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class="e-byline__job-title" itemprop="jobTitle">US Editor</span> </span> </span> <time class="e-published-date u-meta" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2020-02-13T06:00+0000" data-test="time"> 13 February 2020 • 6:00am </time> </div> </div> <span class="grid-col grid-col-12 article__separator article__separator--show-xs" aria-hidden="true"></span> <span class="grid-col grid-col-12 article__separator article__separator--hide-xs" aria-hidden="true"></span> <div class="grid-col grid-col-12 article__layout article__layout--content"> <div itemprop="articleBody" data-js="article-body"> <div class="html-embed section"> <span></span> <aside id="a62b8292-f4aa-43c9-a60f-0416279869d2" data-data-uri="https://particle-api.eip.telegraph.co.uk/particles/a62b8292-f4aa-43c9-a60f-0416279869d2" data-html-uri="https://cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk/a62b8292-f4aa-43c9-a60f-0416279869d2.html" class="tmg-particle embed" data-reg-required="false" data-reg-redirect="" data-sub-required="false" 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investigation into ties between <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/donald-trump/">Donald Trump</a>'s campaign and the Kremlin before the 2016 election, disputes the central claim and denies links to the Russia government. </p> <p>Asked whether he told a Trump campaign adviser that the Russians had "dirt" on Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton, as US officials have claimed, Mr Mifsud is heard saying "absolutely this is not true". </p> <p>You can listen to the clip below:</p> </div> <div class="html-embed section"> <span></span> <aside id="7f76fb5a-220e-44c8-9f3e-04f0a2cd1388" data-data-uri="https://particle-api.eip.telegraph.co.uk/particles/7f76fb5a-220e-44c8-9f3e-04f0a2cd1388" data-html-uri="https://cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk/7f76fb5a-220e-44c8-9f3e-04f0a2cd1388.html" class="tmg-particle embed" data-reg-required="false" data-reg-redirect="" data-sub-required="false" data-sub-redirect="" data-widget-type="embed" 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(min-width: 480px) 480px, 100vw" data-alt="Comments allegedly made by Joseph Mifsud to a Trump campaign adviser triggered the FBI's probe into Russian election meddling"> <noscript> <img class="responsive lazy-image__img article-body-image__source" src="/web/20200215005801im_/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2018/08/19/TELEMMGLPICT000145142929_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqedkAEilW4a0ZEdF_CvTIr9NaCsaPzax9hRiIADAZl1A.jpegimwidth=480" alt="Comments allegedly made by Joseph Mifsud to a Trump campaign adviser triggered the FBI's probe into Russian election meddling"/> </noscript> </div> <button class="e-caption-trigger" aria-label="Open caption" data-aria-open="Open caption" data-aria-close="Close caption" data-js="caption-trigger" data-test="caption-trigger"> <svg class="e-caption-trigger__icon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 20 20"> <path d="M9.375 15V8.75H10.625V15H9.375ZM8.75 6.25L10 5L11.25 6.25L10 7.5L8.75 6.25Z"/> <path d="M10 1.25C12.3125 1.25 14.5625 2.1875 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It was eventually taken over by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/robert-mueller/">special counsel Robert Mueller</a> and hung over the Trump presidency for almost two years. </p> <p>Mr Mueller concluded Russia had systematically interfered in the election, trying to help Mr Trump and hinder Ms Clinton, but said there was no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.</p> <p>The specific trigger for the probe came when Prof Mifsud met with<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/14/exclusive-george-papadopoulos-reveals-plan-run-congress-first/"> George Papadopoulos, a young Trump campaign foreign policy adviser</a>, in the five-star Andaz Hotel in east London.</p> <p>Mr Papadopoulos, pictured below, was trying to set up a summit between Mr Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Prof Mifsud, who had just returned from Moscow, allegedly told Mr Papadopoulos that the Russians had "dirt" on Ms Clinton.</p> <p>The meeting was on April 26 2016 - critically, before the release of hacked Democratic emails which roiled Ms Clinton's campaign.</p> </div> <figure itemscope="true" data-test="article-body-image" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" data-js="article-body-image" itemprop="image" class="article-body-image section"> <meta itemprop="url" content="/web/20200215005801/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2018/12/14/TELEMMGLPICT000183471416_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg"/> <meta itemprop="width" content="0"/> <meta itemprop="height" content="0"/> <div class="article-body-image__container"> <div class="lazy-image article-body-image__source " style="padding-top:66.68%;" data-js="LazyImage" data-class="lazy-image__img" data-src="/web/20200215005801oe_/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2018/12/14/TELEMMGLPICT000183471416_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpegimwidth=480" data-srcset=" /content/dam/news/2018/12/14/TELEMMGLPICT000183471416_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=350 