Deep State Target: How I Got Caught in the Crosshairs of the Plot to Bring Down President Trump

by George Papadopoulos

When that entreaty failed, Halper approached Clovis himself with a late-August email, telling him he’d been in contact with Page, and that Page suggested the two men talk. A few days later, they met. According to Clovis, Halper pitched himself as a China expert—slightly different than the Mediterranean wizard he pretended to be with me. What was Halper’s game? Clovis, in an interview with the Washington Examiner, says the whole point was to get me: “I think [Halper] was using his meeting with me to give him bona fides to talk to George Papadopoulos. He used Carter Page to get to me and he used me to get to George. George was the target. I think George was the target all along.”