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George Papadopoulos-aka the treasonous Coffee Boy-has been doing a lot of talking-or tweeting since he was sentenced in September. And  Mueller has taken note of what he’s been tweeting, and has made it clear anything that Papadopoulos tweets can and will be used against him in Mueller’s Russia probe. 

As Mueller pointed out in a court filing last week, what Papadopoulos has now been tweeting directly contradicts what he said on the day of sentencing-where he admitted his guilt in committing perjury, since then he’s claimed that Mueller somehow ‘entrapped him’ and that his ‘biggest regret was pleading guilty.’

UPDATE: Michael Flynn after cooperating quite fulsomely with Mueller and a tremendous amount of information-that likely included Papadopoulos himself as well as Peter Smith’s clearly stated intent to conspire with Russian hackers to commit computer crimes on behalf of the Trump campaign-the Coffee Boy is pretty close to Flynn and his son and emailed the disgraced general-along with Bannon, Spicer, Priebus and Kellyann Conway-tried this same ‘I lied to the FBI but only because the FBI entrapped me’ trick at his own sentencing to disastrous effect-see Chapter A.

End of UPDATE.

UPDATE 2: He’s now awaiting sentencing and it’s doubtful the judge will feel very lenient with his going from fulsome cooperating witness to Fox News defense. Judge Emmet Sullivan had told Flynn that I can’t hide my disgust with Flynn’s collusion and conspiracy last year and certainly it’s hard to see that anything Flynn and his new Fox News layers have done in the last year that could possibly have changed that-you would think the opposite if anything.

At this point, Papadopoulos is set to begin his 14 day sentence on Monday-unless the judge intervenes. 

I do have a source-I have an actual major journalist source!-who has revealed on the down low-at least as of last night-Friday, November 23, 2018 that Papadopoulos may be considering not showing up to jail. The Coffee Boy keeps making things worse for himself-Mueller maybe wouldn’t have driven a hard line had Papadpoulos not insisted on all this ranting on Twitter about conspiracies on the part of the UK and Australia-lately claiming that somehow Peter Strozk was connected to Alexander Downer-who the Coffee Boy now claims wasn’t even Australia’s top diplomat-even though he was. That Papa Daft is losing his grip is underscored by his latest gem: that Kashoggi was involved in this plot.

He’s even slandering the dead in his zeal to create an alternative narrative to please ‘President Trump.’

And of course, Papadopoulos has been fomenting all manner of conspiracies about his ‘Russian Professor’ friend who told him about the incriminating emails Russia had on Clinton back on April 26, 2016. He has been claiming that Mifsud is really a British intel agent-which is rather ironic as Mifsud’s lawyer, Stephen Roh says the same thing about him. claiming that Papadopoulos is the ‘western intelligence agent.

You’re a Western intelligence agent no YOU”RE a Western Intelligence Agent. 

Recently Papadopoulos testified before the GOP HSPCI though as seen in (Chapter A) he may have perjured himself. As we saw in chapter (B) he now claims he wants to testify before the Senate Intel Committee but only with immunity. Clearly he has nothing to hide.

It should be remembered that it was specifically regarding Mifsud-when he first met with him, that Papadopoulos lied about when the FBI interviewed him in February, 2017-this lie was material as it enabled Mifsud to escape-he was actually in Washington DC at the time.

Even more uncannily, it’s believed that much of the absurd things the Coffee Boy is now saying come from his quite suspicious new wife, who many suspect-including George’s own family-of-if not being a Russian spy, certainly someone with a rather murky and mysterious agenda. Again coincidences take a lot of planning… Well how’s this for a coincidence-Simone Mangiante Papadopoulos-knew and had previously worked with Mifsud in the European Parliament-by her own admission, a hotbed for Russian spies. Both husband and wife claim rather implausibly to never had spoken about Mifsud or knew he was their mutual acquaintance when they met.

UPDATE: However a year later they asserted the opposite on Ari Melber-Chapter A. In their joint interview with Ari it emerged that they met through Mifsud-Papadopoulos asked her what she knew about his Russian Professor. This was in itself quite a bombshell but Melber didn’t seem to appreciate the magnitude of what he’d found-the overall tone of this interview was ‘Gee Bill Barr said you’re exonerated’-Melber seemed to not only take Barr’s fake exoneration  of  Trump at face value but infer from it that somehow the Coffee Boy was exonerated too. It’s like because Mueller didn’t find evidence beyond a reasonable doubt with the conspiracy with the Russian government therefore no one in TrumpWorld did anything even slightly wrong regarding Russian interference. Which was disappointing-Ari is considered  a pretty good lawyer, after all.

Regarding the idea George may try to step out on his sentence here was his wife last night on Mifsud:

https://twitter.com/ScottMStedman/status/1066175794064420864

As for Mifsud, himself, he vanished without a trace after his name was mentioned in Mueller’s October 31, 2017 indictment of Papadopoulos-a day known as Mueller indictment Monday.

