Flynn in major trouble for speaking to Russia about sanctions

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Trump’s source of inspiration? Paul Manafort’s dark deeds and dubious clients

Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych had one rival locked up, and may have poisoned another. Trump’s dream?

It's hard to know exactly what set Trump off

It's always tempting to think that Trump is just too stupid to understand the danger he's in with the Mueller investigation, but this one might have set off some alarms, since these charges refer to a time when Gates was still with the campaign.

Manafort had been fired in August of 2016 so he wasn't an official member of the campaign at that time,

but he was often seen coming in and out of Trump Tower during the transition.

Manafort was advising the Trump team on how to handle the Russia probe.

Paul Manafort has reemerged as a player in the fight to shape the new administration ... after resigning under pressure as the chairman of Donald Trump's campaign this summer.

Manafort solidified his ties to the incoming White House when Trump selected Vice President-elect Mike Pence as his running mate in mid-July. Both men are Capitol Hill veterans:

Manafort as a lobbyist and Pence from his time as an Indiana congressman, with strong ties to the Republican establishment.

Recall that it was Manafort who engineered the choice of Pence

in the first place by manipulating Trump into dropping his first choice, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Rick Gates was also still visiting the White House last spring,

usually accompanying Trump's good friend Tom Barrack, the man who brought Manafort into the campaign in the first place.

White House has been able to say that Manafort and Gates' legal problems stemmed from their activities years in the past and had nothing to do with Trump.

That excuse looks as though it isn't going to hold.

if you wanted to hire someone to fix up the image of a crude, authoritarian demagogue for more civilized consumption, Manafort was your guy.

Of course Manafort wound up working for him.

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/22/tru...bious-clients/

nope, Trash, Manafort, Gates had no relaltionship.

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Trash Trembles As Lawrence O’Donnell Shows Why Manafort Tax Evasion Charges Are Big Trouble

O’Donnell said, “The new indictment says they concealed years of work for lobbying work for Ukraine. Quote, in total more than $75 million flowing through the offshore accounts,

Manafort with the assistance of Gates, laundered more than $30 million, income that he concealed from the United States department of the treasury, the department of justice and others.

Some of the charges which include fraudulently obtaining banks loans came after he became chairman of the Trump campaign.

This came less than a week after Mueller indicted 13 Russians for interfering with the election.

The “New York Times” reports that Robert Mueller could be trying to use these charges as leverage to get closer to the White House.

”If tax evasion is Mueller’s target, Trump needs to be very worried

Trump has refused to release his tax returns.

It is a certainty that Robert Mueller wants them, he already has Trump’s tax returns.

If the Special Counsel is going to look at financial crimes committed with foreign partners, the Trump Organization is the poster child for shady activity.

Donald Trump and his business have enough skeletons in their closet to bury the entire Trump operation.

Mueller is working his way up the food chain, and if he is looking at financial crimes, Trump, his family, and

associates should all be very worried, because Mueller is looking at the one spot where Trump bodies are most likely buried.

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02...iticus+USA+%29

[TSA]

It does not even matter now. You knew this would be wide-ranging. They are getting guys for lying and financial dealings; illegal due to restrictions and sanctions.

Thanks patriots.

And Nice job with Comey.

The special counsel investigation will most likely cost more than the what was laundered and obtained illegally by Manafort/Gates. Seem worth it to you? Expensive political charade you and I are paying for.

[TSA]

Trump’s source of inspiration? Paul Manafort’s dark deeds and dubious clients

Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych had one rival locked up, and may have poisoned another. Trump’s dream?

It's hard to know exactly what set Trump off

It's always tempting to think that Trump is just too stupid to understand the danger he's in with the Mueller investigation, but this one might have set off some alarms, since these charges refer to a time when Gates was still with the campaign.

Manafort had been fired in August of 2016 so he wasn't an official member of the campaign at that time,

but he was often seen coming in and out of Trump Tower during the transition.

Manafort was advising the Trump team on how to handle the Russia probe.

Paul Manafort has reemerged as a player in the fight to shape the new administration ... after resigning under pressure as the chairman of Donald Trump's campaign this summer.

Manafort solidified his ties to the incoming White House when Trump selected Vice President-elect Mike Pence as his running mate in mid-July. Both men are Capitol Hill veterans:

Manafort as a lobbyist and Pence from his time as an Indiana congressman, with strong ties to the Republican establishment.

Recall that it was Manafort who engineered the choice of Pence

in the first place by manipulating Trump into dropping his first choice, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Rick Gates was also still visiting the White House last spring,

usually accompanying Trump's good friend Tom Barrack, the man who brought Manafort into the campaign in the first place.

White House has been able to say that Manafort and Gates' legal problems stemmed from their activities years in the past and had nothing to do with Trump.

That excuse looks as though it isn't going to hold.

if you wanted to hire someone to fix up the image of a crude, authoritarian demagogue for more civilized consumption, Manafort was your guy.

Of course Manafort wound up working for him.

https://www.salon.com/2018/02/22/tru...bious-clients/

nope, Trash, Manafort, Gates had no relaltionship.

And Yanukovych didn’t have a a relationship with Skadden Arps, Clintons, and Obama

[djohn2oo8]

The special counsel investigation will most likely cost more than the what was laundered and obtained illegally by Manafort/Gates. Seem worth it to you? Expensive political charade you and I are paying for.

