d. George Papadopoulos Learns That Russia Has “Dirt” in the Form of Clinton Emails Whatever Sessions’s precise words at the March 31 meeting, Papadopoulos did not understand Sessions or anyone else in the Trump Campaign to have directed that he refrain from making further efforts to arrange a meeting between the Campaign and the Russian government. To the contrary, Papadopoulos told the Office that he understood the Campaign to be supportive of his efforts to 441 arrange such a meeting. Accordingly, when he returned to London, 442 Papadopoulos resumed those efforts. Throughout April 2016, Papadopoulos continued to correspond with, meet 443 with, and seek Russia contacts through Mifsud and, at times, Polonskaya. For example, within a week of her initial March 24 meeting with him, Polonskaya attempted to send Papadopoulos a text message—which email exchanges show to have been drafted or edited by Mifsud—addressing 444 Papadopoulos’s “wish to engage with the Russian Federation.” When Papadopoulos learned from Mifsud that Polonskaya had tried to message him, he 445 sent her an email seeking another meeting. Polonskaya responded the next day that she was “back in St. Petersburg” but “would be very pleased to support [Papadopoulos’s] initiatives between our two countries” and “to meet [him] 446 again.” Papadopoulos stated in reply that he thought “a good step” would be to introduce him to “the Russian Ambassador in London,” and that he would like to talk to the ambassador, “or anyone else you recommend, about a potential 447 foreign policy trip to Russia.” Mifsud, who had been copied on the email exchanges, replied on the morning of April 11, 2016. He wrote, “This is already been agreed. I am flying to Moscow on the 18th for a Valdai meeting, plus other meetings at the Duma. 448 We will talk tomorrow.” The two bodies referenced by Mifsud are part of or associated with the Russian government: the Duma is a Russian legislative 449 assembly, while “Valdai” refers to the Valdai Discussion Club, a Moscow- 450 based group that “is close to Russia’s foreign-policy establishment.” 451 Papadopoulos thanked Mifsud and said that he would see him “tomorrow.” For her part, Polonskaya responded that she had “already alerted my personal