During the presidential campaign in 2016, Donald trump rejected the idea of a meeting with the head of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin. This was announced by former adviser to trump George Papadopoulos in the context of cooperation with the investigation.
According to a former consultant of the headquarters of the trump, in March 2016 at the meeting of advisers to the Republican candidate Papadopoulos proposed to organize a meeting with Putin. That trump «did not answer neither «Yes» nor «no».
As it became known, the Chairman of the team for national security trump, and now the General Prosecutor Jeff Sessions, «sunk» the idea.
As CNN reports, the response of the elected President on the proposal of Papadopoulos may be of interest to special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating the connection between campaign trump and Russia.
Jeffrey Gordon, the former press Secretary of the Pentagon and the national security Advisor to trump, told CNN about his surprise when «he learned that George Papadopoulos participated in the campaign.»
We will remind, about 8 o’clock in the morning of October 30 revealed information about the names of the representatives of the campaign trump, which a Federal Grand jury has nominated the first charges in the investigation Muller.
As it turned out, Papadopoulos admitted to making false statements to the FBI about his true relationship with officials of another country. The former Advisor admitted that «he had connections that could help to organize a meeting between, at that time, a candidate trump and President Putin».
