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Mon Nov 6, 2017, 03:36 PM Nov 2017

The Conspicuous Gap In Muellers Case Against Trump Adviser Papadopoulos

Lots of plausible reasons for the gap given in this article.




The Conspicuous Gap In Mueller’s Case Against Trump Adviser Papadopoulos

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/mueller-papdopoulos-timeline-wikileaks-emails

By Tierney Sneed Published November 5, 2017 9:44 pm


Almost as striking as the details Special Counsel Robert Mueller lays out about a Trump campaign adviser’s Russia-related communications is the conspicuous gap in the timeline offered in the recently unsealed court documents.

For more than three months, starting in March 2016, George Papadopoulos communicated regularly — on occasion, multiple times a week — with three figures who presented themselves as connected to the Russian government, according to the court filings.

But the timeline laid out in the filings by prosecutors comes to an abrupt halt on July 22, 2016.

That is the day Wikileaks began publishing the hacked Democratic National Committee emails...............



....................However, Papadopoulos told the Wall Street Journal in April that his involvement extended through the transition.

The statement of offense itself sent a signal that there was more to the Papadopoulos story than the court documents were telling.

“[The statement] does not include all of the facts known to me regarding this offense,” Papadopoulos conceded.

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