Papadopoulos plea includes more evidence that Sessions lied under oath

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Al Frankin needs to get him into a hearing once again!!!



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Jeff Sessions reportedly shut down the idea of a Trump-Putin meeting. There’s just one problem.
Papadopoulos plea includes more evidence that Sessions lied under oath.
Aaron Rupar
Nov 1, 2017, 12:06 pm

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..........................Both CNN and the New York Times report that Sessions played a key role in nixing the proposed meeting. On Wednesday, CNN reported that Sessions “shut down the idea” after Papadopoulos pitched it during the March 2016 meeting — a get-together Trump proudly highlighted on Twitter.

Citing “a person in the room,” CNN reports that the Putin-Trump meeting idea was “raised by George Papadopoulos as he introduced himself.” Papadopoulos, who Trump name-dropped as one of his foreign policy advisers just days earlier, told the group “that he had connections that could help arrange a meeting between then-candidate Trump and President Putin,” according to details of his guilty plea made public this week. The timeline laid out in the plea agreement indicates Papadopoulos had just returned from Europe, where he had met with a Kremlin-connected professor who took an interest in him because of his role with the Trump campaign.
IN THIS PHOTO FROM TRUMP'S TWITTER ACCOUNT, Papadopoulos CAN BE SEEN SITTING FOUR SPOTS TO TRUMP'S RIGHT. (CREDIT: TWITTER)
Last year, Trump praised him as an ‘excellent guy.’ But now he’s just a ‘young, low level liar.’

Team Trump’s clumsy efforts to distance themselves from George Papadopoulos.

CNN’s latest reporting tracks the account of the March 2016 meeting contained in a New York Times report published on Tuesday.

The Times, citing an interview with a Trump campaign aide who were in the room for that March 2016 meeting, reports that Trump listened as Papadopoulos proposed the meeting with Putin and even asked questions. But then Sessions, “as the campaign’s top national security official, spoke vehemently against the idea, asking others not to discuss it again. Mr. Trump did not challenge him, the former aide said.”
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Regardless of whether or not reports about Sessions’ role during that meeting are accurate, Papadopoulos’ guilty plea, along with the CNN and Times reports, indicates he knew campaign surrogates were in communication with Russian officials. Recall, however, that Sessions denied having such knowledge during his testimony to Congress............................

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The inconsistency between Sessions’ testimony and what we now know about the Trump campaign’s contact with Russia is particularly problematic for the attorney general, given that he was under oath. But the sequence of events detailed in Papadopoulos’ guilty plea — events further detailed by CNN and the Times — also pose problems for Trump..........................

[MontanaMama]

1. Didn't we hear that the evil elf

had lunch with Dotard on Mueller Monday? What would you give to have been a fly in that wall?

[Wellstone ruled]

3. There should be some type of noise

sometime today. The leaks will tell the story.

[riversedge]

5. Yes, they all had a meet up.

[Thomas Hurt]

2. Sure, this George dude.....

just wandered into the campaign found a desk, traveled to Europe on his own dime and sought out contacts with Russia without being ask.............(wink,wink)

[Madam45for2923]

4. Gosh yeah!