Here is a free copy of the full Papadopoulos Sentencing Memo, submitted by his attorney it's 16 pages long or I would post it, but there are some interesting tidbits in there that are worth noting. The timeline is a little skewed from what we thought we knew.
First I'd heard that Papadopoulos had approached the Trump Campaign first and was turned away, before deciding to join Ben Carson, and then circled back when Carson folded up tent.
This quote here doesn't match what multiple accounts of that meeting have said in the past.
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On March 31, 2016, he joined Mr. Trump, Senator Jeff Sessions, and other campaign officials for a "National Security Meeting" at the Trump Hotel. George's photograph at this meeting flashed around the world via Twitter. Eager to show his value to the campaign, George announced at the meeting that he had connections that could facilitate a foreign policy meeting between Mr. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 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.
Sessions said under oath in his testimony that Papadopoulos tried to bring up possible meetings with Russians and Sessions said he cut him off at the ankles, and then there was the email afterward from Papadopoulos to Manafort trying to bring it up again, and it was replied to saying, it's not going to happen, and to drop it. Papadopoulos was persona non grata after that and wasn't invited to attend any more meeting.
This part sounds too scripted to me
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On the morning of January 27, 2017, as George stepped out of the shower at his mother's home in Chicago, two FBI agents knocked on the door seeking to interview him. The agents asked George to accompany them to their office to answer a "couple questions" regarding "a guy in New York that you might know, that has recently been in the news." George thought the agents wanted to ask him about Russian businessman Sergei Millian. Wanting clarification, he asked the agents, "just so I understand, I'm going there to answer questions about this person who I think you're talking about." The agents assured George that the topic of discussion was Mr. Millian who had been trending in the national media.
En route to the FBI office, George voiced concern about the repercussions of his cooperation ever becoming public because the Wall Street Journal had just reported that Sergei Millian was a key source in the "Trump Dossier" controversy. George explained that he was in discussions with senior Trump administration officials about a position and the last thing he wanted was "something like this" casting the administration in a bad light. The agents assured him that his cooperation would remain confidential. George let the agents know that he wanted to help so that he could move on and serve his country. Seemingly as promised, the agents began their questioning about George's relationship with Sergei Millian. George knew Mr. Millian only as a businessman pitching an opportunity to George in his personal capacity. The agents asked how they first met, what they discussed, how often they talked or met in person, if George knew whether Mr. Millian was connected to Russia or a foreign intelligence service, and who else on Mr. Trump's campaign may have been in contact with Mr. Millian. George answered their questions honestly.
Personally something smells in this document, can't put my finger on it, but it hints at Papadopoulos being more than just some knucklehead that was trapped, it hints that he was a knowing active participant of the left.
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Less than twenty minutes into the interview, the agents dropped the Millian inquiry and turned to recent news about Russian influence in the presidential election. George told the agents he had no knowledge of anyone on the campaign colluding with the Russians and it would not have been in anyone's interest to undermine the democratic process. George was surprised to be answering questions about Russian interference in the election and told the agents the topic caught him off guard.
The FBI agent confirmed that the Sergei Millian inquiry was just a ruse to get him in a room when he told George that:
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the reason we wanted to pull you in today and have that conversation
because we wanted to know to the extent of your knowledge being an
insider inside that small group of people that were policy advisors who,
if anybody, has that connection with Russia and what, what sort of
connections there were.
For the next two hours, George answered questions about Professor Mifsud, Olga, Carter Page, Sergei Millian and the "Trump Dossier," and George's interactions with other people working on the campaign. The agents asked George if he would be willing to actively cooperate and contact various people they had discussed. While George did not think he would be able to get information from those individuals, he stated his willingness to try. He told the agents he was unaware of anyone in the campaign knowing of the stolen Hillary Clinton emails prior to the emails being publicly released.
Further, George told the agents he had no knowledge of meetings between Russian government officials and people working on the campaign. Moreover, at the time investigators interviewed Professor Mifsud they were unaware of George's false statements, and George was still a cooperating source in their investigation. It seems improbable that the investigators would have challenged Professor Mifsud with George's statements for fear of revealing their source.
Additionally, if Professor Mifsud denied telling George about the stolen emails, it is unlikely he would have said something different if the agents confronted him with additional information.
I thought Mifsud did deny saying anything about emails. He clarified that he only said dirt, nothing about emails.
It's talked about here by Andrew McCarthy
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/06/george-papadopoulos-case-needs-closer-look/Link to the filing
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.189898/gov.uscourts.dcd.189898.45.0.pdf Never take a hostage you aren't willing to shoot,
Remember, America doesn’t negotiate with terrorists.
Code 7 10-42
