“I don’t want him to be the sacrificial lamb of a witch hunt, and there are many exculpatory [pieces of] evidence, shady people,” Simona Papadopoulos told Fox News’s Tucker Carlson Thursday. The Australians said Papadopoulos told one of their diplomats that he had been informed by Mifsud that the Russians had damaging material about Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. About that time, prosecutors have said, the London-based professor, Mifsud, began showing interest in Papadopoulos. Mifsud told Papadopoulos in April 2016 about the damaging emails, indicating that he had been told about the documents while attending a recent conference in Russia, according to court documents. Mifsud also introduced Papadopoulos to two Russian contacts — a woman and a man who had connections with the Russian Foreign Ministry, court documents show.

Source: Washington Post August 18, 2018 00:55 UTC