BIG Stuff in the Papadopolous Plea Deal - Josh Marshall

[DonViejo]

By JOSH MARSHALL Published OCTOBER 30, 2017 4:03 PM

Here are some other points to note in the Papadopolous plea deal …

1. In April, the Trump campaign knew that intermediaries from the Russian government that the Russians had “dirt” on Secretary Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.” Those were almost certainly references to emails later released through Wikileaks in the second half of the year. Papadopolous and the campaign colleagues he spoke with about his conversations may not have known precisely that they had DNC emails and emails from John Podesta. But they would have realized what was happening once those emails emerged in July through October. They must have wondered: why would Russian agents have emails incriminating Hillary Clinton? The entirety of the exchanges has a deep similarity to the Trump Tower meeting with Trump Jr. on June 8th – just extended over a much longer period of time. They knew. They were looped deep into what Russia was doing.

2. There’s a key passage in the Papadopolous plea agreement that I don’t think has gotten a lot of attention yet.



Here’s a tweet from President Trump with an image from that meeting. You’ll see President Trump is there. Now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions is there. Papadopolous is the second man in a clockwise direction from Sessions in the lower left.

Link to tweet

With Trump and Sessions there, according to the plea, Papadopolous told the group “he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin.” That’s not against the law in itself. It is bizarre to think that a presidential candidate would travel abroad to meet with the President of Russia during a campaign. But there’s no law against it. This is a key fact because Papadopolous seems to have given a little speech about what he was up to and what he could do in a small meeting with Trump and Sessions themselves. This happened one week after Papadopolous had met in London with as yet unnamed people who he knew had close ties with the Russian government. This is very significant.

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. The reason the traitorous piece of shit would ask Russia on natl TV to commit espionage against

our country, which he did, is dumbshit did not then NOR does he now know it is illegal to do that and he wont understand why it would be.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Mueller has already read all the emails, etc.from Papa

and most of the evidence against Manafort is in documents and that is a very strong case so this is not good for the moron. Mueller obviously has most of the moron's personal and business/financial documents too by now. It is his secret investments and dates that will get him and that "red line" will be crossed by Mueller.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Don't forget that some of these players had FISA warrants on them

so calls were intercepted as well.

[Achilleaze]

3. frigging republican TreasonWeasels

Lock them up. Comrade Casino, republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, obviously was ass-deep in treason against America from the very git go. Lock him up.

[Gothmog]

4. Collusion will not be hard to prove

[L. Coyote]

5. Was this meeting recorded by law enforcement?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Many Are GUILTY Again. One already on public record. tRump bin channeling 70s & Nixon. . . nt

[OnDoutside]

7. Is that Priebus sitting next to Sessions (on his right) ?

[ffr]

8. check! You're move Dotard.