Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos repeatedly denies possible collusion in long-awaited report from Special Counsel John Durham long before FBI launches disastrous investigation of President Trump and Russia After it became clear that he was doing it, he raised his voice.
Durham’s report last week said the FBI had launched a long-running “Crossfire Hurricane” investigation into alleged collusion between former President Trump and the Kremlin based on “raw, unanalyzed and uncorroborated information” that ” It reflects a marked deviation from the way the investigation was conducted.” He addressed earlier issues regarding possible foreign election interference plots aimed at the Clinton campaign. ”
Durham said on page 252 of the report that the FBI documented meetings between Papadopoulos and secret agents, and that Papadopoulos repeatedly denied Russian aid to the Trump campaign, calling such activity “illegal” and ” claimed to be guilty of treason.
Papadopoulos has also repeatedly denied his campaign’s involvement in the WikiLeaks revelations about hacked Democratic National Committee emails, a statement that was dismissed as “strange” and a “rehearsal,” the report said. there is Therefore, according to Durham’s report, his denial of collusion was not included in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant application to monitor former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.
Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos left the federal district court after a sentencing hearing in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 7, 2018. (Photo credit: Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images)
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Papadopoulos told Fox News Digital that the revelations in the report were “a prime example of the problems surrounding the FBI leadership in 2016, and it continues today.”
“You have a ‘target’, I declare that any manipulation or ‘collusion’ with Russia is treason, but I have no idea what this informant is saying. But this and other innocence information has been deliberately withheld,” Papadopoulos said. Told.
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, on April 27, 2023. ((Photo credit: Spencer Pratt/Getty Images))
“As Mr Durham has made clear, there is absolutely no basis for an investigation, much less for a continuation,” he added.
Durham said in the report that “the exclusion of Papadopoulos’ remarks in the Page FISA application may have been sufficient to satisfy the negligence standard,” but “was not sufficient to bring criminal charges against the FBI or FBI officials.” claimed.
Special Counsel John Durham departs after the day’s trial adjourned May 25, 2022 at the US District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington, DC. (Photo credit: Ron Sachs/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images)
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Papadopoulos appeared on “Fox News Tonight”, praising Durham’s report as a “grave indictment” against U.S. intelligence and telling host Will Kane that years of evidence had been unfounded. He said he had to “scratch his head” over the country’s suffering over alleged Trump-Russia collusion. .
“I’m ecstatic,” he said. “My wife and I are celebrating all day today because it has not only hurt my image, it has also hurt the image of my wife who has been by my side throughout this entire story. So I’m a very lucky man’. ”
