The "young, low level volunteer named George"

That description of Papadopoulos, as a campaign nobody, doesn't jibe with the picture painted by the court documents unsealed on Monday or with Trump's own words.

In a Spring 2016 interview with the Washington Post editorial board, then-candidate Trump was asked about who was advising him on foreign policy. He began listing names, and listed Papadopoulos second, referring to him as an "energy and oil consultant, excellent guy."

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Hardly knew him. Of course, with Trump, he could have not known him from Adam and still said he was an excellent guy because he was on the team. Doesn't matter. The top members of the campaign staff knew him. Only....

Papadopoulos also appears in an Instagram photo from March 2016, posted by Trump, with the caption "Meeting with my national security team in #WashingtonDC."

Ooops.

Yeah, THAT George.

"George Papadopoulous, a 2009 graduate of DePaul University, has described himself in several lengthy published résumés as an oil and gas consultant and expert in eastern Mediterranean energy policy.

But his claim to have served for several years as a fellow at the Washington-based Hudson Institute was refuted by David Tell, Hudson senior fellow and director of public affairs, who said the institute's 'records indicate that Mr. Papadopoulos started here as an unpaid intern in 2011 and subsequently provided some contractual research assistance to one of our senior fellows.'

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He also cites the delivery of a keynote address at the 2008 annual American Hellenic Institute Foundation Conference. The conference agenda that year noted Papadopoulos's participation on a youth panel with other students; it lists 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis as the keynote speaker."

Hey. Who DOESN'T pad their resumé?

DePaul University professor Richard Farkas taught Papadopoulos [in] in Russian politics and Russian foreign policy [and] described Papadopoulos as "zealous and a bit simple."

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"There's no likelihood he could access [the Russian government] effectively. I think he probably was just embellishing," said Farkas, who has taught at DePaul for more than 40 years. "I've been teaching about this part of the world and know people in Moscow. I don't think I could access people at that level, not at least without really working it."

Sounds like a snobby professor to me.  "If I, with my fabulous credentials couldn't access the Russian government, how could my lowly student?"  Papadopoulos was a business associate of Paul Manafort, who was a business associate of Russian mobsters, who would be able to "access" the Russian government. And, Professor Farkas is missing the main point: Mueller has indicted and flipped George Papadopolous. If he were simply embellishing, he wouldn' be in the spot he's in.  Pay attention, professor.

Prior to joining the Trump camp, Papadopoulos also advised Republican Ben Carson's campaign.

Just a low level volunteer, I assume?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.