350w, /content/dam/news/2018/12/14/TELEMMGLPICT000183471416_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=480 480w, /content/dam/news/2018/12/14/TELEMMGLPICT000183471416_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=680 680w, /content/dam/news/2018/12/14/TELEMMGLPICT000183471416_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=960 960w, /content/dam/news/2018/12/14/TELEMMGLPICT000183471416_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpeg?imwidth=1280 1280w" data-sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 960px, (min-width: 768px) 680px, (min-width: 480px) 480px, 100vw" data-alt="George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser in 2016, met with Prof Mifsud a number of times in London"> <noscript> <img class="responsive lazy-image__img article-body-image__source" src="/web/20200215005801im_/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2018/12/14/TELEMMGLPICT000183471416_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqpVlberWd9EgFPZtcLiMQfyf2A9a6I9YchsjMeADBa08.jpegimwidth=480" alt="George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser in 2016, met with Prof Mifsud a number of times in London"/> </noscript> </div> <button class="e-caption-trigger" aria-label="Open caption" data-aria-open="Open caption" data-aria-close="Close caption" data-js="caption-trigger" data-test="caption-trigger"> <svg class="e-caption-trigger__icon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 20 20"> <path d="M9.375 15V8.75H10.625V15H9.375ZM8.75 6.25L10 5L11.25 6.25L10 7.5L8.75 6.25Z"/> <path d="M10 1.25C12.3125 1.25 14.5625 2.1875 16.1875 3.8125C17.8125 5.4375 18.75 7.6875 18.75 10C18.75 12.3125 17.8125 14.5625 16.1875 16.1875C14.5625 17.8125 12.3125 18.75 10 18.75C7.6875 18.75 5.4375 17.8125 3.8125 16.1875C2.1875 14.5625 1.25 12.3125 1.25 10C1.25 7.6875 2.1875 5.4375 3.8125 3.8125C5.4375 2.1875 7.6875 1.25 10 1.25ZM10 0C4.5 0 0 4.5 0 10C0 15.5 4.5 20 10 20C15.5 20 20 15.5 20 10C20 4.5 15.5 0 10 0Z"/> </svg> </button> </div> <figcaption class="e-caption u-meta e-caption--has-separator" data-js="caption"> <span itemprop="caption" data-test="caption"> George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser in 2016, met with Prof Mifsud a number of times in London </span> <span class="e-caption__credit" itemprop="copyrightHolder" data-test="credit"> <span class="e-caption__credit-description">Credit</span>: Rupert Thorpe </span> </figcaption> </figure> <div data-test="article-body-text" class="article-body-text section"> <p>When Telegraph reporter Robert Mendick contacted Prof Mifsud on Oct 30 2017, the day his involvement was detailed in court filings, he confirmed talking to Mr Papadopoulos, saying “we met a couple of times in London” and “went for a coffee or something like that”. </p> <p>However he denied making the comment. "Absolutely this is not true", Prof Mifsud can be heard saying when told he was being accused of saying Russia had dirt on Ms Clinton. "Absolutely, absolutely", he adds. </p> <p>Prof Mifsud also dismisses the idea he said "we have dirt". "Why would I say ‘we’”, Prof Mifsud says. "My visits to the Russian Federation are visa by visa because I don’t even have a multiple entry visa to Russia.</p> <p>“The last visa that I got to Russia was given to me through the Saudis because I was there for the seminar on Yemen. So it has nothing to do with the Russians.”</p> <p>That account is disputed by Mr Papadopoulos, who gave an interview revealing his recollections for the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://playpodca.st/crossfire">Crossfire</a> podcast, and US investigators who have since detailed what they believe happened. </p> </div> <div class="html-embed section"> <span></span> <aside id="ac91a1de-2820-4b85-843b-b4bf839b9955" data-data-uri="https://particle-api.eip.telegraph.co.uk/particles/ac91a1de-2820-4b85-843b-b4bf839b9955" data-html-uri="https://cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk/ac91a1de-2820-4b85-843b-b4bf839b9955.html" class="tmg-particle breakout-box" data-reg-required="false" data-reg-redirect="" data-sub-required="false" data-sub-redirect="" data-widget-type="breakout-box" data-widget-title="Key players | The Russian election meddling probe's origins" data-widget-size="responsive" data-widget-static="false" data-expandable="true" data-embeddable="true"><a title="Key players | The Russian election meddling probe's origins" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk/ac91a1de-2820-4b85-843b-b4bf839b9955.html">Key players | The Russian election meddling probe's origins</a></aside><script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801js_/https://cf.eip.telegraph.co.uk/particle-embed/js/particle.js" defer></script> </div> <div data-test="article-body-text" class="article-body-text section"> <p>Mr Papadopoulos said Prof Mifsud told him of Russia that “they have thousands of Hillary Clinton's emails”. He also described his reaction to hearing the comment. </p> <p>Mr Papadopoulos said: "I was just looking at him thinking, how did you get this information? And what I got was 'they told me, they told me'. So no names, no, nothing. Just ‘they told me’." </p> <p>He added of his reaction: “There are many thoughts going through your head, many thoughts. And that's why I call it 'the bomb', because I had a flash of thoughts going through my head. And most of it was actually panic, at that moment.”