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Is Papadopoulous Greek for smoking gun?

Papadopoulos statement shows Mueller's team working carefully, and Trump's team acting poorly

6 March — George Papadopoulos learns that he will be made an official foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign. He also learns, from someone who is a “supervisor” in the campaign, that a focus of the Trump campaign is on an “improved relationship with Russia.”

19 March — Clinton adviser John Podesta’s GMail account hacked.

24 March — Papadopoulos meets with a Russia-connected professor and a Russian female that he believes to be an agent of the Kremlin. Following this meeting, Papadopoulos emails both the “campaign supervisor” and “other members” of the campaign and tells them about his meeting, describing it as an effort to arrange a meeting “between us and Russian officials.” The campaign supervisor responds that he will work on it, and tells Papadopoulos “Great work.”

31 March — Papadopoulos attends a “national security meeting” with Donald Trump and informs Trump that he has contacts to arrange a meeting between Trump and Russian leadership.

26 April — Papadopoulos meets with professor who tells him the Russian’s have “thousands of emails” containing “dirt” on Hillary Clinton that would be useful to the Trump campaign.

3 June — Rob Goldstone emails Donald Trump Jr to inform him that the Russians have “dirt” on Hillary Clinton as part of a program to help Donald Trump.

9 June — Russian officials and Trump’s senior campaign staff meet in Trump Tower.

1 July — Papadopoulos emails a "High Ranking Official” in the campaign, and asks what to do about a potential trip to Russia. He’s referred back to the "Campaign Supervisor.” Campaign officials pass around a note saying they should send someone “low level” in the campaign so as “not to send any signal.”

27 July — Donald Trump issues a plea to Russians to steal Hillary Clinton’s email.

 

Some catnip:

Did George Papadopoulos wear a wire for Mueller? - Hot Air

 

Something’s wrong. I don’t see HILLARY!!!! anywhere in that.

This is serious stuff. And sounds like tbe tip of the iceberg.

 

I assume this was posted already.


Sources: Podesta Group, Mercury are companies 'A' and 'B' in indictment

 

Mercury Group is former Republican congressman Vin Weber's shop

Really illustrative of how the swamp works. If you really want something done, you've got to pay/play both sides

 

Good thread here by Gellman.

 

My brother in the DC area is a high-level energy (mostly utilities) industry consultant. In his office desk drawer he had two pictures, one of GW Bush, one of Obama. Meeting with a Republican, out comes the Bush picture on his desk. Meeting with a Democrat, well, you guessed it.

 

Even the Papadopolous stuff isn't new. We knew all of this. There have been so many smoking guns that we've become almost desensitized to it.

All that has changed is that somebody with some degree of power finally cares more about the country than the laundry.

 

Have seen multiple blog posts and tweets today suggesting that the Papadopoulos time line (arrest in July, plea deal in October) and the language of the court filing indicate he was wearing a wire for Mueller for months. Huge if true, as they say.

 

Not strange for cases to be sealed, so they could be unrelated cases.

 

Six posts above yours.