But what a fun fantasy.
He’s tied into Cambridge Analytica and the Mercers. Also could have criminal exposure w/ Breitbart depending on how things were run there.
I hope the poor kid at least gets some play dates with some of his classmates every now and then, rather than having to go home to the White House every afternoon. It has to be a lonely place for a kid that age.
But very satisfying
I’ve heard his grades in his Russian language class are suspiciously high.
Just sayin.’
I feel bad for the kid. Maybe having a celebrity dad prepared him a bit, but being a kid in the White House can’t be easy.
It seems obvious that any un-indicted co-conspirators would at least know they should watch their ps and qs around GP.
So, that doesn’t sound like an unreasonable thing to suspect.
Sometimes though, especially at high levels of mastery, things are done which seem counter-intuitive to the layperson.
But as one layperson to another, you’re prob’ly right.
Great question. There must be a balance between continuing to seal the court matter and using him to entrap the others and going public with it so that those who were in cahoots with him know that their goose is cooked. I can only imagine the horror that those who confided in Papodopolous recently are feeling right now.
Has Fox started the “Pap smear” snickering yet?
ninja’d.
The private school he’s in seems to be noted for special needs kids, and there’s been some quiet talk about autism. So yeah, leave the kid some room.
Don’t forget that these guys are idiots. GP deleted his Facebook account thinking this would keep it from the motherfucking FBI. And they’re all that way, all the way through Kelly and Trump, obviously.
What do you mean? He’s surrounded by other children (by mental age, anyway.)
She’s an albatross around the neck of the Democratic party and should be treated like one. Quit allowing the press to look to her as a Dem spokesperson whenever anything happens in Washington.
So, you are saying that Charlie Sheen will be joining the trump admin?
But since the matter was sealed, and his arrest was done on the DL, I’d be surprised if any co-conspirators all the sudden became that careful over the past few months. By all indications, these guys were pretty willy nilly—not exactly seasoned criminals. Look at Carter Page ferchristsake.
Maybe Mueller wants the guys who know they’re on George’s wire to sweat it out a little and then roll?
You’re gonna get tired of all that Winning!
By the other person cheating.
The way I see it, if you keep the Papadopoulos flip quiet, then you can nail whoever actually said anything incriminating to him up to now, and you can also nail anyone who says anything incriminating to him in the future until such time that someone figures out that he’s flipped. If you reveal that he’s flipped, though, you still get anyone who’s already said anything incriminating to him… but also, consider all of the people who aren’t sure whether they’ve said anything incriminating to him or not. After all, there are a lot of topics that come up in those high-level discussions, and most of them are slimy-but-legal at worst. If you’re not sure what you’ve said to him when, then you’ve got a decision to weigh: Try to get away with it, or talk to the FBI now and try to negotiate a better deal, while you might still have some leverage. And so the FBI might be able to get you, or the information you have, even if it turns out that they didn’t actually have any dirt on you yet.
Apparently, yesterday was the point at which Mueller decided that the benefit from worrying everyone else outweighed the benefit from keeping Papadopoulos hidden in place.
That’s plausible.
But IMO it’s more likely that Papadopoulos has incriminating info from his time on the campaign as opposed to being able to produce it later. Because AFAIK he had no role in the Trump administration, and it’s not like he was a big mover and shaker who would ordinarily be in contact with senior Trump people. On the campaign his role is critical as to the specific Russia issue because he tried to set up these contacts, but he was not otherwise a senior level guy. He was, in the end, a recent college graduate who latched on to the thinly populated Carson and later Trump policy teams.
So, assuming (as certainly makes sense) that the GP plea was kept quiet due to his cooperation, it’s possible that the exact opposite is what happened. GP fished for a while but after a few months Mueller realized he wasn’t going to get anything and the targets weren’t taking his calls anymore anyway …