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FM123

(10,053 posts)
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 10:15 AM Aug 2018

Papadopolous' Wife Wants Him To Scrap Deal With Mueller

Hmmm, why would she say this? Now?

Simona Mangiante, the wife of former President Trump campaign official George Papadopolous, reportedly wants her husband to stop cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller, according to MSNBC.

Mangiante told MSNBC on Thursday that she no longer trusts the government and that “shady individuals” with a “specific agenda” were “targeting” her husband.

“I trusted these institutions until they proved me wrong,” she said, adding there is “exculpatory evidence that fully justifies him to drop off his plea agreement.”

Papadopolous pleaded guilty in October 2017 to charges of lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russian officials and has been cooperating with Mueller’s team ever since. He is set to be sentenced next month.

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Papadopolous' Wife Wants Him To Scrap Deal With Mueller (Original Post) FM123 Aug 2018 OP
Suspicious manor321 Aug 2018 #1
I just found that Josh Marshall article, was only able to get a snip FM123 Aug 2018 #5
I don't trust anything she says or claims duforsure Aug 2018 #2
Do they speak to each other through the media??? C_U_L8R Aug 2018 #3
$15,000 a month sounds better, eh? GeorgeGist Aug 2018 #4
Mueller is supposed to give their recommendation today, according to (iirc) Rachel. OnDoutside Aug 2018 #6
Someone Should Remind Her That Maria Butina is currently behind bars Skraxx Aug 2018 #7
 

manor321

(3,344 posts)
1. Suspicious
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 10:19 AM
Aug 2018

As Josh Marshall as mentioned, she is suspicious herself, being introduced to Papadopolous by the now disappeared Mifsud. After they met, she later contacted Papadopolous through LinkedIn. Is she a Russian agent?

FM123

(10,053 posts)
5. I just found that Josh Marshall article, was only able to get a snip
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 12:27 PM
Aug 2018

"I’ve mentioned a few times that something does not seem quite right about Simona Mangiante, the wife of George Papadopoulos, a central figure in the Mueller probe as we currently understand it. It was a report about Papadopoulos’s drunken admissions about conversations with an alleged Russian intelligence asset named Joseph Mifsud that triggered the original Russian collusion probe. He pled to one charge of lying to government investigators late last year and became a cooperating witness. But a couple months ago, his wife, Mangiante began a press tour denying or appearing to recant on his behalf most of what he’d admitted to in his plea agreement. She made various claims that lined up with the general Fox News “deep state” conspiracy theories advanced by various Trump apologists."

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
2. I don't trust anything she says or claims
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 10:28 AM
Aug 2018

And have wondered all along if she too was planted from putin, the FSB, and russian thinks tanks plan to do this to our country by using many agents to infiltrate many area's ahead of their attacking us. Legally also she should know its highly unlikely he can change his plea now.

C_U_L8R

(45,004 posts)
3. Do they speak to each other through the media???
Fri Aug 17, 2018, 10:33 AM
Aug 2018

Either do or don't... but please stop with the publicity tour

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