George Papadopoulos doubts FBI was behind woman probing for Trump-Russia intelligence
Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos expressed doubt Saturday that the woman he met in London in September 2016 — who reportedly posed as an academic's assistant to try to seduce him and determine whether the Trump campaign had ties to Russia — was an FBI agent.
Papadopoulos' comments made to CNN's Michael Smerconish on Saturday come following reporting from the New York Times — published on Friday and citing people familiar with the operation — that said the woman he met in London two months before the 2016 presidential election was a federal investigator sent by the FBI to determine whether Trump's 2016 presidential campaign was working with Russia. Papadopoulos spent two weeks in prison for lying to federal investigators, an early charge in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
Papadopoulos said that when academic and FBI informant Stefan Halper — who he said he did not previously know — flew him to London under the guise of consulting work on the Middle East energy business, Halper arranged for Papadopoulos to go out for drinks with his assistant, a Turkish woman who he said was named Azra Turk.
"I was a little suspicious about it because I didn't have any understanding why I was meeting a different person, especially a Turkish national," Papadopoulos told Smerconish. "I mean that's why I disabused the claim that this was some sort of FBI agent."
The woman "barely spoke English, she was very flirty," Papadopoulos said, and probed on two subjects — his energy sector experience in the Middle East and "Trump and Russia."
Papadopoulos said the meeting was "bizarre" and fruitless because "of course there is no conspiracy, and I have never even met a Russian official in my life." He added that the woman did not offer him sex "overtly, but made it very clear that that was on the table if we continued to enjoy each other's company."
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Then why did you plead guilty dip shit?
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