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After a stop in Rome, Mifsud returned to England on April 25, 2016.462 The next day, Papadopoulos met Mifsud for breakfast at the Andaz Hotel (the same location as their last. meeting).463 During that meeting, Mifsud told Papadopoulos that he had met with high-level Russian government officials during his recent trip to Moscow. Mifsud also said that, on the trip, he learned that the Russians had obtained "dirt" on candidate Hillary Clinton. As Papadopoulos later stated to the FBI, Mifsud said that the "dirt" was in the form of "emails of Clinton," and that they "have thousands of emails."464 On May 6, 2016, 10 days after that meeting with Mifsud, Papadopoulos suggested to a representative of a foreign government that the Trump Campaign had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to Hillary Clinton. 465

That is interesting. The Russians were feeding Papadopoulos all the things Trump would want to hear. Dirt on Hillary Clinton, emails and thousands of them. Mifsud met with him on April 25, 2016. The attacks by "Fancy Bear" (Russia - The Russian Bear) began in April 2016. It looks as though Russia wasn't lying when they passed that information to Mifsud.

NO ONE IN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WAS RUNNING AS QUICK AS THEY COULD TO THE FBI.

e. Russia-Related Communications

With The Campaign While he was discussing with his foreign contacts a potential meeting of campaign officials with Russian government officials, Papadopoulos kept campaign officials apprised of his efforts. On April 25, 2016, the day before Mifsud told Papadopoulos about the emails, Papadopoulos wrote to senior policy advisor Stephen Miller that "[t]he Russian government has an open invitation by Putin for Mr. Trump to meet him when he is ready," and that "[t]he advantage of being in London is that these governments tend to speak a bit more openly in 'neutral' cities."466 On April 27, 2016, after his meeting with Mifsud, Papadopoulos wrote a second message to Miller stating that "some interesting messages [were] coming in from Moscow about a trip when the time is right." 467 The same day, Papadopoulos sent a similar email to campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, telling Lewandowski that Papadopoulos had "been receiving a lot of calls over the last month about Putin wanting to host [Trump] and the team when the time is right. " 468

Why does that sound like a conspiracy to me? I am recognizing that Papadopoulos was bragging even ahead of the actual facts, but, it was all true in the long run. I am convinced Russia was in control. This sure sounds like a conspiracy to me. Publishing the emails on Wikileaks distanced Trump from the crime, but, it was a conspiracy the entire time.

Papadopoulos' s Russia-related communications with Campaign officials continued throughout the spring and summer of 2016. On May 4, 2016, he forwarded to Lewandowski an email from Timofeev raising the possibility of a meeting in Moscow, asking Lewandowski whether that was " something we want to move forward with."469 The next day, Papadopoulos forwarded the same Timofeev email to Sam Clovis, adding to the top of the email "Russia update."470 He included the same email in a May 21, 2016 (the day four Russian jets were turned away from the Alaskan border by USA jets - probably NORAD) message to senior Campaign official Paul Manafort, under the subject line "Request from Russia to meet Mr. Trump," stating that "Russia has been eager to meet Mr. Trump for quite sometime and have been reaching out to me to discuss."471 Manafort forwarded the message to another Campaign official, without including Papadopoulos, and stated: "Let[']s discuss. We need someone to communicate that [Trump] is not doing these trips. It should be someone low level in the Campaign so as not to send any signal."472

The Trump Campaign needed a chump to dispell any idea they were involved in negotiations with Russia.

Footnote 462 4/22/16 Email, Mifsud to Papadopoulos (12:41:01 a.m.).
Footnote 463 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense 14; 4/25/16 Text Messages, Mifsud & Papadopoulos.
Footnote 464 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense 14. 

Footnote 465 This information is contained in the FBI case-opening document and related materials. The information is law enforcement sensitive (LES) and must be treated accordingly in any external dissemination. The foreign government conveyed this information to the U.S. government on July 26, 2016, a few days after WikiLeaks's release of Clinton-related emails. The FBI opened its investigation of potential coordination between Russia and the Trump Campaign a few days later based on the information.

Footnote 466 4/25/16 Email, Papadopoulos to S. Miller (8: 12:44 p.m.).
Footnote 467 4/27/16 Email, Papadopoulos to S. Miller (6:55:58 p.m.).
Footnote 468 4/27/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski (7:15:14 p.m.).
Footnote 469 5/4/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski (8:14:49 a.m.).
Footnote 470 5/5/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Clovis (7:15:21 p.m.).
Footnote 471 5/21/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Manafort (2:30: 14 p.m.).
Footnote 472 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense, r 19 n.2.

