The fiancee of former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI, is speaking out publicly to push back against claims by President Donald Trump and his team that Papadopoulos was just a "coffee boy" on the campaign.
Papadopoulos' fiancee, Simona Mangiante, told CNN in an interview that Papadopoulos was "everything but a coffee boy" who worked with senior members of the Trump campaign.
Mangiante said she is speaking out now because her fiance cannot.
"His contributions to the campaign has been much more relevant than bringing coffee," she said. "I think they wanted to disassociate from the first person who decided to actively cooperate with the government, on the right side. And probably the easiest way out is to dismiss his personality and lower him to a low-level volunteer."
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"It was a volunteer position," said White House press secretary Sarah Sanders. "And again, no activity was ever done in an official capacity on behalf of the campaign in that regard."
"He was the coffee boy," former Trump campaign adviser Michael Caputo told CNN.
But Mangiante, an Italian national, says her fiancee -- whom she first connected with in September 2016 -- was in touch with many high-level campaign officials during the campaign, and he worked with former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn during the transition. Papadopoulos is pictured in a March 2016 photo of then-candidate Trump meeting with his foreign policy team.
"He worked with Michael Flynn during the transition, and he was actively contributing to the foreign policy strategies for the campaign," Mangiante said. "He didn't take any initiative on his own without campaign approval."
Of course he didn't take any initiative on his own without campaign approval, that is not how Trump does things.
That should be obvious to anybody who has been watching Donald Trump for this last year.
That also means that Michael Flynn did not act on his own, nor Donald Trump Jr., nor Paul Manafort.
They ALL clearly had received direction from not only the Trump campaign, but likely Donald Trump himself.
Proving this should one of Robert Mueller's top priorities in my opinion.
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