Good one Rick, keep workshopping that. It wasnât Trump, it was the shady characters he hired because heâs too innocent and trusting. Jesus, CNN, I know itâs hard to find non-buffoon surrogates but thatâs just weak.
âNobody wanted to work for him, so he had to go and get a lot of the â you know, Paul Manafort, who hadnât been active in Republican politics in forever, and was not well respected, had all sorts of issues, The bottom line is, he had some people around him.â
And besides, Putin told him to hire Manafort. It wasnât his fault. He didnât have a choice.
This is a cheap shot at Trump, but it is also BS. Trump hired Manafort because he attracts and is attracted to crooks.
a crook who would work for free, 'cuz tRump is a cheap ass motherfucker.
There is so much nonsense on so many levels in Santorumâs statement that one doesnât even know where to start to pick the stupidity apart.
Iâm sure Muellerâs team will reach the same logical and reasonable conclusion.
Letâs see what the shelf life is of this new defense, soon to be repeated by a chorus of Republicans âŚ
Trump and Manafort have known each other since no later than the early 1980s, when Manafort was in partnership with Roger Stone, Charlie Black and (associate) Lee Atwater. Roy Coen was a mutual friend of all five. Trump and Manafort bought and developed adjacent properties on Long Island and were neighors for a number of years. So Trump was no naif when it came to Manafort. Besides, it APPEARS that Manafortâs involvement was something Putin wanted to happen, and Trump was interested in keeping Putin happy for a number of reasons, including capital for his golf course and resort acquisitions, the promise of Trump Tower Moscow, and assistance that Putin could arrange to have provided to the Trump Campaign. Moreover, the Trump Campaign was designed and operated to run on the very same model that Manafort had developed for Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine.
What a shock to find out that Santorum the Pundit is very bit as corrupt as Santorum the Senator was incompetent.
And so we officially move from the âNO COLLUSIONâ phase of Trumpâs defense to the âOK, LOTS OF COLLUSION BUT TRUMP WAS CLUELESSâ phase. Up next: âOK, TRUMP KNEW ABOUT IT BUT IT WAS NO BIG DEAL.â
Final step: âEVERYBODY DOES IT!!!â
Santorum added there was a 99 percent chance that then-campaign manager Manafort was a âlone wolfâ in his dealings with Russia and the rest of the Trump campaign was unaware of his actions.
<img src="/uploads/default/original/4X/e/6/d/e6dff1c3a34e44bac73e31816c71efadd44f683f.png" width="298" height="169">Nice try, Rick. The problem is Trump has known Manafort, a GOP operative and associate of Roger Stone, for DECADES. Trump picked the guy he wanted for two reasons - he was a crook, and he had as many ties to Putin as the Trump Empire. Manafort was already one of âthe familyâ.
IMHO, this disclosure confirms the conspiracy and is probably only the tip of the iceberg Mueller will âbeachâ in the next 6 months. The hard part for you, Rick, is that your party was completely complicit. Nobody with an effing brain should ever put a GOP candidate in a position of trust again. The whole party took part in this and betrayed the entire country. Traitors, everyone one. They should set the gallows up on Pennsylvania Ave. and make examples of everyone associated, like the assasins of Lincoln.
Rick needs to take another hike on the Appalachian Trail and get lost permanently.
If youâre looking for a not-buffoon and you end up with Rick Santorum, then somewhere along the line, something went terribly, terribly wrong.
Okay, weâve got the balloon. Now bring on the trial.
I agree that Rick Santorum needs to get lost permanently, but it was Mark Sanford that was âhiking the Appalachian Trailâ when he was actually âgetting some Argentinian Tailâ with his lover Maria Belen.
So this is the new excuse thatâs being trotted out? HahHHahahahahahahahahahaha. GOP, you are so fucked.
Why is this guy still a thing? Does anything he say ever make him worth listening to? I donât get it. Besides going on CNN, the man hasnât done a fucking thing with his life since leaving office. Heâs just one more shill among many.
"Final step: âEVERYBODY DOES IT!!!â
Thereâs one more step after that â âOK, TRUMPâS A TREACHEROUS SCUMBAG. HOW ABOUT THEM TAX CUTS?â
Santorum added there was a 99 percent chance that then-campaign manager Manafort was a âlone wolfâ in his dealings with Russia and the rest of the Trump campaign was unaware of his actions.
When itâs the campaign manager taking action, that takes it out of the âlone wolfâ status and is an actual campaign activity. If the campaign manager doesnât speak for the campaign, who does?
Yes, I know the âappropriateâ response is âNobodyâ. Nobody spoke for the campaign and we have no idea how there were so many Russian contacts that we denied for years.