I would submit that that dreadful murderous autocrat Putin did it so that the headline-his death was created - drawing attention to the issue, and then when everyone is paying attention so it can’t be buried you release the video showing that there really was a Five-eyes plot to overthrow Putin.
About George Papadopopopopopulous:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Papadopoulos
His credibility is justifiably in question. His self-serving guilty pleas made legal facts of events that were up until that point smears.
He did a lot of damage to President Trump.