“But since his name was revealed in the press, Mifsud has gone silent. His bio was removed from a university in Scotland and another institution in Italy where he previously taught. They now show ‘404 Not Found’ error pages.”

“In WhatsApp messages revealed by Buzzfeed between Mifsud and his fiancé, Anna — who spoke to Buzzfeed on the condition that she be referred to only by her first name — the professor urged her to not speak to journalists.”

“Someone from London [sic] journalist asks about you,” Anna messaged Mifsud last October 31.

“Do not reply please,” Mifsud messaged back.

“That was the last time the two have been in touch. Anna has since given birth to a baby girl. She says Mifsud is the father, according to Buzzfeed.”

“Italian prosecutors are also having a difficult time getting in touch with Mifsud. They have been trying to notify him that he is being summoned to appear at a court hearing in July in response to allegations of financial wrongdoing, but the records at the prosecutor’s office in the south of Italy say Mifsud has been “unreachable,” per Buzzfeed.

According to Anna, Mifsud was also buddies with: yep, Sergey Lavrov.

“Anna claims that Mifsud, a Maltese national, has connections to high-ranking officials in the Russian government, including the Kremlin’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov.”

“He said, ‘I have dinner with Lavrov tonight. Lavrov is my friend. Lavrov this, Lavrov that,'” Anna told Buzzfeed. “He even show me picture with Lavrov.”

Lavrov-and Sergey Kisylak-who was ever present in the Trump campaign-were Trump’s guests in the Oval Office with no American journalists present the morning after he fired Comey.

Here’s one of Trump and Lavrov by themselves-alone at last!

In any case Mifsud and Papadopoulos have something else in common besides engaging in wild Russian like conspiracy theories where each accuse the other of being Western intelligence agents: both now claim to want to testify before Senate Intelligence-as we saw above, Papadopolous is only willing to do it with immunity. Interestingly neither seem eager to testify before Adam Schiff..

His lawyer Stephan Roh-who wrote the book accusing the Coffee Boy of working for Israel- recently told Buzzfeed about Mifsud’s alleged desire to testify:

“A lawyer closely associated with Joseph Mifsud claims that the Maltese professor, who allegedly delivered word of Hillary Clinton’s stolen emails to Donald Trump’s campaign, is willing to testify to the US Senate.”

Again, he disappeared without a trace since he was named in Papadopoulos’ indictment last October, 31, 2017.

But in an email to BuzzFeed News sent on Monday, Stephan Roh, a 51-year-old Swiss lawyer with a long history of dealings with Mifsud, wrote, “Prof Mifsud is to testify in front of the US Senate — we are working towards his appearance.”

“Spokespeople for the Senate Intelligence Committee declined to comment, and BuzzFeed News has been unable to independently verify this claim.”

Asked if a date for the testimony had been set, whether Mifsud would be traveling to the US in person to testify, and if any talks with Senate officials to schedule a testimony had already taken place, Roh replied, “we will not comment or answer further questions of journalists until the Senate hearing takes place — unless necessary and in the interest of Prof. Mifsud.”

Should the Maltese academic suddenly reappear in public after more than a year to testify before the Senate, it could be a hugely significant moment in Mueller’s investigation.

Roh claims that Mifsud has done nothing wrong and was set up — and denies having ever told Papadopoulos the Russians had dirt on Clinton.

So Roh says Mifsud was setup. Papadopoulos for his part claims that he was setup-by Mifsud. Both are using Putin style active measure campaigns in ways that discredit both of them-unfortunately they don’t have the Agalarov’s lawyer, Steven Balber, to coordinate their stories.

“Last month, Roh emailed a photograph of Mifsud purportedly taken in May this year to several news organizations, including BuzzFeed News. Despite several requests, Roh has not granted BuzzFeed News — or other outlets — permission to publish the photo, the existence of which was first reported by the Associated Press.”

“In the photo, the Maltese professor, sporting stubble and with his stare fixed on the camera, is pictured seated at a table with the May 17, 2018, edition of a Swiss newspaper.”

“According to Roh, who was interviewed by the FBI last year as part of the Trump-Russia investigation, Mifsud, 58, was in Zurich days later, instructing legal representation and recording a witness statement with Roh’s law firm. A power-of-attorney document dated May 21 of this year can also clearly be seen in the photograph.”

“Roh said that Mifsud traveled to Zurich for their meeting by train from Italy. Two sources BuzzFeed News has spoken to in recent months have also claimed the Maltese professor was in Rome this summer. However, neither source provided corroborating evidence.”

“During the course of several email exchanges and telephone calls with BuzzFeed News — using different numbers with dialing codes originating in the United Arab Emirates and Russia — between early October and this week, Roh shared what he claims to be Mifsud’s side of the story.”

So Mifsud is allegedly in Italy and travelled for the meeting and photo with Roh in Zurich by train. However, Roh himself has used different dialing codes in his exchanges with Buzzfeed originating in the United Arab Emirates and Russia, ie, two countries that Trump quite possibly colluded with to win the 2016 election-(see Chapter B).

