AP: Manafort had a $10 million annual contract to benefit Putin government

[Gass3268]

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[Hindsight was 2020]

Lock him up

[Middle-aged Europe]

He probably had only a limited role in this.

[ApatheticAustrian]

where does trump even find those guys?

[Dr. Arch]

Pretty sharp claims.

"Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin...

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."

"Trump's campaign manager is *literally* an illegal unregistered foreign agent of the Russian government who was trying to influence US policy to be pro Russian.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have moved from smoke to fire."

[Gass3268]

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=261124.0

[Crumpets]

where does trump even find those guys?

There are lots of websites where you can get people sent to you from Russia with a modest fee. I've even seen some ads for them on this site.

[pbrower2a]

where does trump even find those guys?

There are lots of websites where you can get people sent to you from Russia with a modest fee. I've even seen some ads for them on this site.

But they are usually promoted as romantic interests.

[I Won - Get Over It]

[Simfan34]

Spicer had the gall to say Manafort played "a limited role" in the campaign, by implication casting him off as indefensible. This surely must be tired by now, but just how low is the regard in which these people hold Americans, to think they might ever buy this? That Trump's campaign chairman was a minor figure in the campaign he was chairing? How does one even begin to respond to a claim like that?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Spicer had the gall to say Manafort played "a limited role" in the campaign, by implication casting him off as indefensible. This surely must be tired by now, but just how low is the regard in which these people hold Americans, to think they might ever buy this? That Trump's campaign chairman was a minor figure in the campaign he was chairing? How does one even begin to respond to a claim like that?

They think their own followers are sub-human morons. And they are effectively right.

They think they have enough dedicated support from others with their own (deplorable) reasons, that as long as a they can dangle the right carrots (money for defense contractors, theocracy for the rightwingnuts, xenophobia for the rascists and bigots, etc) they will be defended. And they are mostly right there, too.

We can work to build a party that can boot the Trumpublicans from power, that can stand up to their worst offenses, that can stand up and shout that the emperor has no clothes. (And then publish funny pictures of  the naked emperor and his little hands on the internet.) Until we can impeach Trump and boot his toadies and whisperers and crowd of malevolent clowns out, we can point and laugh, and remember to be outraged. Do not allow the Trumpist assault on reason to succeed, or to become the new normal.