Breaking! George Papadopolous SENTENCED in Mueller investigation!!

by SooperMexican

One of Trump’s former campaign aides was sentenced today for lying to the FBI in the Mueller probe.

He got a pretty light sentence:

And that sounds about right because his lie just wasn’t that big:

From the Hill:

Prosecutors had asked that Papadopoulos be sentenced to up to six months in federal prison and fined $9,500 for his crime, arguing in an August filing that his misstatements did deliberate harm the investigation in its early stages and that his cooperation did not yield significant gains.

“This was a serious offense,” Andrew Goldstein, representing the special counsel’s office, said Friday. “The lies were purposeful, they were calculated, and they caused harm to the investigation.”

Meanwhile, attorneys for Papadopoulos asked that he face one-year probation, arguing that he did not lie to deliberately harm the investigation and only lied because of his loyalty to Trump and his professional ambitions.

Defense attorneys also said the former Trump associate provided government prosecutors with “critical information” in a series of interviews following his guilty plea.

Thomas Breen, one of Papadopoulos’s attorneys, portrayed him on Friday as a young, ambitious adviser who made “stupid, stupid mistakes” during the course of a high-stakes role on the campaign.

“He was unsophisticated, he was naïve, and he was a fool,” Breen said. “It was not his intent to hinder an investigation regarding national security.”

People are very excited:

AND you have to admit, if this all happened to President Hillary, we’d be demanding she be impeached yesterday. Thank goodness that witless harridan wasn’t elected. Anyway….

Bizarrely, he can’t remember if he told anyone on the Trump campaign:

Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos says he doesn’t remember telling anyone on the campaign that Russia had damaging emails about Hillary Clinton, but “can’t guarantee” that he kept the bombshell from his campaign colleagues.

Breaking his silence for the first time since his guilty plea, Papadopoulos also doubled down on the claim that then-Sen. Jeff Sessions embraced his proposal that candidate Donald Trump meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin, contradicting Sessions’ testimony to Congress.

The young political operative maintains that he never alerted the Trump campaign about the Russian dirt. But when pressed, Papadopoulos refused to completely shut the door on the possibility that the information made its way to other people on the campaign.

“As far as I remember, I absolutely did not share this information with anyone on the campaign,” Papadopoulos said, adding, “I might have, but I have no recollection of doing so. I can’t guarantee. All I can say is, my memory is telling me that I never shared it with anyone on the campaign.”

Well that sucks for Mueller. Good for Trump tho…


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