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Q Okay. And then just to be clear, in the indictment
against you, is Mifsud, is he the professor?
A Yes.
Q And then at what point did you learn that, you know,
he's not who he said he was?
A Like I said, I don't have the concrete proof of who this
person is. I'm just going with reports.
And all I can say is that I believe the day I was, my name
was publicly released and Papadopoulos became this person that
everyone now knows, Mifsud gave an interview to an Italian
newspaper. And in this newspaper, he basically said, I'm not a
Russian agent. I'm a Clinton supporter. I'm a Clinton Foundation
donor, and that – something along those lines. I mean, don't
quote me exactly, you could look up the article yourself. It is
in La Republica.
And then all of a sudden, after that, he disappears off the
face of the planet, which I always found as odd.
Then, of course, considering this is such a big case and my
name is circulating around the world, of course, reporters are
interested in who this professor is. If we want to nail Trump and
Papadopoulos of conspiring with Russians, of course we're going to
look into Mifsud.
And in my honest opinion, I think that completely backfired
on this narrative, because all they've uncovered, for the most
part, is how the connected he is to the British Government,
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Italian Government, the State Department, where he was talking at
a conference, I think, when he was apparently interviewed by the
FBI. And that he knows, of course, some Russian academics. He
seems to be this very big networker.
Of note:
Mifsud gave an interview to an Italian
newspaper. And in this newspaper, he basically said, I'm not a
Russian agent. I'm a Clinton supporter. I'm a Clinton Foundation
donor, and that – something along those lines. I mean, don't
quote me exactly, you could look up the article yourself. It is
in La Republica.