Trump 2020 campaign responds to report FBI investigator posed as assistant to meet with 2016 campaign adviser: This is 'Spying'
President Donald Trump's campaign team renewed allegations of FBI spying after a New York Times report on Thursday revealed that an FBI investigator posed as a research assistant to meet with then-Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos in 2016 as part of a counterintelligence probe into the presidential candidate’s suspected ties to Russia.
Cambridge professor and FBI informant Stefan Halper assisted Turk with her mission and accompanied her to one of the meetings with Papadopoulos, according to the Times. He also held meetings separately with Papadopoulos and a number of other Trump campaign aides. Turk and Halper’s operation in London did not result in the finding of any substantial evidence. FBI officials have maintained that their activities were above board, in terms of legality, and that it was justified under extraordinary circumstances.
The White House and the Justice Department did not immediately respond to Newsweek’s request for comment. Papadopoulos tweeted his praise for the article on Thursday, but noted that he believed that Turk was actually “CIA and affiliated with Turkish intel,” rather than an FBI agent as stated by the Times.
— George Papadopoulos May 2, 2019Papadopoulos served 12 days in jail in 2018 after pleading guilty to lying to investigators. He is currently in the middle of a year-long supervised release. In March, he revealed that he had sought a pardon from the White House.
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