George Papadopoulos, the first official in President Donald Trump’s initial administration to plead guilty in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, told Newsmax on Saturday he feels “total, absolute vindication” over the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey.
Comey was a “dirty cop who ran a dirty investigation, who then passed this investigation off to even more dirty cops like Robert Mueller and his thugs,” Papadopoulos, a former foreign policy adviser for Trump and a current Newsmax contributor, said on “America Right Now.”
Papadopoulos gained national attention in 2017 when he became the first Trump campaign aide charged in Mueller’s Russia investigation. He pleaded guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his contacts with individuals linked to Russia, serving 12 days in federal prison before being pardoned by Trump in December 2020.
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