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1/ According to the plea agreement filed 10-5-2017, Papadopoulos told the campaign in April 2016 that the Russians had dirt in the form of thousands of emails.
2/ The Sentencing Memo drops in some additional info: Papadopoulos also knew in April 2016 that the emails had been stolen via hacking and Wikileaks would release them, and he was giving the campaign a heads up. See Footnote 2: assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4776…
3/ The additional fact is buried in a footnote. Because Papadopolous kept lying about whether he relayed info from the “professor” to the campaign. To get him to tell the truth, the agent asked a very long question, with a few [ ] in the middle. The question will take 2 tweets.
4/ Q: “Going back to the Wikileaks and maybe the Russian hacking and all that, were you ever made aware that the Russians had intent to disclose information [ ] ahead of time? So before it became public? . . .
5/ . . . “Did anyone ever tell you that the Russian government plans to release some information[ , ] like tell the Trump team ahead of time[ , ] that that was going to happen?” When Papadopolous said “no,” it was a lie. [ ] means facts Mueller doesn’t want to disclose yet.
6/ So Team Trump was told in April 2016 that Russia hacked and stole emails, which they planned to weaponize on behalf of the Trump campaign. And they got involved. And Papadopolous lied to the FBI to cover it up. Stand by while I update my thread on Accessory After the Fact.
