{"id":27152,"date":"2017-12-31T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27152"},"modified":"2017-12-31T13:42:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T13:42:31","slug":"thats-trump-2016-campaign-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27152","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s some Trump 2016 campaign &#8216;leak&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/george.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27153\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/george-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/george-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/george.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>George Papadopoulos seems to have a big mouth that spews a lot of, um, <em>intelligence<\/em> when it&#8217;s lubricated with liquor.<\/p>\n<p>Who is this guy and what does it mean? According to the New York Times, Papadopoulos is a former low-level Donald Trump presidential campaign aide who, during a drunken bender in London, told the Australian ambassador to Great Britain that Russian government officials had compiled dirt on Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; its meaning? The young man who served as a foreign policy adviser to the Trump team said enough to alarm the Aussie envoy, who then alerted U.S. government officials. He also triggered the FBI investigation into the &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; that prompted the president to fire former FBI director James Comey earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/12\/30\/us\/politics\/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news\">Another bombshell &#8230; maybe?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The revelation has the potential of creating yet another firestorm regarding special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s probe of the Russia collusion allegation. The Department of Justice selected Mueller &#8212; also a former FBI director and a highly respected career prosecutor &#8212; to lead the probe into whether the Trump team colluded with Russian agents who sought to meddle in the 2016 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The president keeps insisting there was &#8220;no collusion.&#8221; He has said Mueller is engaged in a witch hunt, although of late he says he believes Mueller will treat him &#8220;fairly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My own view is that this one-time low-level underling &#8212; Papadopoulos &#8212; might have spilled enough of the beans to lure the special counsel&#8217;s legal team toward pay dirt.<\/p>\n<p>Bizarre.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Papadopoulos seems to have a big mouth that spews a lot of, um, intelligence when it&#8217;s lubricated with liquor. Who is this guy and what does it mean? According to the New York Times, Papadopoulos is a former low-level Donald Trump presidential campaign aide who, during a drunken bender in London, told the Australian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">That&#8217;s some Trump 2016 campaign &#8216;leak&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[74,1424,1693,2139,6242,3983,7093],"class_list":["post-27152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-james-comey","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27154,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27152\/revisions\/27154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}