But Papadopoulos is now considering withdrawing his guilty plea and his legal team have asked the Trump administration for a presidential pardon.In an interview with Fox News this week, the president did not rule it out."I don't want to talk about pardons now, but I can say it's so sad on so many levels."
He hopes his new book Deep State Target will help the process though and he is wasting no time in criticising Robert Mueller.to Attorney General William Barr, Papadopoulos says he doesn't believe Mueller acted"honourably" and claims the"basis and foundation" of the Russia investigation was"corrupted".
"You're then in front of a group of star prosecutors - the Mueller team. They're very intimidating. You don't want to get on the wrong side of these people. I certainly didn't want to. It was confusing.""I'm not the professional," he said."I'm not the intelligence operative. I'm not the investigator.