I just finished watching the two Rudy Giuliani interviews with George Papadopoulus - his last two episodes.
Very interesting - it sounds like a really bad spy movie. I am serious about that - if this is our “A” team of spies we are screwed.
George says he believes the Durham investigation is centered on Joseph Mifsud. Pretty obvious set-up.
Said the special counsel lawyers wanted him to compose against Trump and he was also threatened with the Logan Act and then they told him he was a spy for Israel.
Pretty bizarre stuff. His answer in the 2nd one about his 11 day sentence in club fed was pretty funny. They interviewed him for 20 hours. 20 hours! Crazy.
Rudy did not ask him about the 10k he was given overseas and I was disappointed in that. That one still burns me. They basically detained him for no reason in violation of his civil rights. Searched him, but he does not have the money. They should have let him go then but they did a criminal complaint (pretty rare for fed investigations) instead?
Ludicrous. This guy got royally screwed over and I hope DOJ goes back and changes this.
I understand it, he was a young, ambitious guy who wanted to make a mark like a gazillion young and ambitious guys before him, but the rabbit hole he found himself going down was just bizarre. He made mistakes such as erasing his Facebook account when he came to the conclusion that someone DID have knives out for him.
I can easily see him being plied by sexy honey pots (Azra Turk and the mysterious "niece" of Putin) being pushed his way by the likes of Halper and Mifsud. And I can see that sweaty, obese, POS Halper setting up a meeting with him and sitting across the table, sliding his phone as a recording device closer to him as he says "“You know about hacking the emails from Russia, right?"
But the effort that really made me see the desperation in the collaborators trying to set him up was his trip to Greece where he agreed to meet with a guy in Israel who gave him a $10K retainer fee for future work. Papdopoulos took that cash back to Greece where he did one of the more intelligent things and gave it to a Greek lawyer for safekeeping before returning to the USA.
Outlined in this excellent article: The Strange Flight of George Papdopoulos
When he landed in the US on July 27, 2017, he was arrested by two FBI agents for "probable cause". Dan Bongino has covered this in great detail on his show, and I agree completely about the fishiness of it.
The agents were nearly panicked and sweating as they rummaged through his luggage and belongings, looking for something, and clearly flustered when they didn't find it. I have no doubt they were looking for that $10K in cash, because that is the monetary limit that must be declared under penalty of law, and he didn't declare it.
Additionally, Dan Bongino makes the case from personal experience that FBI agents, making a Probable Cause arrest, at night, on a weekend, on short notice is so unusual as to be non-existent. But they did it for George Papadopoulos.