'Bigger than WATERGATE': Trump hails NYT report on FBI meeting with Papadopoulos
The White House on Friday seized on revelations that the FBI during the 2016 campaign sent an undercover investigator to meet with an aide to then-candidate Donald Trump, with the president calling the news "bigger than Watergate."
Trump praised one of his most frequent media foes, The New York Times, for its reporting, while his reelection campaign lit into investigators, and Vice President Mike Pence called the bureau's actions “very troubling.”
“Finally, Mainstream Media is getting involved - too 'hot' to avoid,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Pulitzer Prize anyone? The New York Times, on front page (finally), ‘Details effort to spy on Trump Campaign.’ @foxandfriends This is bigger than WATERGATE, but the reverse!”
At the heart of Trump’s claim is a Times report out Thursday that a woman, sent by the FBI, identified herself as an assistant to a Cambridge researcher when she met in London in 2016 with Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, who later pleaded guilty to making false statements to the bureau. The woman was sent as part of the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/bigger-than-watergate-trump-hails-nyt-report-on-fbi-meeting-with-papadopoulos/ar-AAAQUr3?li=BBnb7Kz
May I remind you Papadopoulos pleaded guilty. Trying to paint him as a victim now is not going to work.
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