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tanyev

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8. Does anyone have Talking Points Memo Prime? Josh wrote a post about Simona's interview
Tue Jun 5, 2018, 07:21 PM
Jun 2018

called "What The F Is Going On Here?" that starts out very interesting, but the most interesting part is only available to those who have a subscription:

I’ve been poking around this morning and the George Papadopoulos/Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos situation is way, way weirder than I’d come close to realizing. As I noted this morning, for whatever reason the couple has now glommed on to Trump’s “spygate” conspiracy theory. As I noted, not only is this troubling. It doesn’t even add up in any obvious way in self-interested terms. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to a relative minor felony, lying to federal agents. With cooperation he should get a light sentence. Shifting gears and playing for an anti-Deep State pardon seems very hard to figure. But something else happened when I was listening to that interview last night.

Put simply, when I listening to Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos last night she didn’t sound like she’s Italian....


https://talkingpointsmemo.com/

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