I agree with everything that you say with regard to this being a sting where bad information was fed by mifsud to Papa. What I do not understand is how Papa got caught in lies. He must be and have been quite naive to think that he would get away with Miss statements to the FBI.
He got caught in lies in a sting? - Mifsud was a Western asset?
Deeper questions are: If he was an asset, the sting was perpetrated on a rival political campaign based on what? What was the probable cause? They can’t even say it was the Steele Dossier, because didn’t this meeting occur even before the dossier BS was concocted?
What if Papa-D withdrew his plea and demanded discovery?...