On June 1, 2016, Papadopoulos replied to an earlier email chain with Lewandowski about a Russia visit, asking if Lewandowski "want[ ed] to have a call about this topic" and whether "we were following up with it."473 After Lewandowski told Papadopoulos to "connect with" Clovis because he was "running point," Papadopoulos emailed Clovis that "the Russian MFA" was asking him "if Mr. Trump is interested in visiting Russia at some point."474 Papadopoulos wrote in an email that he "[w]anted to pass this info along to you for you to decide what's best to do with it and what message I should send (or to ignore)."475

The subject was too hot to handle. I am certain Trump knew pf these errands by Papadopoulos to secure a meeting with Putin. Some interested parties were writing to Cohen about this time as well, so it was not a secret within the campaign. Cory Lewandowski resigned from the position of campaign manager. Oh.

After several email and Skype exchanges with Timofeev,476 Papadopoulos sent one more email to Lewandowski on June 19, 2016, Lewandowski's last day as campaign manager. 477 The email stated that "[t]he Russian ministry of foreign affairs" had contacted him and asked whether, if Mr. Trump could not travel to Russia, a campaign representative such as Papadopoulos could attend meetings.478 Papadopoulos told Lewandowski that he was "willing to make the trip off the record if it's in the interest of Mr. Trump and the campaign to meet specific people." 479

Following Lewandowski's departure from the Campaign, Papadopoulos communicated with Clovis and Walid Phares,...

Dr. Phares is an engaging (click here) and highly sought after Middle East expert and pacesetter, often predicting trends and situations on the ground years before they occur. He is a Fox News Expert, advisor to the US Congress and the European Parliament and served as a senior advisor on national security foreign policy to presidential candidate Mitt Romney 2012. Dr Phares is the only expert/author who predicted the Arab Spring a year before it occurred in his pacesetting book, The Coming Revolution: Struggle for Freedom in the Middle East (Threshold, a division of Simon and Shuster 2010). Dr Phares holds an extensive CV and noteworthy achievements in the fields of academia, government strategies, media and publishing critical advice on combatting terrorism and countering jihadi radicalization both stateside and abroad.

...another member of the foreign policy advisory team, about an off the-record meeting between the Campaign and Russian government officials or with Papadopoulos's other Russia connections, Mifsud and Timofeev. 480 Papadopoulos also interacted directly with Clovis and Phares in connection with the summit of the Transatlantic Parliamentary Group on Counterterrorism (TAG) (click here), a group for which Phares was co-secretary general.481 On July 16, 2019 Papadopoulos attended the TAG summit in Washington, D.C., where he sat next to Clovis (as reflected in the photograph below).482

Footnote 473 6/1/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski (3:08:18 p.m.).
Footnote 474 6/1/16 Email, Lewandowski to Papadopoulos (3:20:03 p.m.); 6/1/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Clovis (3:29:14 p.m.).

Footnote 475 6/1/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Clovis (3:29:14 p.m.). Papadopoulos's email coincided in time with another message to Clovis  suggesting a Trump-Putin meeting. First, on May 15, 2016,
David Klein a distant relative of then-Trump Organization lawyer Jason Greenblatt  emailed Clovis about a potential Campaign meeting with Berel Lazar, the Chief Rabbi of Russia. The email stated that Klein had contacted Lazar in February about a possible Trump-Putin meeting and that Lazar was "a very close confidante of Putin." DJTFP00011547 (5/15/16 Email, Klein to Clovis (5:45:24 p.m.)). The investigation did not find evidence that Clovis responded to Klein's email or that any further contacts of significance came out of Klein's subsequent meeting with Greenblatt and Rabbi Lazar at Trump Tower. Klein 8/30/18 302, at 2.

Footnote 476 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense ,r 21 (a).
Footnote 477 
Footnote 478 6/19/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski (1 :11 :11 p.m.)
Footnote 479 6/19/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Lewandowski (1: 11: 11 p.m.).
Footnote 480 Papadopoulos Statement of Offense ,r 21; 7/14/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Timofeev (11 :57:24 p.m.); 7/15/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Mifsud; 7/27/16 Email, Papadopoulos to Mifsud (2:14:18 p.m.).
Footnote 481 Papadopoulos 9/19/17 302, at 16-1 7; 9th TAG Summit in Washington DC, Transatlantic Parliament Group on Counter Terrorism.
Footnote 482 9th TAG Summit in Washington DC, Transatlantic Parliament Group on Counter Terrorism. 

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