The meeting between [[George Papadopoulos]], a low-level Trump campaign volunteer, and Alexander Downer was represented in America [[fake news]] media as a chance encounter in a London pub.<ref> It wasn't. It was an entrapment sting designed to justify [[FBI]] surveillance of the Trump campaign.
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The meeting between [[George Papadopoulos]], a low-level Trump campaign volunteer, and Alexander Downer was represented in America [[fake news]] media as a chance encounter in a London pub.<ref>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/12/30/us/politics/how-fbi-russia-investigation-began-george-papadopoulos.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur </ref> It wasn't. It was an entrapment sting designed to justify [[FBI]] surveillance of the Trump campaign.