Trump campaign organizer backs ND candidate

I have to admit that it sounded kind of crazy when I first heard the news that George Gigicos, one of US President Donald Trump's key campaign staffers in the runup to the 2016 elections, was in Greece helping New Democracy candidate Sofia Nikolaou in her campaign for a seat in Parliament in general elections later this year. There is very little information about him online, as I learned when researching a story about the US elections three years ago, but there he was just a few days ago, strolling around a farmers' market in the Athens suburb of Galatsi.

Dressed in a suit with a purple pocket square and well-polished shoes, he could have come across as out of place in such surroundings, but, no, he seemed right at home, waving to people and greeting them in American-accented Greek as he watched his candidate work the crowd with satisfaction. We had met earlier at Nikolaou...