Ex-Trump aide who went to jail in Mueller probe is running for House seat vacated by Katie Hill
George Papadopoulos, an ex-campaign advisor to President Donald Trump, said on Monday that he will run for California's 25th Congressional District seat.
The seat was vacated by Democrat Katie Hill, who resigned less than a year into her freshman term amid a sex scandal.George Papadopoulos, who went to jail on charges related to his work for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, said Monday that he is running for the House seat vacated by Democrat Katie Hill, who resigned less than a year into her freshman term amid a sex scandal.
"It's a district which the Republicans held for 26 years up until recently, when Katie Hill, the now-disgraced congresswoman recently resigned due to her unethical behavior both in the halls of Congress and in the district that she represented," he said, making the announcement on the Fox News program "Fox & Friends." Trump is known to be a fervent viewer of "Fox & Friends.
In a Nov. 13 email asking supporters to donate to his then-potential campaign, Papadopoulos said he "bore the brunt of the Deep State's attack on our president during and after he won election in 2016. The political establishment did everything they could to railroad me and take out President Trump."an announcement for a month and had filed paperwork on Oct. 29 with the Federal Election Commission indicating he would run.
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