Spies, War, Trump: We Still Don’t Really Understand What Paul Manafort Is Up To - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Manafort is another handmaid to the rich who got into the right school and discovered that there was money in saying the things the rich could not.

The pathology of money and its greedy flatterers.

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Little Marco Rubio (potential VP pick) was once Chairman of the Foreign Intelligence Committee that wrote a report proving that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and that Manafort was a de facto Russian stooge and spy. Many different examples of such behavior were cited in the report. Manafort was convicted of bad things and even pled guilty to some, plus lying to his interlocutors when he was not supposed to. How will Little Marco reply to tough questions about all of this? We wait for this inquiry. Hurry up journalists! Get a bottle of water ready Little Marco!

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I would imagine the intel community is using the briefings to communicate with America’s adversaries. In the event Trump sits on their microphone, Manafort is needed to make sure the Russians get clear briefings of what is said.

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Check out Manafort in the documentary about Roger Stone.

Manafort says he “could get Mickey Mouse elected” if he wanted to. No dirty tricks, no lies, no innuendos, no malfeasance, are outside of Manafort’s reach.

Seriously, check out Manafort in “Get Me Roger Stone.”

If he gets involved, nobody should be surprised at what is done. He and his cronies should be followed by the best of the best.

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Maybe he thought he could help him find “more money”.

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Perhaps Manafort is called by the Lord High Trump to beg tributes from the Oligarchs of the Onion-Domed East. Quickly. Quickly!

Man needs mucho money by Monday.

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And lets hope he reaps a whirlwind of trouble for himself. (For himself, and not for the country.)

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Pardon or not, with his track record
and conviction - at this point, who
cares about his pardon - how can
Manafort be allowed anywhere
near any political campaign in this
country!? Bat shite crazy stuff!

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“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” --Inigo Montoya

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This article is excellent work by a top specialist; thanks so much to Kovensky and TPM for delivering on the Manafort topic.

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The orange man is crazy and will do anything to stay out of prison. Afterall the only time he won was with Manafort.

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was he looking for work in 2022?

NBC News:
March 23, 2022, 10:43 AM PDT
By Tom Winter, Jonathan Dienst and Dareh Gregorian
Former Trump campaign chairman and presidential pardon recipient Paul Manafort was blocked from leaving the country Sunday because his U.S. passport was not valid, a Miami-Dade police spokesperson told NBC News on Wednesday.
Manafort, 72, was attempting to fly from Miami to Dubai

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He needs a new grift to get some more bling and an ostrich jacket. Karma will come for him, I hope.

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he may need to be careful where he steps…

he and trump both knew the builder of the Crocus City Mall which was attacked:

from Wiki:

Aras Iskanderovich Agalarov (Azerbaijani born 8 November 1955) is an Azerbaijani billionaire[1] real estate developer. Listed in Forbes as the 51st richest Russian in 2015, several sources have described him as a Russian oligarch.

…Agalarov then opened the first Crocus Inter store, which became a retail business that includes malls offering housewares.[6] This moved him into property development, where he built the Crocus City Mall, the largest shopping centre in Moscow.

In January 2013, Agalarov and his son visited Las Vegas, Nevada, after Donald Trump, the beauty pageant’s owner, announced at Miss Universe 2012 that the next competition would be hosted by Agalarov in Moscow.[7] He paid Trump $20 million to host the pageant.[5] In November 2013, President Vladimir Putin awarded Agalarov the Russian Order of Honor.[7] That month, Agalarov hosted Miss Universe 2013 at his Crocus City Hall.[7][8]

Agalarov’s son, Emin, helped arrange Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya’s meeting with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort in Trump Tower on 9 June 2016.[13][14] Following the meeting, Agalarov wired $1.2 million to a bank in New Jersey controlled by Emin, a transfer which is being investigated by American law enforcement.[8]

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Manafort was/is deep in Ukraine’s politics. Trump wants Ukraine to surrender to Putin. These two don’t mix yet trump is installing Manafort into the MAGAverse as a sort of #2 guy for “foreign affairs”. And Manafort is a felon. Color me confused and feeling like all of this is deep in pig shit

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There’s been a horrific terrorist attack in Moscow that a sunni jihadi terrorist group has apparently taken responsibility for. Scores dead, > 100 injured.

I really believed that Skanky, Wanky, and Cuck had eradicated this scourge, and brought everlasting peace to the Middle East as well.

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Liddle Marco commissioned Christopher Steele who exposed Skanky’s adventures with the pee-hookers and his role as an agent for Russian intelligence.

Liddle Marco also tried to impress his daughters and voters with dick jokes on the campaign trail in response to Skanky bragging about his dirty toadstool.

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I would like to hear more about the daughter’s embarrassing phone hacks ( by Ukrainian Intelligence?). Me thinks there’s some pure gold there.

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Moscow is an odd target for a sunni jihadi terrorist group. I wonder if they were triggered by the music being played in the concert hall during the holy month? Does the fasting-binging cycle cause emotional instability that triggers aggressive and violent behaviors in certain susceptible individuals? There was one other terrorist attack and an instance elsewhere this month where someone playing music was brutally attacked. The mainstream media never covered these terrorist acts.

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If the NSA and CIA are being their “quietest” then they are functioning properly.

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