For wife of former Trump adviser, a doctored passport photo stokes new questions

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Source: ABC News

For wife of former Trump adviser, a doctored passport photo stokes new questions

By Matthew Mosk and Kaitlyn Folmer
Oct 15, 2018, 8:18 PM ET

Last week, in an effort to beat back accusations that she has lied about her identity, Simona Mangiante provided ABC News with a photograph of her Italian passport.

But rather than quiet widespread speculation that the wife of the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was perhaps not who she presented herself to be, that passport photo has now raised more questions than it has answered.

Mangiante acknowledged on Monday that she altered the date of birth on the photograph to disguise her age. She now says she is 37, not 34, years old.

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Stedman was not the first to harbor doubts about Mangiante’s personal history. When federal investigators from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office charged her then-fiancé in October 2017, they also pulled her aside to ask her whether she spoke Russian or had ever traveled to Moscow. In the months that followed, especially when she became more vocal in public, she was asked repeatedly if she was concealing any ties to foreign intelligence outfits.

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[lapfog_1]

1. I wondered about that...

hopefully that all comes out now.

[RHMerriman]

2. Another example of impressively bad tradecraft...

Another example of impressively bad tradecraft...

Surprised she didn't chose "Mata Hari" or "Natasha Fatale" as her alias.

[AJT]

6. She came here to find moose and squirre,

but found Captain Wrongway Papadopoulos instead.

[RHMerriman]

27. My guess is she was paid to find him, but yeah...

My guess is she was paid to find him, but yeah...

[NBachers]

3. I've repeatedly clicked on the link, but I keep getting a "Page Unavailable" error message:

OOPS! PAGE UNAVAILABLE.
This page either does not exist or is currently unavailable.

From here you can either hit the "back" button on your browser to return to the previous page, or visit the ABCNews.com Home Page. You can also search for something on our site below.

[left-of-center2012]

4. your link doesn't work

[left-of-center2012]

5. working link

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wife-sentenced-trump-adviser-doctored-passport-photo-stokes/story?id=58519340

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Malchom Nance called her a Russian Agent.

[MontanaMama]

11. She's about as Italian as I am...

And, I’m not Italian. Not even a little bit.

[Wellstone ruled]

15. Nance claims she is from the Baltic area.

[Hekate]

22. In his line of work, I am sure he can pinpoint accents; but almost anyone can ID Italian...

Why use an alias so easily disproven by any investigative reporter or agent?

[getagrip_already]

8. ding-dong....

please come with us. Yes, you can call your husband later. Please turn around and.....

So much for her trying to get him to reject the pleaded deal.......

[Sanity Claws]

9. Her accent was not Italian

Glad to hear that this thread is being followed.

[iluvtennis]

10. Wow. One thing to claim you're younger than you really are, but to doctor ur photo

[brush]

16. It said she doctored the date of birth on the photo.

[iluvtennis]

23. OK, I read it wrong. thanks for clarifying.

[2naSalit]

12. Nobody in Europe

should have a reason to doctor a photo. They have one photo and they keep it over time so most are of the person when they are young and presentable. All the European passport photos I've ever seen were like portraits So a doctored photo would be highly suspicious I would imagine.

[SunSeeker]

13. The first time I saw her speak on TV I thought she was a Russian honey trap.

With weird bleached hair and the eastern European accent, only a clueless idiot would believe she's Italian. And Papadopoulos was just that idiot.

[Progressive Jones]

14. I grew up around many Italian immigrants. Most of my childhood friends were Italian immigrants.

I spent time in their homes. I knew their immigrant parents.
I know what an Italian accent sounds like. She does not have an Italian accent.

[SunSeeker]

19. I grew up around eastern European immigrants. She sounds like them. nt

[Hekate]

17. As soon as I heard her voice I blurted "Oh, another one from the Soviet Bloc!" After that...

...the media kept describing her as Italian, which confused me very much.

I am really glad that somebody is checking up -- good grief.

[SunSeeker]

21. She appears to have a Slovakia connection.

An archived version of the now deleted website for “International Child Abduction Slovakia” shows that Mangiante was indeed the spokeswoman, though the website wasn’t registered until October 2016, after Mangiante had already been in London.

https://medium.com/@ScottMStedman/simona-mangiante-papadopoulos-is-misleading-the-public-about-her-background-8d5f7504230d

[dalton99a]

18. More lies and deception about who she really is:

https://bit.ly/2CMM8Vw
Simona Mangiante-Papadopoulos is misleading the public about her background

[Scurrilous]

20. K&R

[NCjack]

24. Poor George. I hope Mueller quickly informs George of this. nt

[ck4829]

25. Kick

[kimbutgar]

26. She looks Russian and doesn't sound Italian in any way

[Sunlei]

28. I think "they" use their woman as courriers/messangers frequently- wasn't Mrs Trump

pictured "vacationing" ( atan Italian vila or was it copenhaven villa?) with Putins "girl friend" during the primary?



oh they're just old friends