essentially by an agent of russian intelligence who approached him, who saw him as low-hanging fruit, an advisor to the trump campaign, a junior person, 29 years old. and this professor, joseph nipsud told papadopoulos the russian hz obtained dirt in the form of thousands of e-mails on hillary clinton. papadopoulos possessed this information. we still don t know who inside the trump campaign he told about that information. but papadopoulos s lawyer thomas breen said that after meeting with him, papadopoulos made efforts to broker a meeting between senior russian officials and the trump campaign. and papadopoulos lawyer told the judge that donald trump and jeff sessions appeared to look favorably on the idea that that meeting should occur. i ll tell you one other really interesting thing papadopoulos s lawyer said in trying to explain why his client misled the fbi in january 2017 when they went to talk to him about this. he noted that just a few days before, donald trump had called the
it wassant because n t becau useful or remorseful. he said he was deeply ashamed and embarrassed and apologized to his family. the judge said he took that into account when passing sentence. the judge also noticed noted that most people charged with this crime of lying to investigators and who are in george papadopoulos s position with no prior criminal record, most of those people are never sentenced to jail at all. but the judge found this was a different case because this was about national security. and the judge found that george papadopoulos put his own personal interests over the interests of the nation because, don t forget, let s back up. george papadopoulos was worked essentially by an agent of russian intelligence who approached him, who saw him as low-hanging fruit, an advisor to the trump campaign, a junior person, 29 years old. and this professor, joseph nipsud told papadopoulos the russian hz obtained dirt in the form of thousands of e-mails on