09-01-2018, 11:45 AM
Contesting prosecutors’ contention that he has provided little cooperation to the probe, Papadopoulos’s lawyers argued that he has volunteered information in an effort to help — such as describing a March 31, 2016, meeting he attended with Trump and then-Sen. Jeff Sessions where Papadopoulos announced soon after introducing himself that he could get Trump a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
For the first time, Papadopoulos’s lawyers revealed that the young adviser felt encouraged by Trump to continue those efforts, writing in the court filing that “Mr. Trump nodded with approval and deferred to Mr. Sessions, who appeared to like the idea and stated that the campaign should look into it.”
That account conflicts with what Sessions, now attorney general, testified to Congress. Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee in November 2017 that he remembered offering “pushback” when Papadopoulos raised the idea, suggesting he had shut down the young adviser’s proposal for a Trump-Putin meeting. A spokeswoman for Sessions declined to comment yesterday.
While Mueller's team did not recommend a sentence length, six months behind bars is the standard for the crime to which he pleaded guilty.
Full story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...22b3e93e06
For the first time, Papadopoulos’s lawyers revealed that the young adviser felt encouraged by Trump to continue those efforts, writing in the court filing that “Mr. Trump nodded with approval and deferred to Mr. Sessions, who appeared to like the idea and stated that the campaign should look into it.”
That account conflicts with what Sessions, now attorney general, testified to Congress. Sessions told the House Judiciary Committee in November 2017 that he remembered offering “pushback” when Papadopoulos raised the idea, suggesting he had shut down the young adviser’s proposal for a Trump-Putin meeting. A spokeswoman for Sessions declined to comment yesterday.
While Mueller's team did not recommend a sentence length, six months behind bars is the standard for the crime to which he pleaded guilty.
Full story: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...22b3e93e06