George Demetrios Papadopoulos is an author and former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. He pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents about the timing and the possible significance of his contacts in 2016 relating to U.S. –Russia relations. He served twelve days in federal prison, then was placed on a 12-month supervised release. He was later pardoned by Trump in December 2020. He ran in the March 2020 special election to replace Rep. Katie Hill in California’s 25th congressional district, after Hill resigned, but lost receiving 2. 3% of the vote.
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George Demetrios Papadopoulos is an author and former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. He pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents about the timing and the possible significance of his contacts in 2016 relating to U. S. –Russia relations. He served twelve days in federal prison, then was placed on a 12-month supervised release. He was later pardoned by Trump in December 2020. He ran in the March 2020 special election to replace Rep. Katie Hill in California’s 25th congressional district, after Hill resigned, but lost receiving 2. 3% of the vote. In March 2019, he released his book, Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump. He speaks Arabic, English, French and Greek. He is the son of Greek immigrants originally from Thessaloniki. His father, Antonis, was heavily involved in the local politics of the Greek-American community and is the former president of the Pan-Macedonian Union of the United States. His mother, Kate, was born in Greece, but later moved to Worcester, Massachusetts. He attended Niles West High School in Skokie, Illinois, graduating in 2005. He then attended DePaul University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 2009. He earned a Master of Science in Security Studies in 2010 at University College London. He described himself as an \”oil, gas, and policy consultant\” on his LinkedIn page.
He worked as an unpaid intern at the Hudson Institute from 2011 to 2015 specializing in the eastern Mediterranean. In September 2015, Papadopolous left the Hudson institute and joined Energy Stream, a London energy consultancy, as an oil and gas consultant. He left the Carson campaign in mid-February 2016. In February 2016 he begins work as a director in an international energy center at the London Centre of International Law Practice. He believed that parts of the campaign would be assumed by the Ben Carson campaign. Papadoulos first reached out to the Trump campaign on August 4, 2015, expressing “an interest in Mr Trump on Mr Trump’s foreign policy matters of energy and U.S. security.” In December 2015, he sent his résumé to the campaign, which hired him as a foreign policy adviser. He later joined the board of C.3, which manufactures marijuana pill Idrasil3. In January 2016, he announced that he had joined the medical cannabis company C.C.C., which manufactures cannabis. He has since resigned from the board. In April 2017, he wrote a book, ‘The Deep State: How I got caught in the Plot To Bring Down president Trump.’ He has also written op-ed pieces in Israeli publications. In one, published in the Arutz Sheva, he argued that the U. s. should focus on its ‘stalwart allies’ Israel, Greece, and Cyprus to ‘contain the newly emergent Russian fleet’
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