Trump Adviser George Papadopoulos Pleads Guilty in Mueller’s Russia Probe,

3 rats in 1 day.

Trump sure does love the Swamp.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-campaign-adviser-george-papadopoulos-pleads-guilty-lying-n815596

A former Trump campaign adviser struck a cooperation agreement with Special Counsel Robert Mueller, secretly pleading guilty three weeks ago to lying to federal agents about his contacts with Kremlin-connected Russians.

The bombshell announcement about George Papadopoulos came shortly after indictments against former campaign chair Paul Manafort and Manafort associate Rick Gates were unsealed, alleging financial crimes that predated Trump's candidacy.

Fmr. Trump Adviser Papadopoulos Pleads Guilty to Making False Statements to FBI 2:26

"Through his false statements and omissions, defendant ... impeded the FBI's ongoing investigation into the existence of any links or coordination between individuals associated with the Campaign and the Russian government's efforts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election," Mueller's team wrote in court documents unsealed Monday.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Monday that Papadopoulos had an "extremely limited" role with the campaign. "It was a volunteer position and again, no activity was ever done in an official capacity on behalf of the campaign in that regard," she said at a briefing.

What a day lol. The walls closing in on poor Donnie.

This is actually the most impactful charge to the administration. It's no longer just an unwitting oaf coordinating with Russia, it's also this guy who is cooperating with authorities in a deal. This places pressure on any others out there who were involved.

I hope all parties that are guilty or involved are processed to the full extent of the law.

America First.

If it saves us from 3 more years, Im hopeful.

Good. They need to get all of them.

wonder who is the next one

Ok

And the idea of this thread is?

@Jacanuk: I think that should be obvious....?

Yeah that's was a stupid thing to say........smh.

@RedEyedMonster8: Ok. and the debate worthy element is?

So who gives a crap if he plead guilty to lying, that´s his problem not Trumps.

Do you think your post is debate worthy? If you don't like the thread..........don't post. Simple.

This is a lot more telling than Manafort. The fact that he has a plea with the FBI may be an indication he's ready to testify and rat out actual members of the campaign.

Yep....a plea means he has something to offer.

Are you messing with me right now?

I see jancuck, or whatever his goofy name is, is getting all butthurt that Democrats were right all along - the Trump campaign was rotten to the core, filled with Russian agents. Omfg lol.

@Jacanuk: I'm petty sure it's Trump's, have you read the document about the case? It's pretty bad news for the current administration, the document describes campaign officials discussing sending someone "low level" down to Russia to avoid suspicion.

Have any of you been over to Fox News today? They've activated Full Deflection Mode.

Jesus I'm lookin at Bob Mueller's bio. Fucking beast of a man.

Nah, the closest I got was reading the Boehner interview (which was a lot of fun, BTW).

"Russian agents" lol.

Team Trump reached out to Russia for dirt on Clinton. Team Clinton, or at least the people working by proxy with Fusion GPS, tried to get dirt on Trump. Neither campaign is walking away from this with clean hands.

The difference is that Team Trump was more direct, and Trump was clear that he wanted to be warm with the Russians. When he talked about foreign policy, it was pretty much "Russia good. Hillary bad" so it's possible people like Papadopoulos acted independently, or at least without Trumps knowledge, in order to kill two birds with one stone: get cozy with Russians, and get dirt on Clinton in order to impress the boss. I think it's pretty unlikely Trump knew anything about it, simply because he has such a big mouth, people would probably want to keep him in the dark to cover their own ass.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article181664426.html

Papadopoulos is the first person to face criminal charges that cite interactions between Trump campaign associates and Russian intermediaries during the 2016 presidential campaign. However, Trump aides have said he played a limited role in the campaign and had no access to Trump.

In August, The Washington Post reported Papadopoulos suggested then-presidential candidate Trump meet with Russian leaders in March of 2016. He allegedly emailed the foreign policy team on the Trump campaign about “a meeting between us and the Russian leadership to discuss U.S.-Russia ties under President Trump,” the Post reported.

