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By Josh Marshall | June 5, 2018 9:14 am
So much news emerged overnight that Im not sure how much attention will get focused on this odd development in the George Papadopoulos case. Let me address it briefly. We knew little about George Papadopoulos until last October when his plea deal with the Special Counsels office revealed that he was a key point of contact with Russian operatives during the 2016 campaign. Later we learned that his inebriated discussion with an Australian diplomat was the trigger that launched the Russia probe in July of 2016. He made a deal, has been cooperating and recently the Special Counsels office filed court papers signaling hes likely completed his cooperation and is ready for sentencing. All of this is what youd expect for a cooperating witness. But last night, Papadopouloss wife was on Fox asking President Trump for a pardon and seemingly claiming that George had been set up.
Now, it goes without saying that these are two different people, George Papadopoulos and his wife Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos. In practice though its hard to believe shed go public with something so dramatically different from what hes saying and what would seem to be his legal interests. Remember, the Special Counsels office still has the hammer of sentencing hanging over him. By any normal logic, hes in no position to antagonize them.
What got attention last night was Mangiante basically begging for a pardon for her husband. But what got my attention was a bit different. Far from the posture one normally expects from a cooperating witness, Mangiante was essentially claiming her husband had been set up by the FBI and indeed that more evidence of FBI spying on her husband and the campaign was still to emerge. In the past, Mangiante had gone so far as to claim her husband would emerge as the John Dean of the Russia scandal, basically implying that he was the inside player whose testimony would prove the undoing of the President. In this video, before she asks Trump for a pardon, she rather unconvincingly explains that she never meant John Dean in the sense that the President had done anything wrong.
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In other parts of the interview, Mangiante could have been reading almost verbatim from recent articles in The Daily Caller or Breitbart.
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Mc Mike
(9,118 posts)I'm very surprised, considering the company she and her 'hubby' keep.
MontanaMama
(23,369 posts)for being a mere coffee boy?
Tarc
(10,478 posts)The tangled web of Trumpkins to Russia is mind-boggling.
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)rickford66
(5,536 posts)He was probably a Russian spy and she was secretly working as a spy with him. The whole thing will be explained in the Oliver Stone movie. Hey, is he related to Roger Stone ? It's getting deep in the deep state.