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Undated: George Demetrios Papadopoulos[2] (born August 19, 1987) is a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. On October 5, 2017, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents about the timing and the possible significance of his contacts in 2016 relating to U.S.-Russia relations and the Donald Trump presidential campaign. He has served time in federal prison and is currently on a 12-month supervised release.[5] During his supervised release from prison he is participating in a docuseries.[6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Papadopoulos

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October 5:  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

United States of America v. George Papadopoulos
https://www.justice.gov/file/1007346/download

October 30: How important was George Papadopoulos on Donald Trump's foreign-policy team?

Determining how important Papadopoulos was on the Trump team is open to interpretation, so we won’t put this argument to the Truth-O-Meter. But we thought it would be worthwhile to lay out the evidence, so that readers can make a more informed judgment.

[However] On March 31 [for example], Trump tweeted out a photograph of himself leading a meeting of his foreign policy team. The photograph -- labeled "National Security Meeting" and with the hashtag "#MakeAmericaGreatAgain" -- features future Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Trump at opposite ends of the table, apparently joined by other officials cited in the Post and Los Angeles Times stories, including Papadopoulos, the second person away from Sessions on the far side of the table.

We didn’t find any substance from the meeting released the day it happened, but according to materials released by special counsel Robert Mueller's office, when Papadopoulos "introduced himself to the group, he stated, in sum and substance, that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin."
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2017/oct/30/how-important-was-george-papadopoulos-donald-trump/

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October 30: Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the FBI agents in Mueller probe
https://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-pol-essential-washington-updates-former-trump-campaign-aide-george-1509374196-htmlstory.html

October 31: Donald Trump tweets dismiss George Papadopoulos as 'low level volunteer'
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/31/donald-trump-george-papadopoulos-tweets-low-level-volunteer

November 10: Donald Trump moved to distance himself from George Papadopoulos after his former campaign adviser—a “young, low level volunteer,” according to the president—pleaded guilty to lying to the F.B.I. about his contact with Russians. But as Robert Mueller grills each of Trump’s campaign allies and associates, one by one, as part of his sprawling inquest into the question of collusion, the administration’s veneer of professed ignorance is beginning to crack. For the past two weeks, the White House has sought to portray Papadopoulos as something of a rogue agent, flying off to Europe to rendezvous with Russian intermediaries of his own accord. But on Friday, a source with direct knowledge of the Justice Department investigation told ABC News that Papadopoulos himself had hinted at a more damning explanation for misleading federal agents: he was trying to protect Trump.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/11/papadopoulos-lied-to-fbi-about-russia-to-protect-trump

December 8: Papadopoulos' fiancée counters claim he was just a 'coffee boy'

The fiancée of George Papadopoulos told ABC News that her soon-to-be husband was not the low-level volunteer at the Trump campaign that others have painted him as, countering that Papadopoulos was “constantly in touch with high-level officials in the campaign.”

She said Papadopoulos will instead be remembered as “the first domino in the Russia investigation.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/08/george-papadopoulos-fiancee-interview-287137

December 30: During a night of heavy drinking at an upscale London bar in May 2016, George Papadopoulos, a young foreign policy adviser to the Trump campaign, made a startling revelation to Australia’s top diplomat in Britain: Russia had political dirt on Hillary Clinton. About three weeks earlier, Mr. Papadopoulos had been told that Moscow had thousands of emails that would embarrass Mrs. Clinton, apparently stolen in an effort to try to damage her campaign…. Two months later, when leaked Democratic emails began appearing online, Australian officials passed the information about Mr. Papadopoulos to their American counterparts.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/12/a-drunken-trump-aide-kicked-off-the-fbis-trump-russia-investigation/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIoemO0OCd4AIVIx-tBh0tHA63EAMYAiAAEgJFUPD_BwE

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January 18: The boss, the boyfriend and the FBI: the Italian woman in the eye of the Trump-Russia inquiry

Simona Mangiante, the girlfriend of ex-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, also worked for a mysterious Russia-linked Maltese professor.

In an interview with the Guardian in Rome, Mangiante declined to get into specifics about what exactly the FBI asked in the two-and-a-half-hour interrogation, or any of the details of Papadopoulos’s ongoing discussions with federal agents.

