A former adviser to US President Donald Trump who admitted lying to federal investigators about his contacts with Russians announces Monday he is running for a US Congress seat in California.
“I’m running for the 25th congressional district,” George Papadopoulos tells Fox News.
“I’m here to promote the America-first agenda, and to enact legislation that has real-life consequences for the American people.”
The seat, in the suburbs of Los Angeles, was vacated this month by Democrat Katie Hill, who resigned amid lurid revelations about her private life and the publication of nude photos without her consent.
A special election will be held in May.
Former Donald Trump presidential campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, who triggered the Russia investigation, and who pleaded guilty to one count of making false statements to the FBI, holds hands with his wife Simona Mangiante as they arrive at federal court for sentencing, Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Papadopoulos, 32, was a member of Trump’s foreign policy advisory panel when he ran for US president in 2016. He was catapulted from obscurity when he pleaded guilty in October 2017 to lying to the FBI about contacts with a professor who promised to connect him to senior Russian officials.
Papadopoulos pursued a back channel that led him to contact with individuals who claimed Moscow had “dirt” on Trump’s Democratic election opponent Hillary Clinton.
He cooperated with investigators led by Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who conducted a two-year probe into alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Papadopoulos spent 12 days in jail after his guilty plea, and subsequently wrote a book about what he describes as “the plot to bring down President Trump.”
— AFP
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