sound of it Papadopoulos may have perjured himself-again.

Now he’s talking about walking away from his plea agreement with Mueller, something very difficult to do.

UPDATE:  Since testifying before Congress he’s doubling down.

https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1057148972635049984

UPDATE 2.0: Apparently he had 2nd thoughts and has now deleted this tweet as well.

In his interview with Fix News he hints that there’s some other new bombshell he learned yesterday-at the hearing evidently?-that is making him ‘even more seriously’ considering vacating his plea deal.

Even the Fix Fox News host points out to him that he was effectively only spending a day in prison-so why make all this heavy weather? He claims melodramatically that this is to save future Americans from this terrible ordeal-right that’s the biggest problem the average American faces today-many Americans are high ranking ‘coffee boys’ with the Trump Presidential campaign.

Beyond that the Fix News host pretty much does what is called ‘leading the witness’-note that Fix News interviews are not real journalistic interviews but theatrical performances planned days in advance-and asks/tells Papadopoulos ‘You were doing all this great work getting energy deals for Israel and the Obama Administration didn’t like that right?’

As farfetched as this Trumpian Deep State conspiracy theory is, it gets even better as the Coffee Boy who colluded coordinated and conspired with Russia claims that the British Deep State also wanted to set him up after he wrote a furious editorial reading David Cameron the riot act for having the temerity to criticize Trump. Well, at least he didn’t send him a pipe bomb. Sure, that’s the genesis of Russia collusion-a negative editorial about David Cameron.

Yet despite all the chutzpah Papadoupoulos wants immunity before testifying before the Senate. 

In other words, he’s still not telling the truth. And the GOP Senate Intel Committee is not a total joke like the House GOP counterpart.

UPDATE: Though it has kept everything buried behind closed doors and Richard Burr has been acting like the so-called ‘President’s’ defense attorney in public statements.

Indeed, it’s clear that Mueller is interested in instances of perjury before Congress-but, as we saw in (Chapter W) the House GOP has refused to make transcripts available to him.

“It was barely a year ago that Papadopoulos and his wife, Simona Mangiante, appeared ready to turn on Trump and his campaign. After Papadopoulos pleaded guilty, the president was quick to describe him as a “coffee boy” who played no meaningful foreign-policy role during the election—a claim at which Mangiante bristled, and which she appeared prepared to challenge, with proof. “I’ve seen the emails,” Mangiante told me earlier this year, referring to Papadopoulos’s communications during the election with high-level members of the Trump campaign. She told ABC last year that Papadopoulos had communicated with Steve Bannon, who chaired the campaign before becoming the White House chief strategist, and Michael Flynn, a top campaign surrogate whom Trump later appointed national-security adviser. “It’s very naive to dismiss somebody like that, as a ‘coffee boy,’ when you have evidence,” Mangiante said. “They’re just undermining all of George’s efforts.” At the time, Mangiante appeared defiant and unnerved by the president’s attempts to marginalize Papadopoulos’s role. The FBI, meanwhile, had been “fair” to her, she said, and she’d been “happy” to speak to the bureau.

A very interesting question is what has led Ms. Mangiante-Papadopoulos to so change her tune? There is wide suspicion she may be a foreign agent-Russian?-even by George’s own family.

Earlier this week it emerged that someone in the ‘Coffee Boy’s’ orbit has reported Mangiante to ICE.

Maybe those close to Papadopoulos are trying to protect him-ie, she’s the one giving him the not so great advice to get out of a plea deal that calls for him to serve only 14 days.

Beyond what advice she could be giving him you wonder if someone in Trumpland has gotten to him-apparently he has some rich GOP lawyers representing him now. The lawyer he had when he was cooperating with Mueller doesn’t hew to this wild Trumpian conspiracies.

Since Papadopoulos’-very short 14 day sentence was announced-he’s been on Twitter fomenting the same Deep State conspiracy theories his wife has been propounding.

“Gradually, however, Mangiante’s tone began to change. In interviews with Fox News and the right-wing Daily Caller, Mangiante described Papadopoulos as a “victim” and asked Trump to consider pardoning him because he had been treated so unfairly by the FBI. She began to raise questions about whether Papadopoulos was the target of a “setup” by investigators, and disclosed what she described as “suspicious” overtures by foreign nationals to Papadopoulos during the campaign, characterizing them as “among a series of attempts to entrap George.” (It is not totally clear what prompted the newly hostile posture toward the FBI’s investigation. But it began shortly after Mueller’s team indicated in court filings that it was ready to move ahead with Papadopoulos’s sentencing—a sign that it no longer needed Papadopoulos’s cooperation in the case.)

