Simona Mangiante, the fiancée of George Papadopoulos, says that President Donald Trump and his associates are lying when they say that the former Trump campaign aide was just a lowly "coffee boy."
In an interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos, Mangiante says that her fiancée "set up meetings with leaders all over the world" on behalf of the Trump campaign and was "constantly in touch with high-level officials in the campaign," including Michael Flynn and then-campaign chairman Steve Bannon.
Mangiante says that while she has emails to prove this, her attorneys have instructed her to not release them to reporters at this time.
She also insists that her fiance is not a traitor, and says that he has been "very brave and decent to take responsibility" for lying to the FBI about his attempts to arrange meetings between Trump campaign officials and officials within the Russian government.
And finally, she tells Stephanopoulos that her fiance is merely "the first domino" to fall when it comes to the Russia investigation -- thus hinting that there are still many more former campaign officials that are about to fall.
Watch excerpts of the interview below.
Papadopoulos' fiancee tells me he "never took an initiative without the blessing of the campaign" and he was "constantly in touch with higher level officials of the campaign" https://t.co/DsIDXsAzNR @ABC pic.twitter.com/oBedxVrlmq
— GeorgeStephanopoulos (@GStephanopoulos) December 8, 2017
“The First Domino” — that’s how George Papadopoulos' fiancee would title his upcoming memoir. https://t.co/ndBgkJHEoz pic.twitter.com/qurPF85Dmp
— GeorgeStephanopoulos (@GStephanopoulos) December 8, 2017