Coincidences take a lot of planning. 

“Roh claims to have spoken to Mifsud multiple times this year directly, and through an intermediary, including from mobile and landline numbers with an Italian dialing code. The Swiss lawyer also said the academic spoke to him from Malta in December last year, where he was visiting his ill parents, and has told him of trips to other European countries this year.

“BuzzFeed News has not been able to independently confirm any of these movements, nor to establish Mifsud’s current whereabouts.”

So all of this is just Roh’s assertions and we already know he’s made some recklessly false assertions-that Papadopoulos was an intel agent-just as Papadopolous has made about Mifsud and that Roh-like his mother in law-has deep ties to Russia.

“According to the government’s sentencing memo, published in August, Papadopoulos’s statements “substantially hindered” investigators’ ability to effectively question Mifsud when the FBI located him in Washington, DC, in February 2017. “The defendant’s lies undermined investigators’ ability to challenge the Professor or potentially detain or arrest him while he was still in the United States,” the document states.”

“Mifsud and Roh’s careers intertwine at several junctions. Mifsud was a consultant at Roh’s law firm. The Swiss lawyer was advertised as a visiting fellow in a brochure promoting the diplomacy academy where Mifsud was a director. The two men, who have known each other for more than a decade, also co-authored a number of reports between 2015 and 2017. They spoke on the same panel at a Valdai Discussion Club in April 2016, an annual gathering of Russian and international political, media, and academic elites backed by the Kremlin. And both men have long had a professional relationship with Rome’s Link Campus University where Mifsud worked since the 2000s, and Roh was an investor.”

“Roh declined to discuss what Mifsud would say if he does testify.”

But he doesn’t want to testify before Adam Schiff. I wonder why…

Scott Stedman:

UPDATE: The Coffee Boy’s mysterious ‘Russian Professor’ who was the basis for him meeting his future wife-who’s rather mysterious in her own right-remains an enigma that the Mueller Report-at least the part unredacted by Bill Barr and Friends-did little to unravel.

For what it’s worth the IG investigation into the origins of the Russia investigation that Barr ordered found no evidence that Mifsud was a plant by U.S intelligence. 

Personally it’s not worth that much-as there was never any real basis for this claim in the first place-it was news for the MSM who gave this counternarrative way too respectful a hearing and hopefully takes some of the air out of it-though Trump and the GOP co-conspirators are utterly indifferent to wether something they says is true or not.

But Horowitz’s IG investigation was sort of like the FBI investigation into Emailgate-while both came to the correct conclusion neither were ever legitimately predicated in the first place and so it’s still a win for the GOP co-conspirators-there’s nothing for them to continue to just assert without any basis that Mifsud is a US intel agent or whatever-Bill Barr has already dismissed the report’s findings as it doesn’t say what he wanted.

Maybe the MSM will push back against the lies a little more going forward-even that I wouldn’t bet the farm on. Everyday Trump and his GOP co-conspirators blast out their tissues of lies and mostly the MSM stands there respectfully and doesn’t ask a followup. The customary response of the Savvy when Trump lies to their faces-‘No collusion, no obstruction, totally phony investigation setup by Democrats in the Deep State-is to simply move on to something else-rather than contradicting the lies.

Of course, the Ken Dilanian-Dean Baquet MSM largely still believes that Mueller found NO COLLUSION even though it’s clear if you can simply read that’s not what the Mueller Report says or what Mueller said in his testimony-that most pundits appeared to find to boring stylistically to even worry over the substance of.

The sad truth today is that there really is no downside to just making up bald face lies. Even when the Beltway press pushes back on them they never push back too much as they don’t want to seem like they’re ‘liberals’ or something.  The tendency of false equivalence means that even if Trump lies 73% of the time the MSM doesn’t want to belabor this too much-they only want to call him out roughly the amount that they call out his Democratic opponents. So if the average Dem politician lies-for argument sake-29% of the time and Trump lies 73% of the time the pundits don’t want to call Trump out much more than 29% of the time-otherwise they worry it seems biased-just like Comey’s answer to GOP co-conspirator claims that the FBI was biased for Clinton-by in fact being biased against her-doing things that had never been done before-violating her privacy, ignoring DOJ rules and protocols, endless leaking ,etc.

So there’s no real downside for the GOP to make up lies like that Misfsud was a US intel plant-Papadopoulos went as far as claiming Mifsud worked for Khasghoggi-before he was executed by Jared Kushner’s pal. The MSM will call them out to an extent but not want to push too hard and be accused by Sean Hannity-Rush Limbaugh, et al of being liberals. So a large amount of lies will get through and penetrate the public bloodstream.

Then even if a government investigation proves them to be lies, the GOP can just keep asserting the ties and dismiss the debunking as being done by the Deep State-of course, the real Deep State is anti Clinton and has been for 27 years.

Meanwhile, the actual positive facts about Mifsud that the Mueller Report didn’t answer remain buried.

Like that old saying says the lie is halfway around the world before the Truth gets its pants on.

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