</p> <p>Mr Mueller's 448-page report on Russian election meddling, published in March 2018, also concludes Prof Mifsud made the comment. </p> <p>"Mifsud told Papadopoulos that he had met with high-level Russian government officials during his recent trip to Moscow," one part read. “Mifsud also said that, on the trip, he learned that the Russians had obtained 'dirt' on candidate Hillary Clinton.”</p> </div> <figure itemscope="true" data-test="article-body-image" itemtype="https://schema.org/ImageObject" data-js="article-body-image" itemprop="image" class="article-body-image section"> <meta itemprop="url" content="/web/20200215005801/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/09/19/trump-clinton-split_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg"/> <meta itemprop="width" content="0"/> <meta itemprop="height" content="0"/> <div class="article-body-image__container"> <div class="lazy-image article-body-image__source " style="padding-top:62.55%;" data-js="LazyImage" data-class="lazy-image__img" data-src="/web/20200215005801oe_/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/09/19/trump-clinton-split_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpgimwidth=480" data-srcset=" /content/dam/news/2016/09/19/trump-clinton-split_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg?imwidth=350 350w, /content/dam/news/2016/09/19/trump-clinton-split_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg?imwidth=480 480w, /content/dam/news/2016/09/19/trump-clinton-split_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg?imwidth=680 680w, /content/dam/news/2016/09/19/trump-clinton-split_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg?imwidth=960 960w, /content/dam/news/2016/09/19/trump-clinton-split_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpg?imwidth=1280 1280w" data-sizes="(min-width: 1280px) 960px, (min-width: 768px) 680px, (min-width: 480px) 480px, 100vw" data-alt="Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, upending expectations"> <noscript> <img class="responsive lazy-image__img article-body-image__source" src="/web/20200215005801im_/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/news/2016/09/19/trump-clinton-split_trans_NvBQzQNjv4Bqeo_i_u9APj8RuoebjoAHt0k9u7HhRJvuo-ZLenGRumA.jpgimwidth=480" alt="Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, upending expectations"/> </noscript> </div> <button class="e-caption-trigger" aria-label="Open caption" data-aria-open="Open caption" data-aria-close="Close caption" data-js="caption-trigger" data-test="caption-trigger"> <svg class="e-caption-trigger__icon" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewbox="0 0 20 20"> <path d="M9.375 15V8.75H10.625V15H9.375ZM8.75 6.25L10 5L11.25 6.25L10 7.5L8.75 6.25Z"/> <path d="M10 1.25C12.3125 1.25 14.5625 2.1875 16.1875 3.8125C17.8125 5.4375 18.75 7.6875 18.75 10C18.75 12.3125 17.8125 14.5625 16.1875 16.1875C14.5625 17.8125 12.3125 18.75 10 18.75C7.6875 18.75 5.4375 17.8125 3.8125 16.1875C2.1875 14.5625 1.25 12.3125 1.25 10C1.25 7.6875 2.1875 5.4375 3.8125 3.8125C5.4375 2.1875 7.6875 1.25 10 1.25ZM10 0C4.5 0 0 4.5 0 10C0 15.5 4.5 20 10 20C15.5 20 20 15.5 20 10C20 4.5 15.5 0 10 0Z"/> </svg> </button> </div> <figcaption class="e-caption u-meta " data-js="caption"> <span itemprop="caption" data-test="caption"> Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, upending expectations </span> </figcaption> </figure> <div data-test="article-body-text" class="article-body-text section"> <p>Mr Mueller's report also claims Prof Mifud "maintained various Russian contacts". Names are redacted but one is said to have worked for the Internet Research Agency, the Russian troll factory that bombarded US voters with disinformation. </p> <p>Prof Mifsud's current whereabouts are unknown but he remains a focus of constant speculation. Trump allies have suggested Prof Mifsud may have been a Western intelligence agent deliberately compromising the Trump campaign. </p> <p>William Barr, the Trump-appointed US attorney general overseeing a probe into the origins of the FBI's Russia investigation, recently travelled to Italy where he reportedly asked intelligence figures about Prof Mifsud. </p> <p>Prof Mifsud's comment only became known because Mr Papadopoulos allegedly mentioned it during drinks with an Australian diplomat called Alexander Downer in London.</p> <p>When Mr Downer later realised its significance he alerted the FBI, who then opened their probe. Mr Trump has always dismissed the Russia meddling investigation as a "hoax" and a "witch hunt" pushed by his political enemies.</p> <p>Mr Mueller ultimately concluded there was no criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the 2016 vote. </p> <p><em>Subscribe to Crossfire for free on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/crossfire/id1495059576">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9yc3MuYXJ0MTkuY29tL2Nyb3NzZmlyZQ">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://open.spotify.com/show/4r9NhRDfrdjWrP14bZCH24">Spotify</a>,<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200215005801/https://pca.st/z32widyg"> Pocket Casts</a> or search 'Crossfire' on your podcast app.</em></p> </div> </div> <div class="article__end-meta"> <div class="article__related"> <div class="related-topics" data-test="related-topics"> <div 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