Papadopoulos
Details Alleged Entrapment Scheme By Undercover Deep State Agents
4
November, 2018
George
Papadopoulos - a central figure and self-admitted dupe in the Obama
administration's targeted spying on the Trump campaign, gave a
wide-ranging interview to Dan Bongino on Friday, detailing what he
claims to have been a setup by deep state operatives across the world
in order to ultimately infiltrate the Trump campaign.
Reviewing events
In March 2016,
Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud told Papadopoulos - an energy
consultant who had recently joined the Trump campaign - that Russia
had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, a claim which
Papadopoulos repeated in May 2016 to Australian diplomat
Alexander Downer in a London
bar.
Of note, former FBI Assistant Director of counterintelligence, Bill
Priestap, reportedly traveled
to London directly
before Downer met with Papadopoulos, while a few months later former
FBI agent Peter Strzok met with Downer in London directly before
the DOJ officially launched their investigation into the Trump
campaign.
The
alleged admission about Clinton's emails officially sparked the Obama
administration's counterintelligence operation on Trump on July 31,
2016 - dubbed Operation Crossfire Hurricane. In September 2016, the
FBI would send spy Stefan Halper to further probe Papadopoulos on the
Clinton email allegation, and - according to his interview with Dan
Bongino, Papadoplous says Halper angrily accused him of working with
Russia before storming out of a meeting.
Halper essentially began interrogating Papadopoulos, saying that it’s “obviously in your interest to be working with the Russians” and to “hack emails.” “You’re complicit with Russia in this, isn’t that right George” Halper told him. Halper also inquired about Hillary’s hacked emails, insinuating that Papadopoulos possessed them. Papadopoulos denied knowing anything about this and asked to be left alone. -Bongino.com
There
are two schools of thought on Papadopoulos and his relationship with
Mifsud - the first
link in the chain regarding
the Clinton email rumor. Notably, Mifsud claimed last
November to
be a member of the Clinton Foundation, and has donated to
the charity.
The
first theory is that Mifsud and Papadopoulos are Russian agents, and
that Papadopoulos was used to try and establish a backchannel to
Putin. Papadopoulos
admits he
tried to set up a Trump-Putin meeting - which was flatly rejected by
the Trump campaign. Papadopoulos, however, claims the Putin
connection was a woman Mifsud introduced him to claiming to be
Putin's niece, who was present at a March 24, 2016 meeting.
The
second theory regarding Mifsud is that he was a deep state plant
working with the FBI; convincing Papadopoulos that he could arrange a
meeting with members of the Russian government and then seeding
Papadopoulos with the Clinton email rumor. From there, as the theory
goes, the "deep state" attempted to pump Papadopoulos for
information and set up a case against him - beginning with Alexander
Downer and the "drunken" confession in Londo
n.
He met Mifsud first. Mifsud plants the intel, “Russians have Hillary emails.”
Later, George meets Downer and tells him about the emails. Downer then tells the FBI. FBI then meets PapaD. Why did Strzok’s boss fly to London close to the date Downer met with PapaD?
Papadopoulos
told Bongino that he wasn't drunk during his meeting with Downer, and
that he was being recorded.
Papadopoulos noted during the Bongino interview that
transcripts of his meetings with Mifsud and Dower reportedly exist -
which he says proves that he was set up. According
to Papadopoulos, Mifsud's lawyer said that he's not a Russian asset
and was instead working for Western intelligence.
Papadopoulos
pleaded guilty to lying the FBI about his interactions with Mifsud,
and was sentenced to 14 days in federal prison and a $9,500 fine.
$10,000
cash
Papadopoulos
also told Bongino about $10,000 in cash that he was given in an
Israel hotel room in July
2017 -
which he claims was another attempt to set him up. He says that he
believes the bills were marked, and is
looking for a way to bring the cash into the United States for
Congressional investigators to analyze. The
cash is currently with his attorney in Greece.
"I’m
actually trying to bring that money back somehow so that Congress can
investigate it because I am 100 percent sure those are marked bills,
and to see who was actually running this operation against me,"
Papadopoulos gold Bongino.
"I
am more than happy to deliver the $10,000 in cash I received, as part
of what I believe was a sting operation to frame me in summer 2017,
to your committee to examine for marked bills. This is in the
interest of me being fully transparent," he wrote last week on
Twitter to North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows and Texas Rep.
John Ratcliffe.
The two Republicans are members of a congressional task force investigating the FBI’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. The task force interviewed Papadopoulos on Oct. 25.
Papadopoulos acknowledged in his interview with Bongino that his claims about his encounters with an Israeli-American businessman named Charles Tawil were “an incredible, insane story.”
“But it’s true,” he asserted.
Papadopoulos told Bongino the he believes that Tawil “was working on behalf of Western intelligence to entrap me.”
Papadopoulos does not have direct evidence that Tawil was working on behalf of a Western government when they met in March and July 2017. Instead, Papadopoulos is speculating based on what he says is the peculiar circumstances of his encounters with Tawil as well as his meetings with at least one known FBI informant. -Daily Caller
Afraid
he might be killed if he didn't accept the money, Papadopoulos took
the funds and later contacted Tawil - who allegedly told Papadopoulos
he didn't want it back. From there, Papadopoulos gave the cash to his
attorney in Greece. Upon his return to the United States several days
later, Papadopoulos was arrested on July 28, 2017 at Dulles
International Airport in Washington D.C., by agents who he
believes were looking for the cash.
And then when Papadopoulos landed back in America, he was arrested at Dulles International Airport on July 27th. Strangely, he wasn’t shown the warrant for his arrest when arrested, and didn’t know the reason why until the next day. The $10,000 that Tawil paid Papadopoulos in cash is interesting in this context, as it would be the exact amount of money one would be required to declare at customs. Papadopoulos didn’t recall if he was arrested before or after he filled out a customs slip (but didn’t have the money on him). -Bongino.com
At minimum, one should set aside an hour for the Bongino-Papadopoulos interview if only to hear his version of events.
Perhaps the biggest mystery of all is how George was able to end up with such a hot Italian (not Russian) wife:
In god we trust. George took me this morning to the Orthodox Church. We prayed for everyone, the good and the lost souls. #neverlosefaith
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