Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopolous has announced he will be running for Congres in California.
Papadopoulos was implicated in the Russia probe and used to connect Trump to Russia. He pled guilty to lying to the FBI but his connection to Russia never brought charges.
According to Fox News:
Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, who has famously alleged he was targeted in the FBI’s Russia probe as part of a scheme to take down his boss, announced Monday morning on “Fox & Friends” that he is running for the California congressional seat vacated by Democrat Katie Hill.
“This is a state with tremendous potential. Unfortunately, the governing apparatus and the party in this state has driven it right into the ground,” Papadopoulos said. “I have been living here for over a year and a half, and people every single day, when I go and talk around the districts, the state, the country, they tell me we need a candidate to represent the community that has an America First agenda at heart, that supports the president, and if elected to Congress, would propose and enact legislation that would advance this agenda.”
Papadopoulos was a key figure in the FBI’s Russia probe into ties between Russia and the Donald Trump campaign. That investigation began after revelations that Papadopoulos had learned in 2016 from Maltese professor Joseph Mifsud that Russia had “dirt” on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails.
Announcement soon on my interest in Katie Hill’s soon to be vacant seat in the 25th district!
— George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) October 29, 2019
He then used that connection to try to set up a meeting between Trump, then a Republican presidential candidate, and Russian President Vladimir Putin. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and cooperated in Mueller’s investigation. He was sentenced in fall 2018 to 14 days in prison.
Papadopolous also wrote a book about how he got caught up in the “deep state’s” attempt to bring down Trump.
