Papadopoulos' response to his sentence

On Friday, Papadopoulos was sentenced to 14 days in federal prison for making false statements to the FBI during the early days of the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. On Sunday, he was interviewed on ABC’s “This Week.”

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"I found myself as somebody who worked incredibly hard over the past year with the campaign to actually have the candidate Trump be elected,” he said. “And then I found myself pinned between the Department of Justice and the sitting president and having probing questions that I thought might incriminate the sitting president.”

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“I didn’t understand really the nature of what was going on,” he said. “Of course I’m remorseful, I’m contrite, and I did lie, but, you know, you’re just taken off guard, I guess, in a such a momentous situation where you’re potentially sitting there, incriminating the president, even though of course I don’t think I did.”

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The former foreign policy adviser pleaded guilty in October to lying to the FBI about his meetings in London with a Maltese professor, Joseph Mifsud.

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Papadopoulos said he chose to keep the professor’s claim under wraps because Paul Manafort — shortly after becoming the Trump campaign chairman in May 2016 — quashed the idea of a potential summit between then-candidate Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin of Russia, which Papadopoulos had been trying to broker.

“As far as I remember, it didn’t seem that Paul Manafort wanted to pursue this meeting,” Papadopoulos said on Sunday. “So as far as I remember, why on Earth would I then, after I was shut down in a, I guess in a formal way, after a lot of vacillating between the campaign, would I then tell the campaign something like that?”

  Politico

To snag an important position in the Trump cabal?

As far as he can remember.

Papadopoulos also said he had “no opinion on” and “no knowledge of” Trump’s alleged attempts to obstruct Mueller’s investigation, and could not answer whether the special counsel would be able to demonstrate coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

“I have no idea,” he said on Sunday. “All I can say is that my testimony might have helped move something towards that, but I have no idea.”

Sounds like an idea to me.

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