Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump

by George Papadopoulos

Overview

The former advisor to President Trump shares an insider account of the investigation into Russian collusion in a memoir that “unfolds like a spy thriller” (Publishers Weekly).
 
As a young, ambitious foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, George Papadopoulos became the first Trump official to plead guilty in special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. He then became the first campaign advisor sentenced to prison.
 
But as he explains in Deep State Target, there was an intricate set up at play, and it was neither Trump nor the Russians pulling the strings. American and allied intelligence services set out to destroy a Trump presidency before it even started. Here, Papadopoulos gives the play-by-play of how operatives like Professor Joseph Mifsud, Sergei Millian, Alexander Downer, and Stefan Halper worked to invent a Russian conspiracy that would irreparably damage the Trump administration.
 
Papadopoulos was there: In secret meetings across the globe, on city streets being tailed by agents, and ultimately being interrogated by Mueller’s team and agreeing to a guilty plea.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781635764949
Publisher:	Diversion Books
Publication date:	06/25/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	197
Sales rank:	857,815
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

George Papadopoulos became the first person to plead guilty in the Mueller Investigation when—on October 5, 2017—he conceded that he had lied to the F.B.I. about a conversation with a professor during which he was told that Moscow had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton and “thousands of emails,” according to court records. Papadopoulos is a former advisor to President Trump and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Ben Carson. A University College London graduate, past Hudson Institute analyst, and career oil, gas and policy consultant, he was sentenced to 14 days in jail, fined $9,500 and ordered to complete 200 hours of community service and one year of probation after he serves his sentence. He is married to Simona Mangiante and lives in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 A Beginning 7

2 Mr. Papadopoulos Goes to Washington 13

3 Campaign Fever 29

4 Power Games 45

5 Target Practice 57

6 The Devil from Down Under 73

7 Greece, Cleveland & Millian 81

8 The Halper Set-Up 99

9 Victory Spoils 119

10 Men in Black Attack 129

11 Love Among the Ruins 145

12 The Arrest 165

13 The Grinding Wheels of Justice 189

14 Connecting the Pieces 209

15 Incarceration 8c Inspiration 223

Acknowledgments 235

Index 237

About the Author 245

Editorial Reviews

George Papadopoulos was the whole reason for the Trump Russia investigation.” —Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C.

"Revealing.... a troubling story of prosecutors railroading him.... Papadopoulos’s saga unfolds like a spy thriller.... He convincingly debunks anti-Trump theorizing about the supposedly sinister contacts of campaign underlings: it wasn’t collusion, he argues, but instead the normal, promiscuous networking of on-the-make foreign relations consultants like him looking to gain status by forging connections with and between powerful people. The result is a revealing . . . insider account of a seemingly central piece of the special counsel investigation." —Publishers Weekly

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