DC: Rep. Doug Collins released a transcript Tuesday of testimony provided in October by former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos.
Papadopoulos was the spark for the FBI’s collusion investigation of the Trump campaign.
Collins, a Georgia Republican, released the 239-page transcript on the same day that Papadopoulos released his book, “Deep State Target.” The release also follows two days after the Justice Department revealed that special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Papadopoulos was the FBI’s catalyst for Crossfire Hurricane, the counterintelligence investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russian government.
Collins, the House Judiciary Committee ranking member, has previously released transcripts of interviews with Justice Department official Bruce Ohr and former FBI officials Lisa Page and Peter Strzok.
In testimony on Oct. 25, 2018, Papadopoulos laid out a series of contacts he had during and after the 2016 campaign, including with Stefan Halper, an FBI informant.
Halper, a former Cambridge professor, contacted Papadopoulos in September 2016 with an offer of $3,000 to write a policy paper. The paper was a ruse for Halper to meet with Papadopoulos to ask him questions about any contacts he may have had with Russians.
Keep them coming Doug. I hope you have the FISA documents on your agenda. And Hillary’s emails. Obama’s real birth certificate and college application and transcripts would be nice to see as well.
Maybe George Stephanopoulos will interview George Papadopoulos. To be followed by interviews with Achilleas Angelopoulos and Achilleas Gerostokopoulos.
Hillary is above the Law…I am serious about this. There is no possibility that she will be found guilty of anything although a pretend trial might be held in order to give Democrats immunity. She has made the Clinton Foundation personal in effect for generations of family members and good Communists to receive money for their efforts or for just being…$2.7 billion in stocks..earned through corruption and untouchable. The only thing that will be rough is to watch the Trump family be destroyed..