Or the fucking subject line: Russia - Clinton - private and confidential
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In his defense, Manafort received 50 Russia related campaign emails each day. There was nothing about this one that really stood out.
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What a unique combination in Manafort, i.e. corrupt and stupid.
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Especially since we know Manafort is great because Trump only hires the best, most Tremendous people.
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It must be sad to be as cynical as you all are. 
But hereās the thing Iām kind of astonished by: How all these chiselers could have been crowding the thin edge of legality so insistently all their lives and only now go tumbling over the edge wailing into oblivion like the end of the stateroom scene in āA Night at the Operaā combined with the end of āDon Giovanni.ā I believe in the randomness of matter and so forth as it goes boiling out from the Big Bang, and I believe sometimes it forms seeming patterns that arenāt really created by a higher power even if it seems that way, but dayum it sure seems like thereās karma at work some times. Like now, is one of the times I mean. Dayum.
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When Trumps lie they lie about things everyone knows are obviously, instantly provably false. Manafortās old school; when he lies itās not instantly falsifiable. I donāt know what he read and didnāt read. Itās absurd, it makes no sense, you canāt believe it. But you canāt instantly point to the proof otherwise. So thereās that. Itās a mastery of old-fashioned competence and craft that the Trumps canāt claim.
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I seem to remember learning something to the effect that "Ignorance is no excuse. . . "
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The proverbial rat/sinking ship scenario. Fucking moron. Sad.
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Too much time in the Russian money pool wrinkled their judgment?
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Exactly. Well stated.
ETA: The Trumps donāt even try really. Theyāve been so successful with their āwhat are you going to do about itā lie-blitz approach that Iām sure that they are way out of practice at crafting anything that will stand up at all.
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I donāt read most of my email either. I usually have the opposite problem, tho, trying to sound like I know whatās in emails Iāve been sentā¦ādinner at your sisterās? Tonight?.. oh right, of course, the emailā¦ā
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Manafort didnāt have to read the email, he helped set up the meeting more than likely.
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That theory is gonna get severely tested.
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As in the āChewbacca Defense?ā
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He knew it was about the campaign and Russian-related so he didnāt need to read the whole chain. The name of the Russian government attorney wasnāt in the emails, but who cares what her name is going in - am I right, Paul? And remember, the Russian attorney says Manafort spent much of the meeting looking at his phone - probably going back to the emails to look for the spelling of her name and maybe a phone number.
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Paul Manafort is every dumbass on āCOPSā who ever got busted with drugs in his pocket and screamed ābut these aināt my pants!ā or āIāve never seen these shorts before!ā as his defense.
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Earlier on MSNBC, Ali Velshi said that there were so many people being thrown under the bus that there werenāt any people left on the bus.
Not quite. Cheetolini is still wandering the aisle inside.
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Simpler explanation: the bigger the lie, the harder you can shut down your detractors. The Trumpire innovates on this by multiplexing the lie and the rationale. Hence the name for Their technique: āhonest hyperboleā.
Now to watch Them āpurgeā and āsurgeā at the same time. Itās already getting deep on Townhall 
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Believing that he IS the bus. Looking forward to this being disproved.
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