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    Papadopoulos says Sessions supported Putin campaign meeting, asks for most lenient sentence

    By Katelyn Polantz, CNN
    Updated 3:25 AM ET, Sat September 1, 2018

    (CNN)Convicted former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos has publicly contradicted Attorney General Jeff Sessions' sworn testimony to Congress, saying both Sessions and Donald Trump apparently supported his proposal that Trump meet with Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign, according to a court filing late Friday night.

    "While some in the room rebuffed George's offer, Mr. Trump nodded with approval and deferred to Mr. Sessions who appeared to like the idea and stated that the campaign should look into it. George's giddiness over Mr. Trump's recognition was prominent during the days that followed," Papadopoulos' lawyers wrote in a court filing Friday. Papadopoulos' legal team said that he has shared with special counsel Robert Mueller his recollections of the March 31, 2016, meeting.

    Sessions, when asked about that meeting under oath, said that he "pushed back" on the idea of the Putin summit. CNN previously reported that Trump "heard him out," according to another adviser in the room, when Papadopoulos proposed the idea and offered to help execute it.

    The new description came in a criminal sentencing request Papadopoulos' legal team filed to a federal judge late Friday night -- the same day a lobbyist for Ukrainians admitted in court to criminal obstruction when he lied to Congress, and amid the President's intensifying public feud with Sessions.

    Papadopoulos "was the first domino, and many have fallen in behind," his attorneys write Friday. "Despite the gravity of his offense, it is important to remember what Special Counsel said at George's plea of guilty: he was just a small part of a large-scale investigation."

    Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to one count of lying to investigators last October. He asked the judge to sentence him to only probation that he has already served during the year since his plea, effectively allowing him to go free after his sentencing next week.

    In a long narrative about his experiences, Papadopoulos' attorneys attempt in the sentencing memo to portray Papadopoulos as a young and eager Trump campaign staffer who found himself unaware of the broad investigation into Russian interference in the election when he lied to the FBI last year.

    "Mr. Papadopoulos is ashamed and remorseful," Papadopoulos' attorneys wrote Friday. "His motives for lying to the FBI were wrongheaded indeed but far from the sinister spin the government suggests."

    The Trump-Putin idea

    Papadopoulos goes into specifics for the first time about how he floated the idea of a meeting between Trump and Putin at a campaign roundtable at the Trump International Hotel in March 2016. Donald Trump, then-Sen. Jeff Sessions and others attended the meeting.

    About a month later, Papadopoulos learned that the Russians had "dirt" on Trump's opposition, Hillary Clinton, in "thousands of emails."

    A Trump-Putin get-together never happened during the campaign.

    Seeking probation

    Prosecutors previously asked the judge to imprison Papadopoulos for up to six months, after he thwarted their early attempts to question a foreigner who may have known about Russian interference in the presidential campaign. The prosecutors' sentencing request focused more on the repeated lies Papadopoulos told about his contact with foreigners when he spoke to the FBI last year, and less about his interactions inside the Trump campaign.

    In the filing Friday, Papadopoulos' lawyers lay out the image of an intellectually curious, successful and worldly man. They describe his scholarly work on energy policy in foreign countries and his interest in working for Trump in 2016.

    Papadopoulos had "no experience with US and Russian diplomacy" when he started with Trump's campaign in 2016 -- yet eventually became one of the future president's foreign policy advisers.

    In March that year, Papadopoulos met Joseph Mifsud, a European professor working in London who claimed to have connections to the Russian government, Papadopoulos's lawyers said. "Professor Mifsud paid young George little attention until learning of his position as one of Trump's foreign policy advisers," they write.

    Papadopoulos' defense team also describes the first time he spoke to the FBI, months before the appointment of Robert Mueller as special counsel. Papadopoulos thought the FBI agents who came to his mother's house while he showered in early 2017 wanted to speak with him about Russian businessman Sergei Millian -- then enmeshed in the Trump dossier news coverage, the filing says. Millian at one point had pitched Papadopoulos "an opportunity," the lawyers write, giving few other details.

    Media reports around that time identified Millian as a source of information in the dossier, though CNN has not confirmed his involvement nor many of the details in the dossier about alleged Trump-Russia collusion.

    Millian has denied being a source for the dossier and says he does not have any compromising information about Trump.

    Papadopoulos also spoke to the FBI investigators at that time about another foreign policy adviser for Trump with Russia connections, Carter Page, and about Mifsud and others.

    Papadopoulos admits to lying to the FBI about his knowledge of the hacked Clinton emails.

    "Out of loyalty to the new president and his desire to be part of the administration, he hoisted himself upon his own petard," Papadopoulos' attorneys write.

    Papadopoulos is scheduled to be sentenced on September 7 by federal district judge Randy Moss in DC.

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    Amazing that all of these convictions are about lying, none about the alleged crimes. And so many given immunity for their "crimes" so they will not be convicted as long as they possibly make up things desirable to the prosecutor!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Papadopoulos says Sessions supported Putin campaign meeting, asks for most lenient sentence

    Convicted former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos has publicly contradicted Attorney General Jeff Sessions' sworn testimony to Congress, saying both Sessions and Donald Trump apparently supported his proposal that Trump meet with Vladimir Putin during the 2016 campaign, according to a court filing late Friday night.
    How did Trump get left out of the title to this article, when the first sentence says both Sessions and Donald Trump?
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    Quote Originally Posted by stoptheinvaders View Post
    How did Trump get left out of the title to this article, when the first sentence says both Sessions and Donald Trump?
    Because Trump didn't say anything, he only apparently nodded. The real question is why is this even being discussed in the article? There's no crime in setting up a meeting with Putin and a candidate for President or any other office, or any plain ole citizen or person. Personally I was hoping Trump would set up a meeting with Putin during the campaign, I thought that would have been awesome. Trump went down to Mexico and met with the Mexican President, I thought that was great, too. Trump didn't want to fly his plane all the way to Russia which is why he didn't do it, he hates long flights and they're very expensive. Remember he was financing most of his campaign.

    Things are going to change and change swiftly in my opinion. All these Russia Haters are falling off the boat quicker than I can keep up with them, Flake is out of the Senate, McCain has passed away, Corker decided not to run again, and several more that have been keeping this Hate On Russia hype going ... are draining out of the swamp. DemoQuacks hate Russia when they don't have the White House, but when they do have the White House, they love Russia, they sold these awful oligarchs of the grand tyrant Putin, 20% of our uranium reserves, gave them a reset button with the wrong word on it, flitted and flirted like a bunch of silly school girls, even Obama whispering "I'll have more flexibility after the election".

    LOL!! What a bunch of phony DemoQuack Dotards.

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