Now we have you on record justifying the crimes of money laundering and bank fraud.

[TSA]

Now we have you on record justifying the crimes of money laundering and bank fraud.

You have me on record saying a special counsel was a huge waste of tax payer money if Mueller is only indicting a Russian troll farm uncovered years ago and financial crimes that should have been prosecuted when the FBI knew about them in 2013.

[djohn2oo8]

You have me on record saying a special counsel was a huge waste of tax payer money if Mueller is only indicting a Russian troll farm uncovered years ago and financial crimes that should have been prosecuted when the FBI knew about them in 2013.

And yet you said no one would be indicted besides Susan Rice. Funny how you don't mention that multiple members of the Trump campaign and transition have been charged with crimes. Including Trump's own campaign manager who knows everything about Trump. Who vetted them?

[Chris]

[djohn2oo8]

lol Manafort bout to get his seized.

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Rachel Maddow Incredibly Ties Together Manafort, The Trump Campaign, and Financial Crimes


Maddow said:

For some reason times were tough and this stuff all happens in very close succession, all at once, late 2015 early 2016.

These guys are doing backflips allegedly flagrantly illegal backflips to try to get cash for Manafort and increasingly it was not working.

But then it all turned around.

For some reason manafort himself to the trump campaign as a full-time volunteer “I don’t need to get paid, I don’t have money problems.”

Then his money problems turn around.And, again, look at the timing here, look at the timing.

Between approximately 2016 and January 2017 manafort with the assistance of Gates sought and secured approximately $16 million.

$16 million in two loans from lender D. Finally, great relief. Money coming in.

Let’s put late 2015 and early 2016 behind them. Thank god for lender D.

I mean, they were still apparently ripping off lender D.

There was another doctored profit-and-loss statement where Gates took the real profit-and-loss statement and converted it from a PDF file to a word file, edited it, added $3.5 million. Then turned it back into a PDF. They learned not to use the bookkeeper anymore.

They even concocted a note that the over $300,000 that was overdue on Manafort’s American Express card, that was a big misunderstanding.

They concocted a story that Gates borrowed the card, he was good for it, pay no attention to how the quote delinquency on that American Express card significantly affected Paul Manafort’s credit score.

So they still hand to scam lender D but it worked.

Look at the timeline. That scrambling in late 2015 and early 2016 and it’s not working out.

But starting July, 2016, Gates and Manafort, jackpot.

Manafort wasn’t some rich guy with Russia connections.

He was a broke scammer who needed cash with Russia connections.

This was the guy that Trump put in charge of his campaign.

After Manafort joined the campaign, Russia’s efforts to help Trump hit another gear.

Paul Manafort has a lot of information that he could give to Mueller. Manafort could fill in some gaps.

Trump’s campaign needed help.

Paul Manafort needed cash.

Manafort also had the Russia connections.

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/02...iticus+USA+%29

[hater]

Ppl forgeting Yanukovic was the US darling and they supportd him thru and thru

He fell out of grace when he asked anloan from Rusia and said he would work with him to have good relations. Thqts when the Us execute the coup

[djohn2oo8]

TSA's own arguments always come back to bite him in the ass.

[pgardn]

You have me on record saying a special counsel was a huge waste of tax payer money if Mueller is only indicting a Russian troll farm uncovered years ago and financial crimes that should have been prosecuted when the FBI knew about them in 2013.

Absolutely false.

THE PUBLIC who cares and understands can finally decide for themselves the extent of Russian interefernce. You can be a conservative fool and portray it as a few guys fiddling around on the Internet. You can go the other direction and know Trump was directly involved in colluding with Russians to sway votes in 3-5 key states or....

You can realize the difference between a ty system of government run by ONE man and his leeches for 20+ years. And a country who actually has a system flexible enough to elect an ignorant novice. Chaotic and FREE. And if you can't see the difference, you need to get your ass out of this country and try another place for a while. Travel and get away from the hotels.

"But, but, we also did... "

Yeah we did, and WE KNOW this. Think about it. Then vote in every election. School board to President.

[djohn2oo8]

[dabom]

Boom.

[djohn2oo8]

[clambake]

The special counsel investigation will most likely cost more than the what was laundered and obtained illegally by Manafort/Gates. Seem worth it to you? Expensive political charade you and I are paying for.

you are a ing sell out.

[djohn2oo8]

Boom.

[clambake]

You have me on record saying a special counsel was a huge waste of tax payer money if Mueller is only indicting a Russian troll farm uncovered years ago and financial crimes that should have been prosecuted when the FBI knew about them in 2013.

you suck, comrade

[djohn2oo8]

[clambake]

The special counsel investigation will most likely cost more than the what was laundered and obtained illegally by Manafort/Gates. Seem worth it to you? Expensive political charade you and I are paying for.

look at this ing post. this is the window you look through to see this guys character.

you're a low life piece of .




you used to be entertaining, but in life, you suck hard.

[Spurminator]

So the 4chan Trump Soldier talking point is now "feign concern over wasteful spending." Seems pretty weak.

[djohn2oo8]

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So white guys stealing $10Ms should be ignored because law enforcement costs too much

[djohn2oo8]