Papadopoulos, a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel in Trump’s 2016 campaign, was caught lying to the FBI. Papadopoulos plead guilty of lying to the FBI over his contact with people that had connections to Russia in the 2016 campaign. This has had multiple repercussions on the federal investigation; Papadopoulos aided in losing track of Joseph Mifsud, the professor who allegedly knew about Hillary Clinton’s emails, and Papadopoulos hasn’t been cooperative or “easy to handle” since his arrest in late 2017.
The article was written at 11:34 A.M. on September 8, 2018. The audience would probably be people who want to stay informed on how this will affect the Trump administration and the country as well as relations with other countries. The author of this article is Katelyn Polantz and she specializes in crime and justice articles, so this shows her deep knowledge of this subject. The article was written to keep readers nationwide and worldwide updated on their country’s relations with the US or how this will affect them. The article is important because this series of event has and will have a very big effect on what happens to the Trump administration and how it will be handled. The article relates to US History because it shows how once again people can get away with doing terrible things because they are rich and powerful. Lying to the FBI, or a federal officer in general, is a jail time of 5-8 years depending on how serious the infraction was. Papadopoulos, however, only got 14 days in jail, and Van Der Zwaan, a Dutch attorney, only got 30 days for committing an infraction like this. Time and time again we let rich, powerful people get away with their crimes and we need to start making them accountable of their actions. This could be compared to the Watergate scandal that happened when President Nixon was president. Him and his cabinet had been caught recording conversations and Nixon further trying to cover up the scandal he had been brought in to. After serious investigations many people had been caught lying and in serious situations, along with Nixon, so they decided to impeach him but Nixon resigned before that could happen and was left with no punishment.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/07/politics/george-papadopoulos-sentencing-hearing/index.html
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