By Geoff Earle, Deputy U.s. Political Editor For Dailymail.com
Published: 23:14 BST, 2 May 2019 | Updated: 23:15 BST, 2 May 2019
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The FBI as part of its counterintelligence probe arranged for an 'attractive' woman to approach Trump advisor George Papadopoulos for information when he made contact with a government informant.
Papadopoulos' contact with academic Stefan Halper, a Cambridge University professor who has served as an informant, had already been revealed amid the Mueller probe.
And Papadopoulos has already written about his encounter with a woman he described as a curveacious 'sexy bottle blonde in her thirties.'
It was revealed Thursady that the FBI also dispatched another person, Azra Turk, to accompany Halper as part of its counterintelligence probe. Her task was to ascertain whether the Trump camp was working with Russia – and she asked Papadopoulos that question directly, the New York Times reported.
Trump foreign policy advisor George Papadopoulos had an encounter with a woman named Azra Turk who the FBI dispatched to seek information from him. He described as a curveacious 'sexy bottle blonde in her thirties' and writes that he discerned she was part of a 'honey trap'
According to the Times, she was a government investigator posing as Halper's research assistant. She was not operating under her real name.
President Trump has fumed that the early days of the Russia probe amounted to
