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Along with Flynn, the most triumphant figure in this category is perhaps George Papadopoulos.

Papadopoulos was convicted of lying to the FBI about his interactions with a European professor and potential Russian agent who offered, during the 2016 campaign, to connect him with top Kremlin officials who had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton.

Papadopoulos had worked his way onto the Trump campaign’s foreign policy team via Ben Carson’s campaign, though after he was ensnared in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, Trump publicly called Papadopoulos a virtually unknown, “young, low-level volunteer” and “proven liar.”

Still, the incident helped Papadopoulos rise from obscurity: He served just 12 days in prison in 2018 but was happy to publish a book with the grandiose title Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump.

In recent years, he and his wife, Simona Mangiante Papadopoulos, have spread election distrust abroad, doing conservative European media hits, often to discuss Trump’s 2024 campaign.