The meeting between [[George Papadopoulos]], a low-level Trump campaign volunteer, and Alexander Downer was portrayed in American [[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.
A lawyer from the Australian embassy contacted Papadopoulos fours days in advance and asked to arrange a meeting between Papadopoulos and Downer. At the meeting, Papadopoulos was ordered to "leave [UK Prime Minister] [[David Cameron]] alone." Papadopoulos had suggested in a London newspaper that Cameron owed Trump an apology for comments critical of Trump. Cameron colluded with [[Hillary Clinton]] and [[Barack Obama]] to murder [[Muammar Gaddafi]] - an ally of the UK and the US, and <ref>https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/us/politics/hillary-clinton-libya.html</ref> - an action that caused the resurgence of black-[[Africa]]n [[slavery]] in [[Libya]]. Obama said at the time it was done for "humanitarian" purposes.
At the time Papadopoulos quit the [[Ben Carson]] campaign to volunteer for Trump, Papadopoulos was lured to London with an offer on a board of a front group known as the London Centre of International Law Practice (LCILP) which he unwittingly accepted to pad his resume. Italian spy Prof. [[Josef Mifsud]] also worked with group. Mifsud introduced Papadopoulos to Russian nationals living in the UK and working with retired UK intelligence officials. One pretended to be [[Putin]]'s neice, and the other worked with a Russian think tank in London. Mifsud claimed to have access to Hillary Clinton's emails.