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Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Trump, Russia and dirt on Clinton
Trump aide told Australian diplomat Russia had dirt on Clinton – report
George Papadopoulos spoke to high commissioner Alexander Downer at
London bar in May 2016, catalyzing FBI investigation, New York Times
reportsGeorge Papadopoulos in London. US officials told the NYT it was
Papadopoulos’s revelation, not the infamous Steele dossier, that lead to
Russia inquiry.
The FBI reportedly launched its investigation into Russian meddling
in the 2016 US election after George Papadopoulos, then a foreign policy
adviser to Donald Trump, told an Australian diplomat that Moscow had damaging information about Hillary Clinton.
According to a report published by the New York Times on Saturday, Papadopoulos made the revelation to Alexander Downer,
the Australian high commissioner to the UK, “during a night of heavy
drinking” at the Kensington Wine Rooms in London in May 2016. Papadopoulos reportedly told Downer that Russian officials possessed thousands of emails that could harm Clinton’s candidacy. Australia is part of the “Five Eyes”
intelligence alliance, with the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand. When
WikiLeaks began publishing hacked emails from Democratic officials two
months later, Australian officials passed the information to their US
counterparts, the Times report stated. The FBI then began its
investigation. A White House lawyer, Ty Cobb, declined to comment, saying in a
statement that the administration was continuing to cooperate with the
investigation now led by the special counsel Robert Mueller “to help
complete their inquiry expeditiously”. In October, Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the nature of his communications with the Russians. He is said to have been cooperating since July with Mueller, who was appointed in May to oversee the federal inquiry into links between Trump and Russia. The White House has sought to portray Papadopoulos as a low-level
staffer whose contacts with the Russians were made independently. The
Times report said court documents showed Papadopoulos repeatedly tried
to coordinate a meeting between Trump and the Russian president,
Vladimir Putin, and notified senior campaign officials of his efforts. The Times report comes as Republicans have escalated their attacks on
the independence of Mueller’s investigation, zeroing in on the FBI’s
use of a dossier regarding links between Trump and Russia compiled by a former British spy, Christopher Steele. Quick guide
What are the dangers for Trump from the Russia investigations?
The dossier grew out of a commission by a conservative website
to Steele’s firm, Fusion GPS, for opposition research during the
Republican primary. It was later funded by the Democratic National
Committee and the Clinton campaign. The NYT report stated that Steele was interviewed by the FBI in
October 2016, three months after he presented some of his findings to
agents in Rome. But US officials told the NYT Steele’s research was not
the catalyst for the counter-intelligence inquiry into Russian election
interference.
Papadopoulos was appointed to Trump’s team of foreign policy advisers
in March 2016. He reportedly offered to facilitate a meeting with Putin
at a meeting including Trump that month. Jeff Sessions, Trump’s attorney general, who led the foreign policy
team, has claimed he told Papadopoulos to stand down. However, Sessions
initially failed to mention the discussion while testifying before
Congress. He later claimed that was because he had not recalled the
meeting. Papadopoulos edited an outline of Trump’s first major foreign policy
speech in April 2016, in which the candidate expressed his desire to
improve US-Russia relations. Papadopoulos, the Times reported,
highlighted the speech to his contacts in Moscow, suggesting it was a
“signal to meet”.
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