Article snippet: He said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday: In a new book entitled Deep State Target, Papadopoulos details what he says happened after he signed up to be a foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign in March 2016, and found himself in the middle of a plot by Obama administration law enforcement and intelligence officials to investigate and take down Trump. The book’s release on Tuesday came just days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded his investigation, finding no collusion, conspiracy, or coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia. However, “current and former” officials cited allegations against Papadopoulos as the reason the Federal Bureau of Investigation opened an investigation on the Trump campaign. Their story reportedly was that a Maltese professor named Joseph Mifsud told Papadopoulos the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton in the form of thousands of emails, and Papadopoulos passed that on during a meeting at a bar with Australian diplomat Alexander Downer in London, prompting Downer to tell U.S. officials, and prompting the FBI investigation. However, Mifsud’s lawyer would later tell CNN and other outlets that the professor was never a Russian agent, but instead working on behalf of Western intelligence. “Mifsud’s own lawyer, the day before I testified in front of Congress, told the world two things — one, please stop writing about my client as a Russian agent or we will sue you, because he was not a Russi... Link to the full article to read more