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    Thumbs up AP Exclusive: Manafort had plan to benefit Putin government

    Hey wait, didn't Kellyanne, Pubis & Trump himself just tell us that Pauley was just a bit player in the Trump campaign? LoL - he ran the damn thing, and not long after he arrived - PooF went the GOP plank on protecting the Ukraine. Then Paul lied, didn't reveal his ties to Putin as required, and everyone repeated it like good little ditto monkeys.

    Another day, another Donnie Dumpster Russia fire - amiright

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests.

    Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse. Manafort pitched the plans to Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.

    "We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success," Manafort wrote in the 2005 memo to Deripaska. The effort, Manafort wrote, "will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government."


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    https://www.apnews.com/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a

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    he was only involved in the campaign for a limited time in a limited way.

    lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by del View Post
    he was only involved in the campaign for a limited time in a limited way.

    lol
    Erin Burnett torched that one TWO DAYS AGO!

    CNN’s Erin Burnett on Monday slammed Sean Spicer’s claim that Paul Manafort was only tangentially involved with Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, quipping, “I guess that would go in the category of an ‘alternative fact.’”

    https://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/eri...s-credibility/

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    Quote Originally Posted by del View Post
    he was only involved in the campaign for a limited time in a limited way.

    lol
    And Manafort was fired/resigned.
    It's ok if you disagree with me. I can't force you to be right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    Hey wait, didn't Kellyanne, Pubis & Trump himself just tell us that Pauley was just a bit player in the Trump campaign? LoL - he ran the damn thing, and not long after he arrived - PooF went the GOP plank on protecting the Ukraine. Then Paul lied, didn't reveal his ties to Putin as required, and everyone repeated it like good little ditto monkeys. Another day, another Donnie Dumpster Russia fire - amiright
    No, you are not right. The plank was strengthened.

    Moreover, as a political strategist he is a hired gun. As a lawyer, you could argue that I'm also a hired gun. I am hired to represent clients. He is hired to advance the interests. It is his job. I don't always agree with my clients but it's my job to advance their interest. I think you can understand that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    No, you are not right. The plank was strengthened.

    Moreover, as a political strategist he is a hired gun. As a lawyer, you could argue that I'm also a hired gun. I am hired to represent clients. He is hired to advance the interests. It is his job. I don't always agree with my clients but it's my job to advance their interest. I think you can understand that.
    Cool - but he was required to reveal those facts and tell the truth .. why did so many of the Trumpkins LIE?

    Sorry - but lying and obfuscation tends to indicate GUILT.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    No, you are not right. The plank was strengthened.

    Moreover, as a political strategist he is a hired gun. As a lawyer, you could argue that I'm also a hired gun. I am hired to represent clients. He is hired to advance the interests. It is his job. I don't always agree with my clients but it's my job to advance their interest. I think you can understand that.
    i don't know why you persist in saying the plank was strengthened.

    it's simply untrue, but at least the republic is saved, right?

    It started when platform committee member Diana Denman tried to insert language calling for the U.S. to provide lethal defensive weapons to the Ukrainian government, which is fighting a separatist insurrection backed by Russia. Denman says she had no idea she was "going into a fire fight," calling it "an interesting exchange, to say the least."
    Denman is a long time GOP activist from Texas. When she presented her proposal during a platform subcommittee meeting last month, "two gentleman," whom Denman said were part of the Trump campaign, came over, looked at the language, and asked that it be set aside for further review.She says after further discussion the pair "had to make some calls and clear it." She says they found the language was still too strong. The Trump campaign convinced the platform committee to change Denman's proposal. It went from calling on the U.S. to provide Ukraine "lethal defensive weapons" to the more benign phrase "appropriate assistance."
    http://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876...aid-to-ukraine

    The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform won’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington.
    Throughout the campaign, Trump has been dismissive of calls for supporting the Ukraine government as it fights an ongoing Russian-led intervention. Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, worked as a lobbyist for the Russian-backed former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych for more than a decade.
    Still, Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...dbf71#comments

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    Quote Originally Posted by del View Post
    i don't know why you persist in saying the plank was strengthened.

    it's simply untrue, but at least the republic is saved, right?
    The excuses will never cease - Putin could come out today and reveal absolutely everything backed up by documentation and they'd still be in denial ....

    Probably say something like - well, Putin is a thug who's not to be believed.

    Not sure why we bother at this point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bo-4 View Post
    The excuses will never cease - Putin could come out today and reveal absolutely everything backed up by documentation and they'd still be in denial ....

    Probably say something like - well, Putin is a thug who's not to be believed.

    Not sure why we bother at this point.
    Because the assumption you just put forth is stupid.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hanger4 View Post
    Because the assumption you just put forth is stupid.

    Again - not sure why we bother at this point.



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