open

View this email as a webpage


Sign up to receive Mike Warren's White House Watch column straight to your inbox!

Not Quite the Best or the Brightest

November 3, 2017 03:10 AM

George Papadopoulos was ambitious and underqualified, the kind of wannabe who fills the lower rungs of many a political campaign. This foreign policy adviser to the Donald Trump campaign would not have been even a footnote in the history of the 2016 election before he pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his attempt to connect campaign officials with Russian officials. Now, as with so many others, a marginal supporting actor in Trump’s ongoing drama takes center stage.

Early in the 2016 cycle, Papadopoulos, then 29, briefly advised Ben Carson’s presidential campaign. Interested in national security and politics but without much in the way of credentials or experience, Papadopoulos cast himself as an international

Read the full story here >


This email was sent by:
The Weekly Standard
A MediaDC Publication
1152 15th Street, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20005


We respect your right to privacy - View our Policy

Manage Subscriptions | One-Click Unsubscribe