“After Papadopoulos was sentenced in early September, he was freer to speak for himself. Unsurprisingly, he sounded a lot like Mangiante. After telling a judge that he “made a terrible mistake” in not being forthcoming with the FBI, Papadopoulos took to Twitter, where he has maintained that Mifsud—a Maltese professor whose interactions with Papadopoulos in April 2016 purportedly triggered the FBI’s Russia investigation—was actually a deep-state plant working for Western intelligence agencies hoping to entrap the Trump campaign. (Papadopoulos’s former lawyer, Thomas Breen, told reporters last month that he believed that Mifsud was working for the Russians. Papadopoulos, who considered taking back his guilty plea over the summer but decided against it, has since hired new attorneys.) Mifsud, meanwhile, apparently believes that Papadopoulos set him up. In a book co-written by Stephan Roh, a German multimillionaire with ties to Russia who now calls himself Mifsud’s lawyer, Mifsud was quoted as calling Papadopoulos an “agent provocateur.”

One reason Papadopoulos’ wife garners so much suspicion is the ‘coincidence’ that she knew and worked with Mifsud prior to meeting George. That’s quite a conicidence-and as Nance’s Law says coincidences take a lot of planning. 

“Throughout all of this, Mangiante, who says she worked for Mifsud at the London Centre of International Law Practice in 2016, has had to answer for discrepancies in her résumé and comments she has made about her real age. The oddities have sowed more doubt about Mangiante’s background, which has been scrutinized not only by journalists but also by Mueller’s investigators. Earlier this month, a law firm Mangiante claimed to work for as an associate from September 2007 to November 2008, Mayer Brown, issued a statement saying it had no record of her employment. The firm maintained that these records don’t exist, but noted later that it was possible she had worked there as an unpaid intern for four months in 2007. After battling the law firm to correct the statement, Mangiante appeared to acquiesce, quietly changing the dates and description of that employment on her LinkedIn page to match the details issued by the firm. Amid that controversy, Mangiante showed ABC News a photo of her Italian passport to prove her identity. But she later admitted to altering the passport photo and date of birth.

Altering a passport is itself a crime, of course.

Papadopoulos, for his part, believes he landed on the FBI’s radar because of his“energy business ties to Cyprus and Israel that threatened British interests”—not because he had any ties to Russia. “Do you really think someone like me who had no connection at all to Russia would just randomly run into the one guy on the planet who apparently had the keys to the kingdom regarding a massive conspiracy?” he asked me in a private message earlier this month. But it wasn’t just one chance encounter; according to the charging documents that Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to, he met Mifsud three times from March to April. They continued to email through April, with Papadopoulos expressing consistent interest in a Trump-Russia relationship that Mifsud said he could facilitate. And on April 26, over breakfast in London, Mifsud told Papadopoulos that he had just returned from a trip to Moscow where he had learned from high-level Russian-government officials that Moscow had “dirt” on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.”

“Despite keeping the campaign apprised of his conversations with Mifsud and efforts to set up a Trump-Putin meeting, Papadopoulos says he has “no recollection” of telling the campaign about the Russian “dirt.” Democrats on the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees will likely challenge him on that—one of the biggest lingering mysteries of the 2016 election is whether the Trump campaign knew anything about the stolen emails before agreeing to meet with Russian nationals at Trump Tower, on the promise of obtaining dirt on Clinton, in June 2016. If Papadopoulos told the campaign as early as April that the Russians could be helpful to Trump, then the lens through which we’ve viewed Russia’s election interference shifts dramatically.”

He has publicly insisted since his sentencing to not telling the Trump campaign about the emails. Besides not being very intuitive-he told them everything else about his outreach and told the Greek Defense Minster about the emails yet he withheld this biggest get of all?- as we saw in (chapter E) that he told a a patron at a Chicago bar in March that he told Jeff Sessions about the emails-according to this patron who has no reason to lie. Next, we’ll be hearing he was from the FBI…Assuming the patron is telling the truth that means that we’ve caught both Papadopoulos and Jeff Sessions in perjury again big time. Both have already been caught lying multiple times.And again, intuitively and logically, it defies belief that he wouldn’t have told the Trump campaign about such a tasty tidbit. As we saw in (Chapter C) according to Bannon’s own Congressional testimony the campaign was constantly being besieged with people claiming to have Clinton’s deleted emails. It’s pretty clear that this is what Don Jr hoped to garner from the Trump Tower Russian Collusion meeting on June, 9 2016. Papadopuolous wanted to get ahead with the Trump campaign and yet he kept that to himself and the Greek Defense Minister? And as noted above, Mangiante herself stated that George spoke to Bannon during the campaign. Did he really not mention the emails in that environment? Not if he wanted to get ahead in MAGA world.

Indeed, he clearly still wants to.

UPDATE: Another deleted tweet.

Which is why nothing he says is very ‘trustable.’Apparently, 14 days wasn’t long enough for the Coffee Boy-he wants more.

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