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spanone

(135,851 posts) Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:14 PM Sep 2018

As trump tries to downplay Paul Manafort's involvement, let's not forget:

Paul Manafort

....Manafort did not play a “limited role” in the campaign. He was involved with the campaign for five months, serving as campaign chairman for

three of those months until he resigned. Moreover, his roles in the campaign, particularly Convention Manager, were crucial, and arguably prevented a derailing of

Trump’s nomination through a floor fight at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

http://fortune.com/2017/03/22/paul-manafort-donald-trump-vladimir-putin/

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As trump tries to downplay Paul Manafort's involvement, let's not forget: (Original Post) spanone Sep 2018 OP

One other thing: Do not f*ck with Bob Mueller. He will not blink. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #1

My prediction for Trump's next step gratuitous Sep 2018 #2

You have earned my unending admiration for that post! PJMcK Sep 2018 #3

Manafort? You mean the Coffee Manager? marylandblue Sep 2018 #4

He manipulated Trump into choosing Pence as VP as well RockRaven Sep 2018 #5

Right?!?! DonaldsRump Sep 2018 #6

****Change in the RNC's platform on Ukraine during the convention in July 2016 **** spanone Sep 2018 #7

Trump is a LYING SOB! In other news, WATER is WET! YessirAtsaFact Sep 2018 #8

I know.... spanone Sep 2018 #11

Totally lying DonaldsRump Sep 2018 #9

This is the best witch hunt ever! DesertRat Sep 2018 #10

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,761 posts)

1. One other thing: Do not f*ck with Bob Mueller. He will not blink.

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:16 PM

Sep 2018

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

2. My prediction for Trump's next step

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:17 PM

Sep 2018

Asking Mueller if he gets a finder's fee for Manafort's asset forfeiture.

PJMcK

(22,037 posts)

3. You have earned my unending admiration for that post!

Reply to gratuitous (Reply #2)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:21 PM

Sep 2018

Brilliant, gratuitous. Just brilliant.

In fact, I can actually see Trump taking such a position.

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)

4. Manafort? You mean the Coffee Manager?

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:29 PM

Sep 2018

He just gave orders to the Coffee Boy.

RockRaven

(14,976 posts)

5. He manipulated Trump into choosing Pence as VP as well

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:34 PM

Sep 2018

Trump wanted Christie. Manafort lied to Trump about an airplane malfunction to buy time to engineer a meeting between Trump and Pence. Trump only agreed to the meeting b/c he thought he couldn't go home yet -- he had never met Pence before and didn't want to.

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)

6. Right?!?!

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:40 PM

Sep 2018

Two very key things happened under Manafort's watch:

1) Change in the RNC's platform on Ukraine during the convention in July 2016

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.

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trump-campaign-guts-gops-anti-russia-stance-on-ukraine/2016/07/18/98adb3b0-4cf3-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f001e5f56e4d|

2) The selection of Mike Pence

Both are probably being looked at extremely closely by the Special Counsel.

spanone

(135,851 posts)

7. ****Change in the RNC's platform on Ukraine during the convention in July 2016 ****

Reply to DonaldsRump (Reply #6)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 06:46 PM

Sep 2018

^^^^THIS^^^^

There's video of trump saying Manafort only worked for him for 49 days. LYING SOB

YessirAtsaFact

(2,064 posts)

8. Trump is a LYING SOB! In other news, WATER is WET!

Reply to spanone (Reply #7)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 07:04 PM

Sep 2018

spanone

(135,851 posts)

11. I know....

Reply to YessirAtsaFact (Reply #8)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 07:44 PM

Sep 2018

DonaldsRump

(7,715 posts)

9. Totally lying

Reply to spanone (Reply #7)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 07:05 PM

Sep 2018

these buffoons are such transparent and bald-faced liars.

By contrast, remember that former Attorney General John Mitchell was Nixon's campaign chair during the 1972 presidential election. Mitchell was clearly involved in authorizing the actions of the Watergate burglars and Nixon knew about this almost immediately after the break-in on June 16-17. Mitchell resigned as campaign chair 13 days later, claiming publicly he wanted to spend more time with his wife Martha Mitchell.

What's past is prologue....however, Nixon, Mitchell, and all the President's Men back then were exponentially smarter than these thugs now in the White House.

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)

10. This is the best witch hunt ever!

Reply to spanone (Original post)

Fri Sep 14, 2018, 07:20 PM

Sep 2018

Mueller got Manafort to plead guilty, flip on Trump AND give up 46 MILLION in assets.

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