These don’t strike me as the kind of people you screw with.
We need to drone strike this asshole and everyone like him…fuck Russia and all of these disgusting pigs.
Yep. These crooked international gangsters shouldn’t be worried about Mueller. They should be worried about assassination–if they’re lucky.
Let’s turn Paul Manafort loose with a public ceremony thanking him for his complete cooperation with the investigation into Russian money laundering.
As much as I appreciate Michael Wolff and other writers like him, THESE are the books we should be reading.
“To prep for the second round, Tymoshenko hired AKPD, a consulting firm run by David Axelrod…” (Manafort) hired two firms in Washington — Mercury Public Affairs and the Podesta Group" “Skadden Arps’ work was led by Gregory B. Craig…”
I know that this stuff is not the point of the article, but holy hell the decision by these erstwhile Democrats to get involved in this Ukrainian mobster freak show bespeaks colossally bad judgement.
Polonium, nerve agent, or jail is the menu of bad options available now for Mr. Manafort.
These don’t strike me as the kind of people who screw with.
That’s what I don’t get—how in God’s name did Manafort and Gates think they could get away with cheating these thugs? Were they not aware of the incredible violence that accompanied the struggle for control of Russian industries after the collapse of the Soviet state? You might as well try to cheat the Columbian cocaine cartels and the Japanese yakuza while you’re at it.
What did the Ukrainian people do to deserve this?
And just because I can…
Have any of these Ukrainian/Russian oligarchs made their billionaire fortunes in anything other than looting the natural extractive resources (gas, oil, mining etc.) of the Ukrainian and Russian people?
Seems to me that Manafort should be cooperating with Mueller to get the best deal possible… if he ends up in prison, it’s perfectly easy to shank somebody in the shower when the guards are very conveniently not around.
Trump & the GOP’s policies echo Yanukovych’s Ukrainian program – stifle the press, jail your opponents, appoint incompetents, loot the treasury.
Is there an ALEC for the political representatives of wannabe kleptocrats in oligarchies?
So many parallels between the trump adminstration and Yanukovych’s, right down to the desire for closer ties to Russia. We’re doing our best to become a failed post-Soviet state.
Thanks, GOP! Thanks, GOP voters - and thanks to your “economic anxiety”, too!
It seems that the more we learn about the incredibly corrupt doings of Manafort and co., the more the name of Semion Mogilevich–the Keyser Soze of the world of Russian crime–keeps popping up. What do you want to bet that Trump will ultimately be found to be directly linked to him?
And what do you want to bet the Republicans and Trump supporters will say, “who cares”?
Mos’ def’.
Skimming from the grift?
Of course they won’t care. They’ll be impressed that he’s associated with the biggest and the best crime bosses.