In a new book obtained by the Wall Street Journal, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos is attempting to rewrite history.
In the book, “Deep State Target,” Papadopoulos reportedly outlines his interactions with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team of investigators and suggests he was “duped” by agents into admitting guilt for lying to the FBI, a charge that he served 14 days in prison for.
“I realize I misspoke to the FBI,” he reportedly wrote. “The ‘lie’ I was charged with … certainly wasn’t intentional. … I had to use those words and own them because those were the charges the prosecutors insisted on hitting me with. I am truly sorry I didn’t get the dates right when I talked to the FBI agents. Still, I was never told what my false claims were.”
Papadopoulos — whose drunken conversation with an Australian diplomat during the 2016 campaign helped spark the Russia probe — was charged and pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a professor named Joseph Mifsud, who allegedly told him that the Russians had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.
He wrote a book? He thinks people will buy this book? WHY?
Seems legit. You could probably ask Papadopoulos to make change for a twenty and dupe him into giving you back fifty in the exchange. So yeah, duped.
“They tricked me!” shouted the man married to a Russian spy pretending to be Italian.
The only duping going on here was self-inflicted–indeed, the word is in the middle of his last name.
Papa-dupe-oulos.
Self-published on Kindle, I guarantee. You scribble out your maunderings, hit return and it’s available for sale in under five minutes. Costs you not a cent. Which is about what any real publisher would give him for this. There’s a lot of gullible wingnuts out there but he wouldn’t sell 20 copies of a real book.