Academic at heart of Clinton 'dirt' claim vanishes, leaving trail of questions

By Tim Lister and Nic Robertson, CNN 

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/11/08/politics/joseph-mifsud-trump-russia-investigation/index.html

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In the US affidavit, Papadopoulos claims that Mifsud told him in April 2016 that the Russians had "thousands of emails" relating to Hillary Clinton.

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The associate, who spoke to CNN at length, also said that Mifsud told him that he had been interviewed by the FBI while on a visit to the US earlier this year. That chimes with Mifsud's own account -- in an interview last week with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, he refers to a discussion with the FBI.

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Last week, Mifsud described Papadopoulos' claim that he knew about Russia's material on Clinton as "baloney."

"I absolutely exclude the fact that I spoke of secrets regarding Hillary Clinton," he told La Repubblica.



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