But she did shed new light on the mystery man who has emerged as a central figure in the Trump investigation: Joseph Mifsud, the Maltese professor who is not mentioned by name in the Papadopoulos indictment – but who prosecutors have alleged was a key middleman between the foreign policy aide and top Russian officials.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/18/simona-mangiante-trump-russia-joseph-mifsud-george-papadopoulos

February 2: George Papadopoulos, Not Steele Dossier, Triggered Investigation into Trump Campaign: Nunes Memo

... the memo's final paragraph admits that federal law enforcement's probe into the Trump campaign's ties to Russia was triggered by a different loud-mouthed campaign adviser rather than the controversial Steele dossier.
http://www.newsweek.com/nunes-memo-george-papadopoulos-carter-page-donald-trump-798739

February 5: Devin Nunes: Trump never met with Papadopoulos. Reality: here’s a photo.

An astonishingly brazen lie.

Rep. Devin Nunes is the author of a newly declassified document falsely insinuating the FBI misused US surveillance law to go after President Trump under the pretext of investigating Russia. On Monday morning, Nunes went on Fox & Friends, the president’s favorite TV show, to discuss Trump’s alleged persecution — and told a lie so brazen that there’s photographic proof of its wrongness.

The lie concerned George Papadopoulos, the Trump campaign’s foreign policy adviser who pled guilty to lying to the FBI last year and became a major witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation. According to Nunes, Papadopoulos was a completely marginal figure in Trump world. So unimportant, in fact, that Trump never met with him.

“As far as we can tell, Papadopoulos never even knew who Trump was — never even met with the president,” Nunes said.
https://www.vox.com/world/2018/2/5/16973936/nunes-memo-trump-george-papadopoulos

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March 23: When a Russian news agency reached out to George Papadopoulos to request an interview shortly before the 2016 election, the young adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump made sure to seek approval from campaign headquarters.

"You should do it," deputy communications director Bryan Lanza urged Papadopoulos in a September 2016 email, emphasizing the benefits of a U.S. "partnership with Russia."

The exchange was a sign that Papadopoulos — who pushed the Trump operation to meet with Russian officials — had the campaign’s blessing for some of his foreign outreach.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/-You-should-do-it-Trump-officials-encouraged-George-Papadopoulos-foreign-outreach-documents-show_166673366

March 25: Trump officials encouraged George Papadopoulos to build 'partnership with Russia' with TV interview, emails reveal

Administration have sought to paint 30-year-old as low level volunteer whose outreach to nation was not authorised, new evidence shows otherwise
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/george-papadopoulos-latest-you-should-do-it-donald-trump-russia-investigation-bryan-lanza-emails-a8272866.html

Undated: In March 2016, shortly after Papadopoulos was named as a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, Mifsud met Papadopoulos in Rome. They later met in London, where Mifsud allegedly introduced Papadopoulos to a Russian woman that he falsely claimed was Putin's niece; Mifsud has denied the report.[6][12] At a meeting in April, Mifsud told Papadopoulos that he had learned the Russians were in possession of thousands of emails that were damaging to Hillary Clinton. Papadopoulos allegedly repeated the information to an Australian diplomat in London, Alexander Downer, who later reported to American authorities that Papadopoulos had apparently known about Russia's theft of emails from Democratic sources before it was publicly reported. Papopoulos has since publicly denied any recollection of this topic with Downer. The FBI then launched an investigation into possible connections between Russia and the Trump campaign.[16]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Mifsud

April 2: On Thursday at a Chicago nightclub, Papadopoulos had some drinks and, in a conversation with a new acquaintance, allegedly made new and explosive claims about Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Papadopoulos, according to this new acquaintance, said that Sessions was well aware of the contact between Papadopoulos and Joseph Mifsud, an academic from Malta with high-level connections in Russia. Papadopoulos’ indictment revealed that Mifsud had told Papadopoulos that the Russians had “‘dirt’ on then-candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of ‘thousands of emails.'”

Jason Wilson, a computer engineer who lives in Chicago, told ThinkProgress that Papadopoulos said during their conversation that “Sessions encouraged me” to find out anything he could about the hacked Hillary Clinton emails that Mifsud had mentioned.
https://thinkprogress.org/george-papadopoulos-new-claim-jeff-sessions-chicago-nightclub-da653988529c/

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June 5: George Papadopoulos’ Wife Asks Trump To Pardon Her Husband

Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos told Fox News that her husband “never had any interactions with Russians.”

