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Who was George Papadopoulos watching on TV and why does it matter?

<thread> https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1264215800577171456
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In a previous thread, I made the case that it was likely that PapaD saw Judge Napolitano’s May 9, 2016 comments made on Fox News. https://twitter.com/SeekerOTL/status/1119264703862267905
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Judge Nap claimed that there was debate going on within the Kremlin over whether or not to release 20,000 of Hillary Clinton’s emails.
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But let’s go back further in time to find the origin of Judge Nap’s claim that “the Russians have Clinton’s emails.”
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On March 9, 2015, Judge Nap wrote a column asking what happened to Hillary Clinton 33,000 deleted emails from her private server.

He also raised the possibility that HRC’s political henchman Sidney Blumenthal’s emails were hacked.

https://www.unz.com/anapolitano/what-if-hillary-doesnt-care/
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On August 16, 2015, Christopher Farrell of Judicial Watch appeared on CSPAN and suggested the Russian intelligence services could have accessed Clinton’s private server.

He also mentions that Sidney Blumenthal’s email was hacked.
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4 days later, on August 19, 2015, Judge Nap wrote another column about Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails.

https://www.wnd.com/2015/08/will-deceptive-hillary-get-a-pass/
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On September 14th, Judge Nap was the keynote speaker at an event sponsored by Judicial Watch.

(numerous other heavy hitters were there as well)

https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-announces-september-14-leadership-summit-washington-corruption-and-the-transparency-crisis/
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Judge Nap’s speech focused primarily on those deleted emails and Clinton’s private server.

https://www.justice-integrity.org/887-conservative-watchdogs-decry-corrupt-dc-mainstream-on-hillary-immigration-issues
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As we moved into 2016, the subject of Clinton’s private server became a regular topic on Sean Hannity’s show (BleachBit!) and other Fox News programs.
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In “February or March” of 2016, Judicial Watch funded an investigation to discover if, indeed, Clinton’s server was infiltrated by a foreign entity.
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In March the investigation found potentially classified data of the “dark web.”

h/t wakeywakey16

(or maybe it's not "found" but "funded" in March. Why that's important later)
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In May 2016, Judge Nap appeared on Mornings with Maria on Fox Business News. He told viewers (to include possibly George Papadopoulos) that the Russians could be in possession of Clinton’s emails.

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It was the next day, May 6th, when PapaD *allegedly* suggested to a representative of the Australian government that the Russians may assist the Trump campaign by “the anonymous release of information that would be damaging to candidate Clinton.”
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As stated previously, on May 9th, Judge Nap stated definitively that the Russians had Clinton’s emails.
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On June 6, 2016, the FBI interviewed the defense contractor, Donald Berlin, hired by Judicial Watch. He turned over documents related to his investigation. https://twitter.com/walkafyre/status/1190715207494066176
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Included in the documents is the suggestion that the Russians did in fact hack Clinton’s server.

https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2019/09/09/clinton-libya_and_trump-russia_a_tale_of_two_probes_and_the_fbi_120083.html
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I don’t believe it’s a stretch to suggest that one of Judge Nap’s sources for his claim that the Russians had Hillary’s emails was someone associated with Judicial Watch or someone involved in the investigation funded by JW.
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(I would like to believe the Judge had more than 1 source)
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