George Papadopoulos’ wife Simona Papadopoulos announces she’s testifying before Congress, and no one can figure out what’s going on
Former Donald Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and agreed to cooperate with the probe. Then Mueller accused Papadopoulos of having continued to lie to him. Papadopoulos publicly threatened to rip up his plea deal, even as his wife Simona Papadopoulos spouted one bizarre conspiracy theory on Twitter after another. George ended up relenting and going to prison for fourteen days, and that seemed to be the end of the saga. But now Simona says she’s about to testify before Congress.
On Saturday evening, Simona Papadopoulos posted this on Twitter: “Looking forward my testimony to the senate on March 11. I will cooperate as always being truthful and transparent. Hopefully my witness [sic] will be helpful.” To be clear, no one in the Senate has said anything publicly about any such testimony, and no one is quite sure what she’s talking about.
We’re not even sure which Senate committee she expects to be testifying for, or whether it’s supposed to be in public or private, or whether George is also being called to testify. But this should come with some fireworks. George and Simona have both spent the past several months spinning a vast conspiracy theory that paints George as being the target of several world governments. Just yesterday, George made the surreal claim that “When that FISA warrant on me is declassified, the narrative of the last year will be upended.”
Recently the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Trump-Russia investigation seemed to go off the rails when Republican Chairman Richard Burr claimed that his probe had found no direct evidence of collusion, even as multiple Democrats on the committee publicly pushed back against him. We don’t know if this is the committee that’s supposedly bringing in Simona Papadopoulos to testify. But again, this could coming from any Senate committee, if it’s coming from the Senate at all. Stay tuned, because there has to be more to this story.