Papadopoulos started working for the Trump campaign in early 2016 after switching from the Ben Carson campaign, Newsweek reports. His LinkedIn account has recently listed him working as an independent oil, gas and policy consultant.

https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/who-is-george-papadopoulos

Papadopoulos' push for Trump to travel to Russia and it was rejected.

Papadopoulos is against US sanctions against Russia over the annexation of Crimea.

US sanctions against Russia over the annexation of Crimea is currently active under Trump.

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/a-transcript-of-donald-trumps-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-board/?tid=a_inl&utm_term=.6a19059620b0

He's Papadopoulous in his instagram post from March 2016 seated four seats from Trump's right: https://www.instagram.com/p/BDo-7SimhUn/

LOL at those believing the trump admin spin that these guys weren't that important. I thought everyone knew by now if trump's lips are moving.....he's lying.

@LJS9502_basic: It truly boggles the mind how people continually give Donnie the benefit of the doubt.

That's the point, in order to get you to believe what you believe (conspiricy). People like you are falling for his mind games much more than his supporters. Here's a relevant quote from Art of The Deal:

“The final key to the way I promote is bravado. I play to people's fantasies. People may not always think big themselves. but they can get very excited by those who do. That is why a little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest, the greatest and the most spectacular.”

@vl4d_l3nin: Tony Schwartz wrote that book, though lol.

One.......he didn't write that.

Two.....that makes absolutely no sense in this context.

@perfect_blue: Funny how Schwarz came out with those statements after Trump won the nomination and he stopped talking after Trump was elected, kind of like the sexual assault allegations. It's almost as if the media just didn't want this guy to win and would do whatever they could to prevent him from getting elected, even though they accidentally did the opposite.

What the hell are you talking about.

If Trump gets deposed, Russia may invade in an attempt to protect the russian speaking people of the US and annex the Crimean, or uh, i mean Massachusetts

Was wondering that same thing myself...........

Yeah I don't get what his point is.

I think I went to school with that guy. Don't remember him, though.

lol they call him "Bobby Three Sticks"! that's great (in reference to him being Bob Mueller III).

But yeah, pretty solid guy; Vietnam vet, attorney, no-nonsense. Goes after those white-collar dipshits. Seems like a righteous dude, not someone you want to get on the bad side of. True patriot.

I wish him the best of luck, hope he finds something juicy to sink his teeth into and never lets go.

"In January 2016, he was appointed as Settlement Master in the U.S. consumer litigation over the Volkswagen emissions scandal; as of May 11, 2017, the scandal has resulted in $11.2 billion in customer settlements"

Dammmmmmmmmmn...not even Trump has that kind of money :D

Actual Trump team has negative remarks against George Papadopoulos i.e. Ann Coulter labeled George Papadopoulos as a "nobody".

Trump doesn't seem to even know who manafort and the others are now. Haha. Russian collision is coming home to roost. Hopefully, for the sake of the country, they'll all be in orange jumpsuits soon.

What's a Russian Collision?

@n64dd: a Russian collision is when members of the Trump admin and the Trump crime family meet head on with Russian spies to commit conspiracy against the people of the United States. Lol. Trumpkins

You mean a Russian COLLUSION.

@n64dd: wow, you're as sharp as a knife!

Since you purposefully skipped it,

No. Linking a video of Anne Coulter giving her opinion is not a fact based rebuttal to the objective data quoted above. I can't believe you even tried that.

Oh and,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-low-level-volunteer-papadopoulos-sought-high-profile-as-trump-adviser/2017/10/31/dc737a42-be5f-11e7-8444-a0d4f04b89eb_story.html

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/oct/30/how-important-was-george-papadopoulos-donald-trump/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/31/us/politics/trump-manafort-papadopoulos-mueller.html

Smarter than you.

Don´t argue with a troll N64dd :) , that profile is an alt-account.

Ironic post lol.

Another troll!

If George Papadopoulos was important to Trump, how come Russian sanctions are still in place?

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/25/16548688/trump-administration-delaying-russia-sanctions

Irrelevant though, I'm just stating that Anne Coulter was objectively wrong. As usual.