{"id":13132,"date":"2017-10-31T02:09:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T01:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/31\/trump-russia-inquiry-heats-up-as-three-key-aides-indicted\/"},"modified":"2017-10-31T02:09:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T01:09:46","slug":"trump-russia-inquiry-heats-up-as-three-key-aides-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=13132","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Russia inquiry heats up as three key aides indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-adviser George Papadopoulos pleads guilty over Kremlin contactsPaul Manafort and Rick Gates plead not guilty to money laundering and fraudTrump-Russia inquiry \u2013 live updatesThe special investigation into Russian election meddling closed in dramatically on Donald Trump on Monday, as news broke that a former foreign policy adviser pleaded guilty to perjury over his contacts with Russians linked to the Kremlin, and the president\u2019s former campaign manager and another aide faced charges of money laundering.In a day of rapid and surprising developments in Washington, George Papadopolous, the former foreign policy adviser, was revealed to have pleaded guilty earlier this month to lying to FBI investigators over his contacts last year with two people with apparently close ties to the Russian government. One was an unnamed professor \u2013 identified by the Washington Post as Joseph Mifsud \u2013 who offered \u201cdirt\u201d on Hillary Clinton. Another was a woman who portrayed herself as \u201cPutin\u2019s niece\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2017\/oct\/30\/paul-manafort-robert-mueller-donald-trump-russia-inquiry\" target=\"_blank\">Trump-Russia inquiry heats up as three key aides indicted<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-adviser George Papadopoulos pleads guilty over Kremlin contactsPaul Manafort and Rick Gates plead not guilty to money laundering and fraudTrump-Russia inquiry \u2013 live updatesThe special investigation into Russian election meddling closed in dramatically on Donald Trump on Monday, as news broke that a former foreign policy adviser pleaded guilty to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}