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The Commie connection to this GOP candidateās campaign just gets more and more pronounced. Soon even Trumpās base like Sarah Palin will be able to see it from her back porch?
Gee, all of this Russian connection stuff is such a surprise.
Especially while Ivanka is vacationing in Croatia with Putinās main squeeze Wendi Murdoch.
Just in time for Dad to start getting his classified briefings. I hope they give him comic books, which should at least keep his attention a bit longer (pictures! color!) than all those long boring wordsā¦
Manafort is such a foul and depraved piece of work, and like Trump, ONLY money manages to keep his attention for long and he doesnāt care how much damage he causes or who he hurts as long as he profits from his actions. Heās a soul sucking parasite, much like his boss.
The āOctober Surpriseā may be Manafort in a perp-walk.
I am certain that the GOP members of Congress will call for an immediate and full investigation of this matter.
"A man is known by the company he keeps."
And Manafortās ācompanyā reeks of despotism, repression and the destruction of all aspects of personal liberty in the pursuit of power and money:
Trump: "Thereās something going on folksā¦Thereās something going on."
[Trumpās Campaign Chairman, Paul Manafort, is a notorious spin doctor for Third World dictators, a leader of the ātorturerās lobbyā who represented and lobbied for a true rogueās gallery, including the Democratic Republic of the Congoās (then Zaireās) Mobutu Sese Seko, the Philippinesā Ferdinand Marcos, Somaliaās Siad Barre, Sani Abacha of Nigeria, and Kenyaās Daniel arap Moi; other clients include Jonas Savimbi, the leader of the Angolan human-rights-abusing rebel guerilla group UNITA, and the Kashmiri American Council: a front for the terrorist-dealing Pakistani government intelligence service ISI that had helped create the Taliban, among other nefarious dealings.]
Jesus, what fucking rancid grease lawyer signed off on this for the Podesta Group? Itās not just the FARA violation. Itās that the potential for a FARA violation also opens them up to a money laundering charge. And Manafort? Oh yeah, heās going to be having some talks with some humorless G-men in the company of his attorney.
There are several kinds of āopinions of counselā people can buy. There are the āI have looked at this and I believe this deal is completely legalā opinions and then there are the āI have looked at this and I have concluded that there is a strained argument that I can make under an even more strained definition of the term āgood faithā that in itself negates the true meaning of āgood faithā that it might just be legal.ā The former are often required in financial transactions. The latter are used by people to try to prove they did not have criminal intent after they get indicted. And there are a range of letters between these two that accompany creative tax swindles to hopefully keep their clients from being indicted, their degree of certitute basically determining whether or not you just have to pay the tax or whether you also have to pay a penalty and, if so, how big a penalty.
The lawyers who deal in the preparation of these letters are typically soul-dead but rich, people who have crossed so many lines over the course of their careers that their consciences are long since obliterated and they think the idea of āright and wrongā are quaint and naive. But FFS, the only way any lawyer would sign off on this was if he had deliberately concocted a paper trail that would āproveā that he hadnāt actually been given all the facts by his client, to create a double-deniablity loopāthe lawyer gets to claim his client didnāt give him all the facts, the client claims he didnāt know his lawyer needed the facts that were withheld and so innocently relied on his advice. And hopefully the lobbyist client can even claim that its client didnāt give it all the facts.
But Jesus wept, how fucking stupid do you have to be to take on this kind of firm-destroying penal risk for a lousy million bucks?
Trump is a clown, a stooge, a useful Kremlin idiot deserving laughter and contempt. Unfortunately and tragically, expect a Putin instigated āfalse flagā domestic terror incident in October.
I wonder if/when Alex Jonesā paranoid legions will turn on him? There must be some who can see this conspiracy.
Only five years? Donāt get busted with a joint or youād be doing 7 to 10.
Does this explain todayās āI gotta be meā campaign shake up?
Depends on your creditors. It is damn costly to run a lobbying operation. Sometimes you owe money to people who donāt like not being paid. .
This guy is a Russian agent he violated the law now FBI stop with the E mails and do your job lock this guy up.
I am probably stating the obvious but clearly there is smoke here. Keep on looking for that fire.
**is it a coincidence that Manafortās role is being diminished within campaign? Did Manafort get the same classified brief Trump did? **
Hey everybody, look over there! E-mails! Benghazi!
So maybe this is why Manafort is saying he didnāt receive those clandestine cash payments. He was just acting as a bagman for various shell ānonprofitsā.
Canāt read the full article (have no subscription), but The Times seems to have a relevant interesting pieceā¦
Newbie here. Signed up to test my hypothesis on yāall.
The trump campaign is a strategy being operated on behalf of russian interests, designed to destabilize the West.
By fracturing and possibly destroying the republican party, the status quo in DC is upended. Conservative voters will be splintered into various, rival tribes.
Insurgency against the establishment is their mantra. The next time you hear āanti-establishmentā be very cautious. Remember, the Democrats narrowly avoided such a splintering event with the āBernie Bros Revoltā.
Bottom line: be careful what you wish for. The demise of the gop may benefit putinās interests, which may deal a severe, possibly crippling blow, to our democracy.
The smoke is rising from that mysterious last minute rewriting of the GOP platform plank urging US support of democratic forces in Ukraine, including supplying of arms if necessary. Suddenly, according to mystified members of the platform committee, āTrump forcesā stepped in and rewrote the plank to soften it and remove the reference to supplying arms.
As I have said before, exactly WHO in the GOP would be that interested in the wording of this particular plank? Can you think of ANYONE in the GOP who would not be in favor of opposing Russian expansion? Itās been a staple of GOP policy for decades. And yet someoneā¦a member of the Trump team according to sources on the sceneā¦came in and made the change.
Now just who might that be? I could not possibly guess. And donāt guess Trump because he has no interest in policy and even less in the platform of the political party he is using as a tool to an end. His position was clearlyā¦let em write whatever they want. I am not interested in it, nobody reads it and Iām going to do what my gut tells me. HAD to be Manafort. Had to beā¦and why is increasingly obvious.