{"id":597,"date":"2019-05-02T17:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/?p=597"},"modified":"2019-05-02T17:55:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:55:20","slug":"f-b-i-sent-investigator-azra-turk-posing-as-assistant-to-meet-with-trump-aide-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/05\/02\/f-b-i-sent-investigator-azra-turk-posing-as-assistant-to-meet-with-trump-aide-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"F.B.I. Sent Investigator &#8220;Azra Turk&#8221; Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, asked a direct question: Was the Trump campaign working with Russia?<\/p>\n<p>The woman had set up the meeting to discuss foreign policy issues. But she was actually a government investigator posing as a research assistant, according to people familiar with the operation. The F.B.I. sent her to London as part of the counterintelligence inquiry opened that summer to better understand the Trump campaign\u2019s links to Russia. &#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/politics\/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR0sp5o79E6CZSW2pqHarE8gUvJVvdGRWCIpJVZStCGD1pMhjDq6OpcRSXQ\">NYT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-text=\"F.B.I. Sent Investigator Posing as Assistant to Meet With Trump Aide in 2016\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/02\/us\/politics\/fbi-government-investigator-trump.html?fbclid=IwAR0sp5o79E6CZSW2pqHarE8gUvJVvdGRWCIpJVZStCGD1pMhjDq6OpcRSXQ\" data-hashtags=\"AzraTurk\" data-show-count=\"false\">Tweet<\/a><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conversation at a London bar in September 2016 took a strange turn when the woman sitting across from George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser, asked a direct question: Was the Trump campaign working with Russia? The woman had set up the meeting to discuss foreign policy issues. But she was actually a government investigator<a href=\"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/2019\/05\/02\/f-b-i-sent-investigator-azra-turk-posing-as-assistant-to-meet-with-trump-aide-in-2016\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centripetal4c.com\/totherepublic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}