George Papadopoulous: Innocent Bystander
Okay, I’m reading Defendant’s Sentencing Memorandum on George Papadopolous. This is where George’s lawyer tells the judge why George shouldn’t be sent to prison for the rest of his damn life.
It is 16 pages long
, but I don’t have to get past the top of the second page to say the WTF words. It starts off saying that George really didn’t do anything wrong when he mislead federal investigators looking into the fact the Russia meddled in our elections.
Get a load of this:
Mr. Papadopoulos misled investigators to save his professional aspirations and preserve a perhaps misguided loyalty to his master.
Translated: George lied to save his butt, which, they claim, is very different than and far less awful than why other people lie. Other people lie, I suspect, to save their ass. George just lied to save his butt and his “master.”
And Donald Trump is his “Master”? Does that require official paperwork or just a “Slave to Your Heart” tattoo?
Papadopolous is asking for probation. And really, his lawyer argues, just the fact that he’s now a convicted felon is enough punishment. Are you kidding me? Hey, you have to have ‘convicted felon’ on your resume to get a $300,000 a year job on Fox News. This is an employment opportunity for him.
And then there’s page six where they talk about George’s “giddiness” over Trump’s attention. I can’t talk about that. Seriously, I can’t.
Need some cheap entertainment? It’s only 16 pages and in big print.
Thanks to Gray for the heads up.
Dude has a “master”? Seriously? Mkay. If these fools don’t go away soon, I’m going to have a permanent flat spot on my forehead from head desking.
1.”giddiness?”
2Oh, puh-leez! It is to hurl.
I can’t read things like that. My grip on reality is tenuous at best these days. I’m better off watching Doctor Who videos than I am reading the damn news.
3Wait a minute, didn’t this moron already plead guilty to a felony? Word is that he did not prove to be very helpful to the investigation which means jail time. He was in on the conspiracy and met with a Russian. Did that make him giddy too?
4maryelle@4: Word is he agreed to cooperate, and then tried to withhold information, and got immediately caught at it. More than once.
This is the kind of thing that gets you a very poor recommendation to the judge.
There are also a metric sh*t-ton of questions about his nominally Italian wife (but maybe she’s Russian?) who he married after all of this blew up, and has been saying very strange things publicly.
5Hmmmm! OK. There are “community service” sentences that can break the best of us, especially if the judge gets really, really creative. How about five years of community service scrubbing the latrines in a homeless shelter – – with a very tiny toothbrush. Time will be subtracted from the sentence based on how pure the potty is when he gets done.
6Too bad the jerk was born here or his citizenship could receive the Jeff Sessions treatment. But as a convicted felon that should slow down his fiancée from joining him here. Maybe they can go to her home country or a place recommended by Putin.
7Translated: It wasn’t George’s fault he got sucked into the fast women and easy money lifestyle. It could have happened to anybody.
Nice to see all the Trump Russian collusion lawyers are up to date with the many intricacies of the ‘Dog ate my homework’ defense.
8This smells like the affuenza defence Ethan Crouch used to avoid prison after killing people.
9I ‘ve had lots of bosses in my life, but not one of them I considered my Master.
10He should be put in prison for his own protection, he doesn’t know right from wrong.
Well, isn’t he a special snowflake!
11I just keep wondering about little Georgie P’s birth order.
I’m guessing either only child, or baby of the family. And definitely the only boy. How else could he have turned out so feckless, irresponsible, and entitled?
12He reminds me of Renfield, from Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
13When he was a teen, one of my son’s friends complained “Your mom blames me for everything I do.”
Somehow this reminded me of that.
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