“Fragmentary” evidence suggests that Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and a close associate of his may have had ties to Russia’s hacking of the 2016 Clinton campaign and the subsequent campaign to leak the stolen documents, a Republican-led Senate committee said on Tuesday.
I’m thinking “close” means “working with.” Had yearly counter-intel briefings on my job for 35 years and there’s so many alarm bells here. Though us mere mortals need to follow the law. And please don’t get me started on OCI mitigation plans, etc. That’s for just us losers, too.
The Party of Putin is sad.
Besides Trump, how many Republicans are Putin puppets?
Will the NRA except more donations from Russia?
Where is Mitch?
I’ll be very surprised if he does. You’re a designated fall guy, Paul.
Anyone out there still believe its not the crime but the cover-up that gets you in the shit?
Cover-ups can work just fine, thank you very much.
Fragmentary…
Kilimnik served as “a channel for coordination on the GRU hack-and-leak operation.”
And… internal Trump polling data that Manafort offered to Deripaska
= Liddle Marco is LYING BIGLY!
Let’s not forget “Russia if you are listening…”
Call a spade a spade = Trump and Trump Campaign staff coordinated, colluded and conspired with Russia to steal the 2016 election from HRC!
Could somebody please find a window and redact Manafort?
It was indeed GOP-led, but one could always picture Warner squeezing Burr behind that podium, so let us give Dems credit here.
Really, the fact that this is bipartisan from a Republican Senate means it has more weight with people…it’s bad enough as it is, and it’s good that it came out now. You can bet that something like this is still going on behind the scenes, whether with active cooperation or just an “understanding” that Russia will help Trump win again.
A clear understanding of what happened will come out in the future, and it will be damming for the Trump and Republicans simply because we’ll know that they were helped, and that they gladly accepted that help (even if it was kept quiet). It’s the exact opposite of what should happen…and, really, it needs a thorough investigation that can’t be hampered by the Republican party, so that new laws can be passed and checks put in place to make sure foreigners are not allowed to interfere in our elections ever again.
Russian intelligence asset now in WH set to pardon Russian agent. The GOP led report also called out Trump for obstructing the investigation or as the Brits would have it, perverting the course of justice. Manafort and Stone have direct knowledge of Trump’s conspiracy and they ain’t talkin’. Presidential Crimes Commission should be first order of business for President Biden
Now let’s see the Senate Intel Committee bipartisanly tell Johnson to STFU.
This report, signed by the Republicans on the committee makes it pretty clear that Manafort is the opposite of the kind of person a pardon is intended for. He’s (at best) a patsy for Russian intelligence operations, and I think anyone reading the report will have to conclude that he’s far more than that, considering the extent of his efforts to keep private his correspondence with Kilimnik.
If Trump were to pardon Manafort with that kind of pall clinging to him, that would be one more nail in the coffin that Democrats could hammer on in the election. “President pardons GOP-identified Russian Intelligence Asset, Paul Manafort” I’m sure that someone with better PR skills than me could write a snazzier headline, but it would be yet another own goal from Team Trump.
“Fake news!” “Deep state!!” I can just see the tweets now…
I totally agree. Trump would be 900 kinds of a fool to pardon him. At least before the election.
I can think of at least 100 in Congress alone.
This isn’t even new information: I recall Isikoff and Corn citing a high Obama national security oficial saying, ‘Manafort’s a Russian stooge,’ in their Russian Roulette.
Manafort’s palling with the Kremlin were common knowledge to American national security prior to the start of the election: his retention by the Drumpf campaign was, at best, a result of poor vetting.
Not that incompetence isn’t a pattern here, but might it be a cover?
NRA =Natural Russian Ally
Oleg Deripaska might be willing to help you with that project.
