A former advisor to President Donald Trump who admitted lying to federal investigators about his contacts with Russians announced Monday he is running for a US Congress seat in California.
"I'm running for the 25th congressional district," George Papadopoulos told Fox News.
"I'm here to promote the America-first agenda, and to enact legislation that has real-life consequences for the American people."
Papadopoulos spent 12 days in jail after his guilty plea, and subsequently wrote a book about what he describes as "the plot to bring down President Trump."
In a Twitter post Papadopoulos said the nation needs "fighters, principled men/women with true conviction in the party's platform who put America first."
On Fox he said California, whose government and representatives are largely Democratic, has "tremendous potential," but that "the governing apparatus and the party in this state has driven it right into the ground."