She sporadically has lucid moments.
you are not The President, Fake or Real, Hillary.
just been reading the following today about Gianni Pittella, the Italian politician Papadopoulos met with when he was sent to Rome by the spooky Institute in London to meet Mifsud:
5 Nov 2017: Jon Worth Euroblog: Gianni Pittella and his “caro amico” Joseph Mifsud
The world has been asking themselves who the “mystery professor” Joseph Mifsud is. The British press – Byline and Carole Cadwalladr in The Guardian – have been connecting Mifsud to Alok Sharma and Boris Johnson...
Yet there is one Brussels politican who knows Mifsud very well. And no-one in EU circles seems to have woken up and noticed yet.
Gianni Pittella
The leader of the S&D Group in the European Parliament, and hence one of the most important and senior MEPs.
Pittella’s page on Wikipedia lists that he is a lecturer at the London Academy of Diplomacy (LAD), Mifsud’s outfit that was affiliated to the University of East Anglia and then the Univeristy of Stirling...
Pittella and Mifsud are both in the Diplomat Magazine piece about LAD. Pittella is listed as a “Visiting Professor” on the now deleted Stirling Uni page about LAD. Here is Pitella on a conference panel with Mifsud, and mentioned together with him at EMUNI. And here they are at a seminar at Link Campus Univerity too.
Pittella and Mifsud are both in the Diplomat Magazine piece about LAD. Pittella is listed as a “Visiting Professor” on the now deleted Stirling Uni page about LAD. Here is Pitella on a conference panel with Mifsud, and mentioned together with him at EMUNI. And here they are at a seminar at Link Campus Univerity too.
It is not only academic – Pittella has brought Mifsud campaigning with him – see this pic from a PD rally with him with Mifsud. There are tweets (one, two) with him and Mifsud...
And so why is this especially significant? Because Pittella went and campaigned for Clinton and attended the DNC in 2016. Him doing so was even written up in Time Magazine here...
But if a few meetings between Alok Sharma and one with Boris Johnson are of interest in the UK, surely a much closer relationship with Pittella ought to be of interest in Brussels. Who, I wonder, might now like to ask the questions to work all of this out?...
Politico vaguely looked into this issue in Thursday’s Playbook here (ARTICLE BELOW). Strikes me they – and the rest of the Brussels EU bubble media – ought to look a little more closely than that!
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https://jonworth.eu/gianni-pittella-caro-amico-joseph-mifsud/
1 Nov 2017: Politico: Brussels Playbook: Florian Eder’s must-read briefing on what’s driving the day in Brussels.
POLITICO Brussels Playbook, presented by Iberdrola: Puigdemont in Brussels — Professor Mifsud’s European connections — Slovak-Hungarian pipes
by Ryan Heath
PARLIAMENT — PROFESSOR MIFSUD’S EUROPEAN CONNECTIONS:
A former chief of staff to Michael Frendo, Malta’s Nationalist foreign minister from 2004 to 2008, Mifsud’s network extends to the highest levels of the European Parliament.
The professor was president of the Euro-Mediterranean University, a Slovenia-based institution founded in 2008 and backed by the European Parliament until 2012, when he was accused of having spent €39,332 in wrongly claimed expenses. According to the minutes of a meeting chaired by Socialist & Democrat leader Gianni Pittella in 2012, the Parliament was set to give the university €1 million, although Parliament spokespeople did not respond to a request for comment to confirm the payment had been made. Mifsud also could not be reached for comment but told the Telegraph: “I have a clear conscience.”
Mifsud and Pittella are friends: A spokesman for Pittella told Playbook’s Harry Cooper they are friends and that Mifsud had asked the Socialist leader to “give some lessons (gratis) to the London School of Diplomacy” — Mifsud’s place of employment as of March 2016, when he is said to have met Papadopoulos. “Never ever — never ever — Pittella had the impression or feedbacks on Mifsud’s possible interference between the U.S. and Russia,” the spokesman said.
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/brussels-playbook/politico-brussels-playbook-presented-by-iberdrola-puigdemont-in-brussels-professor-mifsuds-european-connections-slovak-hungarian-pipes/
2 Aug 2016: Politico: A new Hillary demographic: Europe’s center right
Politicians from across the European spectrum flock to the Democrats.
By Ryan Heath; Daniel Lippman contributed to this article.
PHILADELPHIA — The prospect of a Donald Trump presidency and the new look of the Republican party he now leads is causing some center-right European parties to rethink their political allegiances.
The shift was evident in the stark contrast in attendance by European politicians at the Democratic convention here in Philadelphia and those who went to the Republican gathering last week: In Cleveland only former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders and a few members of the European Conservatives and Reformists group could be found. In Philadelphia, there were representatives from a range of political groups, including center-right politicians who typically would have been more at home at a Republican convention...
“Historically I have definitely more of a Republican, at least on the economic side, but there’s no way I could convince myself to support someone like Donald Trump,” said Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander de Croo...
“My party normally goes to the Republican conference but this year we decided ‘no,’” said Esther de Lange, a Dutch MEP from the center-right Christian Democratic Appeal party (CDA).
De Lange’s Dutch compatriot, and political opponent, Hans van Baalen, president of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe party, said he used to support Ronald Reagan and John McCain over Democrats, but no longer. “The Republican Party has become a hostage of the Tea Party and the religious right,” van Baalen said. “The GOP is no longer the Grand Old Party of the past.”...
Gianni Pittella, leader of the Socialist group in the European Parliament, and Brando Benifei, a fellow Socialist and one of the youngest MEPs, were among those hoping to “Feel the Bern” in Philadelphia. Pittella even asked for a fan pic with Sanders, but by the end of the week urged Americans not to fall for Trump: “Europe needs the U.S. We need Hillary Clinton,” he told the International Leadership Forum in Philadelphia...
Away from the fray in Philadelphia, European politicians are lining up to support Clinton. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said he supports “a female candidate,” and his chief-of-staff Martin Selmayr has tweeted his horror at the thought of Donald Trump joining other populist leaders at G7 summits.
The speakers who left the biggest impression on European politicians here are Michelle and Barack Obama, in that order. Many expressed wonder at the poetry from the convention stage. Slovenian Socialist MEP Tanja Fajon was the first of many to tell POLITICO that her favorite moment was Michelle Obama saying “I wake up every morning in my house that was built by slaves,” while Van Baalen, the Dutch MEP, credits her with “saving the first day of the convention” after pro-Sanders protests threatened to derail it...
https://www.politico.eu/article/a-new-hillary-demographic-europes-center-right-clinton-democrat-nominee-donald-trump/