Obstruction? Papadopoulos Lied To FBI To Protection Trump (ABC)

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Trump adviser claims he lied to FBI out of loyalty to Trump: Source

George Papadopoulos, the Trump foreign policy aide who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, initially misled agents out of what he claimed was loyalty to President Donald Trump, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.

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Trump had publicly denied that there had been any contact between his campaign and Russian officials, and Papadopoulos did not want to contradict the official line, the source said.

“It’s all fake news,” Trump said of any alleged connections in January. “It’s phony stuff. It didn’t happen.”

Papadopoulos met with the FBI agents investigating those alleged ties shortly thereafter, and he later acknowledged that he lied during that meeting about the timing of certain contacts.




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[L. Coyote]

1. Splash, splash, splash, time to move to higher ground.

Oh wait, we are on higher ground.

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[greeny2323]

2. Uh oh

It was really smart for Trump to call this cooperating witness a liar.

[dalton99a]

3. Definitely.

[Lee-Lee]

4. Here is a clue for anyone questioned by Federal authorities

When they ask you questions, if they ask you 25 questions they already know the answer to 24 of them.

They just want to see if you are going to be honest, give you lots of rope to hang yourself if you are not so they can have the charges from that to hold over you, and connect the dots with that last question they don’t know the answer to.