The Rise of George Papadopoulos, a Trump Adviser Who May Kill Trump's Presidency
The Rise of George Papadopoulos, a Trump Adviser Who May Kill Trump’s Presidency
The former Trump campaign aide was unmemorable in high school and a bad student in college. Now he’s a central figure in the Russia probe.
LACHLAN MARKAY, ASAWIN SUEBSAENG, SAM STEIN Daily Beast 11.01.17 9:15 PM ET
The most remarkable thing about George Papadopoulos, the former Trump campaign aide who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with Russians during the course of the 2016 campaign, is that he managed to get to this point at all.
By all accounts, the 30-year-old Papadopoulos was unmemorable in virtually all chapters of his life. High school classmates don’t recall him. College professors say he was a below-average student. Peers in Washington, D.C., describe him as unremarkable, and many senior colleagues on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign thought he was a hanger-on.
And yet Papadopoulos now finds himself squarely in the middle of the most remarkable political scandal of a generation. He is an avatar of the Trump era: someone with scant (if any) connections to established circles who rose to unfathomable heights through self-promotion and opportunistic timing. Only this particular bit character may now bring down a president.
Those who have crossed his path are practically floored by it all.
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