Papadopoulos Furiously Spins Tale Of Deep State Victimhood
By Josh Kovensky
October 30, 2018 3:00 pm
George Papadopoulos’s ability to talk his way into and out of any situation is enough to make even Donald Trump blush.
In the latest episode of the Papadopoulos saga, the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser and erstwhile coffee boy has taken to Fox News and Twitter in an effort to promote himself as the victim of a global spy conspiracy.
“I have been sentenced to prison in our country while having exculpatory evidence hidden from me,” he wrote in a late Oct. 29 tweet. “If I knew what I knew today, I would never have plead [sic] guilty.”
In appearances on Fox & Friends and Tucker Carlson Tonight, Papadopoulos has laid out a narrative in which he was duped by malicious prosecutors into pleading guilty as part of a larger conspiracy by former Obama officials who were trying to thwart an east Mediterranean gas project that he was working on.
Joseph Moreno, a former federal prosecutor at Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft law firm, told TPM that Papadopoulos’s statements about withdrawing from the deal were likely a bluff. “I’ve never seen that happen,” he said. “I think it’s more of a public relations effort than a legal effort.”
Walking away from the plea deal would mean that prosecutors could use his admissions in court against him.
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