Trump plugs Mueller cooperator Papadopoulos's book

President Donald Trump on Monday plugged a book by George Papadopoulos — the former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser who triggered the FBI’s investigation into potential coordination between the campaign and Russia.

“Good luck with the book George, should do well!” Trump

Twitter

getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+"://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,"script","twitter-wjs");, sharing a

Twitter

by Papadopoulos that advertised his work as “a roadmap to redirect the investigation now towards the investigators.”

The president also retweeted another

Twitter

by Papadopoulos, who wrote: “Message to the house democrats: time to legislate not investigate. The only investigations that should be going on right now are by: Barr, Durham, Horowitz and Huber.” He was referring to the ongoing Justice Department investigation, headed by Attorney General William Barr, into the origins of the Russia probe.

Papadopoulos was sentenced in September 2018 to 14 days in federal prison for making false statements to the FBI during the early days of its investigation into Russian election interference, and was ordered to jail in November 2018. He had previously pleaded guilty in October 2017 after cooperating with former special counsel Robert Mueller’s office.

According to Mueller’s report, a foreign government official contacted the FBI in July 2016 about an encounter he had shared with Papadopoulos two months earlier, in which the Trump aide suggested the campaign “had received indications from the Russian government that it could assist the Campaign through the anonymous release of information damaging to” Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee.

That warning “prompted the FBI on July 31, 2016, to open an investigation into whether individuals associated with the Trump Campaign were coordinating with the Russian government in its interference activities,” Mueller wrote.

It has been previously reported that Papadopoulos had revealed to an Australian diplomat details of his April 2016 conversations with Josef Mifsud, a London-based professor with ties to the Kremlin who allegedly told Papadopoulos that Moscow had “thousands of emails” damaging to Clinton.

Papadopoulos’ book, “Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump,” was released in March.

Article originally published on POLITICO Magazine