Ex-Trump Foreign Policy Advisor Confess Russia Collusion

George Papadopoulos, a former campaign adviser to President Trump, pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to federal officials about his contacts with Russian nationals he believed had ties to the Russian government during Trump's presidential campaign.

Papadopoulos, who was named by Trump in March 2016 as a foreign policy adviser to the campaign, pleaded guilty to lying about his contacts with the Russians when he was interviewed in January by federal agents who were investigating Russian interference in the presidential campaign.

In fact, prosecutors say he met with Russians in March 2016 and was told by them the next month that he had damaging information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, including thousands of Clinton's emails.

Papadopoulos also falsely told agents he believed his Russian contact was a low-level person in Russia, but, in fact, he knew that he had ties to senior levels of the Russian government, according to court papers released Monday.

He told agents that he met another contact a year before joining the Trump campaign, but, in fact, he met her only after he was named to the campaign and communicated with her for months while working with Trump aides, the documents show.

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