New Mueller Docs Tie Manafort More Closely To Ukraine Pressure Campaign | Talking Points Memo

New documents from the Mueller investigation tie Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort more closely to the beginnings of President Trump’s Ukraine pressure campaign.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1282588
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What the hell is this “Tsunami Friday” for stories detrimental to the crime syndicate known as “Donnie?”

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NABU’s involvement in Manafort’s downfall has become a pillar of theories that the Obama administration conspired with Ukraine to hurt the Trump campaign.

It’s gobsmacking that even Trumpers are stupid enough to believe that was a thing. If Obama had wanted to find a sneaky way to hurt the Trump campaign, there were a lot easier and more effective ways than going after one of his many campaign managers.

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Looks like things are going in that direction, and the flood waters are rising up on Donnie the Don.

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I’m hoping for a Happy Hour news break next.

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So Mueller time came a decade late, better late than never…

Sucks to be you, Donnie. The Wall is closing in and I don’t mean the one Mexico didn’t pay for…

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Tsunami is right. As gas prices rise, the stock market tanks and the insane man behind the curtain keeps trying to justify his actions it is only going to get worse for him. Trump is cornered.

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Fortunately, Donnie still has Infrastructure Weak to save him…

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I still want to know why Manafort pushed pence on trump. BTW anyone seen q-tip lately?

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Mother grounded him for having immoral thoughts about Melanoma…

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Key to Trump and his allies’ sense of grievance is …

… anything and everything.

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I really don’t understand how anything about Manafort was going to be seen as going after Trump. Manafort a man who had spent a lot of time in Ukraine where Trump wasn’t a player, wasn’t going to build a Tower, and the Trump kids had no side hustles going on.

Who here can remember why Cory was replaced with Paulie? Because if it was over shoving that female reporter that seems to so long ago and not even remotely bad in what was happening in TrumpWorld since.

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Mueller chose to stop this investigation which was related to ongoing crimes? Or did he transfer all these into other departments to be shut down by other Trump cronies?

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With the complete support and assurance of the GOP elite.

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Again - I’m wondering exactly HOW any ‘new revelations’ - can be used to somehow enhance or leverage the case for impeachment in the Senate ‘trial’. (Yeah )

It’s all glorious fodder for the narrative. More ‘public airing’ of the corruption and collusion with Russia - but, is it valuable to the House’s case in the Senate? Assuming it is allowed to be presented.

I’m not unhappy with this sudden tsunami - I think its great news for the Dem’s public position, puts more pressure on Senate Republican’s to … wait, I was going to say ‘do the honorable thing’ - but it’s apparent no new evidence of corruption is going to generate anything more than ‘serious concern’ or ‘troubling comments’ from the talking heads.

Someone please explain how this and Parnas’ phone - can be ‘attached’ somehow to the two counts from the impeachment. I’m hoping it can somehow - but I don’t see where.

Thanks any legal scholars who want to jump in.

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If that’s what they are being fed that’s what they will gobble up. They are hungry and eager for anything to hide behind; truth doesn’t matter anymore to them. If your pose a question they can’t truthfully answer they just trot out another lie.
That’s why I have stopped trying to argue with them.

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When all is said and done, there might not be enough piano strings available for tying up the corrupt and treasonous.

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Crime pays, and it pays well.

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So you say this really this originated with Konstant Komment the Russian tea that poisoned our discourse after being consumed sequentially by Manafort, Ghouliani, and Benadick Donnie two scoops.

Making more sense now after a few alliterations with similar words and crimes.

But we all still wonder, has the FBI caught on?

No one should forget that Manaford (who also was the millionaire Mercers’ agent) faked plane trouble to keep Trump overnight and push Pence on him. I intensely dislike Christie, but he would have leaked a lot (perhaps tipping Mueller’s investigation) and there’s a small chance he would have started Amendment 25 against Trump (unless Putin compromised him, too).

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