Ex-Trump campaign aide Papadopoulos says applied for pardon

Former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos, the first person charged in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation, said on Tuesday his lawyers have applied for a pardon and that he may withdraw his guilty plea."My lawyers have applied for a pardon from the president for me," Papadopoulos said in an interview with Reuters, adding that the request was made a few days ago.Papadopoulos, who was plucked out of obscurity to work as a foreign policy adviser for Donald Trump during the 2