Manafort is moving on, brushing up on his Korean for that job interview with Kim Jong-un.
he was to close to cheeto jesusâs dealing with the Russian mob and governmentâŚ
In Soviet Russia, campaign resigns from you!!
But ⌠but ⌠but ⌠Trump pivoted yesterday with his teleprompter apology!
He told Trump not to tweet the taco bowl. Whatever else heâs done in life, thatâll always be to his credit.
We hardly knew ye. And thatâs OK.
Rapid expansion and contraction suggests a massive supernova is in the offingâŚ
Does this mean he goes back to Russia with love? Finally clears out his desk in his Ukraine office? Or, looks for a new shell company and offshore account to move his laundered money to before the law comes knocking on his door?
Good news I guess is that he and tRumpf can still remain pen pals.
The question remains: Trump, Putin, are they still a thing? Absolutely, as long as the Trump campaignâs pro-Putin Ukraine policy changes continue to be part of the GOP platform.
"Weâre about to find out how loyal Donald Trump is to Paul Manafort, the man running his campaign.
âSecret Ledger in Ukraine Lists Cash for Trump Aideâ is the headline on the front page of Mondayâs New York Times.
âHandwritten ledgers show $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort from (Viktor) Yanukovychâs pro-Russian political party from 2007 to 2012, according to Ukraineâs newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau. Investigators assert that the disbursements were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials,â Andrew E. Kramer, Mike McIntire and Barry Meier report from Kiev. âIn addition, criminal prosecutors are investigating a group of offshore shell companies that helped members of Mr. Yanukovychâs inner circle finance their lavish lifestyles . . . Among the hundreds of murky transactions these companies engaged in was an $18 million deal to sell Ukrainian cable television assets to a partnership put together by Mr. Manafort and a Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of President Vladimir V. Putin.â
Manafort out, Mercers in. Manafort had some success keeping Trump close to the Râs, the Mercers are anti-R.
Let the games begin!
Is that possible? Do you mean we havenât hit bottom yet?
Resigned for personal reasons. Needed family time. After time off to care for a sick puppy, will be looking forward to the next big and lucrative step in his career.
Lewindowskiâs revenge⌠CNN: you have a new hire to on-board.
I smell a big fat scandal involving Ukraine and Russia.
CNN of Fox will hire him by the end of next week.
Well, that canât be. Because it was a campaign âexpansionâ not him being replaced.
Unless TrumpetâŚlied?
Ironically, Manafort now becomes the scapegoat for everything said or done wrong by Trump or the Trump campaign.
The media is already running the Trump campaign spin that the reason Trump didnât pivot (and obviously last nightâs statement was totally pivoting, so all is forgiven) was purely because of Manafort. Even though there are mountains of evidence that Manafort was begging Trump to act more âpresidentialâ, nopeâŚhe is the one to blame for Trump not making the pivot.
All Russians ties? ManafortâŚeven Ivanka vacationing Putinâs girlfriendâŚManafort clearly arranged that. Attacks on the Khan family? Totally Manafort. Donations to veterans charities that didnât get paid? Well, that was because Manafort stole the checks out of the mail room! Melenia plagiarizing Michelle? Manafort changed the speech and put it in the teleprompter. Worse than an invisible gremlin! He did everything.
Heâs probably wishing he didnât take the job with Trump and stayed below the radar. His scumminess couldnât withstand the scrutiny of the press which had mostly ignored him until Trump, and now heâs like a Scooby Doo villain : âI would have got away with it if it werenât for you kids!â