George Papadopoulos was arrested last July and later pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents about contacts he’d had with individuals with close ties to the Russian government. These included communications with Russian national Ivan Timofeev, director at the Russian International Affairs Council, and with Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor who’d told Papadapoulos that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, reported The New York Times.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller indicated late last month that he was ready to proceed with Papadopoulos’ sentencing. The former campaign aide faces a maximum sentence of five years behind bars. Prosecutors have agreed, however, to seek a lower sentence of zero to six months in return for his cooperation with the investigation. 
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-papadopoulos-trump-pardon-simona-mangiante_us_5b161bb8e4b093ac33a125d3

September 1: George Papadopoulos: Trump 'nodded' at suggestion of Putin meeting
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2018/09/01/george-papadopoulos-trump-nodded-at-suggestion-of-putin-meeting/23514333/

September 8: President Donald Trump on Friday mocked the two-week prison sentence given to former campaign adviser George Papadopoulos who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with Russian operatives before the 2016 election, despite declaring hours earlier: "I don't know him."

Papadopoulos, who was sentenced to 14 days in jail, is the first Trump adviser to be sentenced as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and potential collusion between the Kremlin and the campaign.

Shortly after his sentence, the President weighed in on Twitter: "14 days for $28 MILLION - $2 MILLION a day, No Collusion. A great day for America!" 

He did not elaborate on the $28 million price tag he cited, though it appeared to be about the cost of Mueller's investigation. Even that, however, is incorrect. The Justice Department has spent at least $17 million investigating Russian meddling, but government estimates have shown that Mueller's team specifically has only spent about $7.7 million.

But the tweet illustrated how closely the President and his team were following the sentencing hearing today in Washington. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Friday afternoon, Trump distanced himself from Papadopoulos.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/trump-papadopoulos-sentence/index.html


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October 24: George Papadopoulos Hopes to Fuel Republicans’ Suspicions About the Russia Probe

The former Trump campaign aide who has pleaded guilty will say in House testimony Thursday that the FBI and British intelligence worked to deter President Trump’s election effort.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/10/george-papadopoulos-thinks-fbi-sabotaged-trump-campaign/573781/

October 26: Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos may try to withdraw guilty plea

In an interview Friday on "Fox & Friends," Papadopoulos said he learned new information Thursday when he spoke to congressional investigators that he "can't publicly disclose."

Because of that, Papadopoulos said he's "considering withdrawing my agreement I have come to with the government."

CBS News also confirmed a report by The Atlantic that Papadopoulos has requested immunity in order to testify before the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, according to a source familiar with the negotiations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-trump-campaign-adviser-george-papadopoulos-may-try-to-withdraw-guilty-plea/

November 25: Judge denies move to avoid prison by former Trump aide George Papadopoulos
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/special-counsel-moves-enforce-jail-term-trump-aide/story?id=59341456

November 25: Former Trump aide George Papadopoulos to head to jail Monday

Papadopoulos is the young aide whose 2016 barroom conversation with an Australian diplomat launched the U.S. investigation into Russian interference in the presidential election.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/former-trump-aide-george-papadopoulos-tp-head-jail-monday-n939816

November 28: Investigators are probing a letter that claims George Papadopoulos said he was pursuing a lucrative Russian business deal for himself and Trump after the election
https://www.businessinsider.com/fbi-congress-investigate-george-papadopoulos-letter-trump-russia-business-deal-2018-11

December 14: Fresh Out of Prison, George Papadopoulos Says He’s Running for Congress

Papadopoulos, one of the first in President Donald Trump’s orbit to fall under special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, pleaded guilty last year for lying to the FBI. He was released from a Wisconsin prison on Dec. 7 after serving 12 days of his two-week sentence.

Fresh out of jail, Papadopoulos is probably more well-known for his prison sentence than his political platform, but the 32-year-old reportedly hopes to be on a ballot [in 2020] in the Orange County area—a historically red portion of California that swung blue in the 2018 midterms.
http://fortune.com/2018/12/14/george-papadopoulos-congress-run/


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January 30: George Papadopoulos joins pro-Trump pot company after stint in prison for lying in Mueller probe
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/30/ex-trump-aide-mueller-target-papadopoulos-joins-pot-board-after-jail.html







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