George Papadopoulos Says He Knew Mueller Investigation Was a ‘Hoax,’ But Was Not Allowed To Speak Up

George Papadopoulos, Trump’s former foreign policy adviser who pled guilty to charges stemming from Mueller’s investigation, is revealing he knew the entire thing was a hoax all along.

…but he was entirely unable to speak out given his own charges, despite the fact that he was used as “proof” that this so-called “collusion” actually took place.

He appeared on Fox & Friends this morning to discuss exactly that:

According to Fox News:

The 31-year-old, who pleaded guilty in October 2017 to making false statements to FBI agents, said on “Fox & Friends” that he knew the probe by Robert Mueller was a “hoax” but could not speak out about it until after he was sentenced.

“There has been so much misinformation about what my real case was all about. It was about a professor I met in London who the FBI told the world was a Russian agent,” he said.

I have a question: now that this collusion thing is proven to be a complete and utter hoax, will Papadopoulos be pardoned? Will his charges be dropped?

This witch hunt ruined real people’s lives. They deserve justice.

Papadopoulos was talking about Joseph Misfud, whom the FBI has said was a Russian agent with connections to high-ranking Russian officials. He was declared missing by Italian officials in September 2018.

“I met this man through an intermediary who represents the FBI in the U.K. and I met him at a university in Rome. I never expected this guy to be a Russian agent,” Papadopoulos said. “Then one day, this person tells me that the Russians have Hillary Clinton’s emails, out of the blue. I don’t believe him. This was not a credible person.”

Papadopoulos said that meeting and a subsequent “bizarre” meeting with Alexander Downer, the top Australian diplomat to the United Kingdom, where he commented about the claim that Russia had Clinton’s emails, triggered the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s presidential campaign.

“I actually was the one who reported Downer to both the FBI and Bob Mueller because of his very bizarre, strange behavior during my meeting with him. He was pulling his phone out, he was recording me. It was very bizarre,” he said.

Was Papadopoulos used as a scapegoat the entire time? This entire situation seems strangely ominous knowing what we know now.

Papadopoulos, who served 14 days at a federal prison in Wisconsin, said he was questioned more than 20 hours where officials allegedly tried to force him to “admit” that he had told someone on the Trump presidential campaign about his meetings with Misfud.

But he never did, because it simply wasn’t the case.

“Because if I had told anyone in the campaign, it would have been a conspiracy, but it would have been based on Western intelligence basically fabricating the entire thing,” he said. “As I am talking to Mueller’s people and they are trying to get me to say something that I know is not true, I just couldn’t. I had to stick to the facts, the truth.”

I find this incredibly alarming. I have always been hesitant to believe assertions that the government would purposely play a role in “creating” a crime. But that’s certainly what this seems like.

This is America – not some third world country. Our government is supposed to be better than this.

Yes. It’s supposed to be. But is it?