Claims of Hillary Clinton ?dirt? pitched to Trump adviser ?not true,? professor linked to Russia probe says...

Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com.Claims that a Maltese academic offered “dirt” on Hillary Clinton to a former Trump campaign adviser are “absolutely … not true,” the professor is heard saying on a newly released audio recording, according to a British newspaper.Professor Joseph Mifsud made the remarks in October 2017 to a reporter from The Telegraph of London, the newspaper claimed Thursday in a story promoting its “Crossfire” podcast.The paper’s website includes an audio clip of 1 minute and 33 seconds  of the reporter, Robert Mendick, purportedly talking with Mifsud, whose whereabouts have been unknown in recent years.TRUMP DENIES INTERFERING IN ROGER STONE CASE, STAYS MUM ON POSSIBLE PARDON“Absolutely this is not true,” a voice said to be Mifsud’s is heard saying on the recording, denying the claims that helped trigger the two-year investigation that ended with former special counsel Robert Mueller opting not to file criminal charges against President Trump.The then-candidate Trump’s team was accused of seeking potentially damaging information about Clinton, the Republican Trump’s Democratic opponent in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.The events that were later investigated were said to have begun when Mifsud met at a London hotel with George Papadopolous, then a foreign policy adviser who was working for the Trump campaign.In the clip, the reporter asks Mifsud if he met with Papadopoulos in London in April 2016.