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A foreign policy advisor to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign said that Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not reject a proposal for a meeting between the presidential candidate and Russian President Vladimir Putin during his testimony.
George Papadopoulos, who was sentenced Friday to 14 days in jail for lying to investigators, said Sunday on ABC "This week" that at a meeting in March 2016, Sessions was "enthusiastic" about the planned summit with Putin. Papadopoulos told campaign leaders that he could help organize the meeting by contacting a teacher.
The sessions testified before the Congress last November that he had "rejected" the idea.
"I think I wanted him to understand that he was not allowed to represent the campaign with the Russian government or any other foreign government," Sessions said at the time.
"All I can say is that my memories differ from hers at this point," Papadopoulos said Sunday. The former adviser said Trump, also present at the meeting, had "nodded" at the prospect of meeting Putin.
"I do not think it was done anyway," Papadopoulos said of Trump. "He was open to the idea and he postponed" to Sessions, then US Senator from Alabama who was advising the campaign.
Allowed lying down
Papadopoulos, who confessed to having lied to the investigators about his contacts with the academic, became the first person to plead guilty to Special Adviser Robert Mueller's investigation into a possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
On Sunday, Papadopoulos said he did not remember talking to anyone about the campaign he had received from an academic on Russia that had thousands of emails from Hillary Clinton, but added that campaign
Asked whether Mueller's investigation will show that there was collusion, Papadopoulos said he did not know but "all I can say is that my testimony could have helped advance the things".
