Washington (CNN) Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his contacts with a professor who had ties to Russia, said Wednesday his legal team is seeking a pardon from President Donald Trump in order to clear his name.

"There's been so much disinformation and misunderstanding about who George Papadopoulos is, how he actually fits into (special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation) in the proper context and what he was doing for the Trump campaign and Trump transition team," Papadopoulos told CNN's John Berman on "New Day."

"So I am simply getting the facts out there for the public to consume, for the media to consume and then for them to articulate something completely different than has been said about me for the past two years. And, based on that, my lawyers believe, as they are the ones who formally submitted the application, that there's a basis for a pardon," he said.

Papadopoulos has released a new book, titled "Deep State Target," in which he claims that he did not actually lie to the FBI about his contacts with the professor, Joseph Mifsud, but rather was pressured into a plea agreement by Mueller's team.

Mueller, in Papadopoulos' court proceedings, said Papadopoulos' lies to the FBI in early 2017 were intentional and hurt the agency's ability to question, detain or arrest Mifsud when he was in Washington, DC, around that time.

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