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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPapadopoulos Might Have Been a "Low-Level" Trump Adviser, but There Were No High-Level Ones
By Joshua Keating
Since charges were announced Monday against former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty to misleading the FBI about his meetings with Russian government intermediaries, the president has been doing his best to make it sound like Papadopoulos was basically a nobody, a hanger-on distributing lawn signs in Dubuque, Iowa:
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This wasnt exactly how Trump described him in a March 2016 interview with the editorial board of the Washington Post, right around the time Papadopoulos had his first meeting with the mysterious Russian professor. Papadopoulos was one of the five names Trump listed when asked if he would soon be revealing his foreign policy team, describing him as an energy and oil consultant, excellent guy.
Though Papadopoulos, according to his indictment, seems to have been in frequent communications with senior Trump campaign officials, Trump may be right that he was basically low-level. Theres little evidence that he was an influential adviser to Trump at any point. The thing is, its not clear that Trump ever had any high-level advisers.
Hillary Clinton had hundreds of (yes, unpaid) foreign policy advisers whom she never met. But these were supervised by a brain trust of her former State Department aides and senior veterans of the Obama and Bill Clinton administrations. There was a clear hierarchy.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/31/papadopoulos_might_have_been_a_low_level_trump_advisor_but_there_were_no.html
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Papadopoulos Might Have Been a "Low-Level" Trump Adviser, but There Were No High-Level Ones (Original Post)
DonViejo
Oct 2017
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(52,317 posts)1. Donnie's on top and he's in the gutter. They're all low-level.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)2. Not many coffee boys get to sit at the big conference table, LOL.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)3. Interesting observation!