Manafort Notes From Russian Meet Contain Cryptic Reference to 'Donations' - Polidicks

[Media]https://twitter.com/benjaminwittes/status/903317740445945862[/media] [quote] WASHINGTON — Paul Manafort's notes from a controversial Trump Tower meeting with Russians during the 2016 presidential campaign included the word "donations," near a reference to the Republican National Committee, two sources briefed on the evidence told NBC News. The references, which have not been previously disclosed, elevated the significance of the June 2016 meeting for congressional investigators, who are focused on determining whether it included any discussion of donations from Russian sources to either the Trump campaign or the Republican Party. It is illegal for foreigners to donate to American elections. The meeting happened just as Trump had secured the Republican nomination for president, and he was considered a longshot to win. Manafort was the campaign chairman at the time. [/Quote] [URL="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/manafort-notes-russian-meet-contain-cryptic-reference-donations-n797816"]NBC News[/URL] Boom. GOP is fucking complicit. [editline]31st August 2017[/editline] Worth noting: chief of staff of RNC resigned today, just as 6 others resigned.

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Well, shit, that explains a lot of why the GOP was bending over backwards so much to protect Trump. [I]Christ.[/I]

[URL="https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1577142"]https://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1577142[/URL] [editline]31st August 2017[/editline] Ehh Lock my thread, this seems to be better. Edit2: Russian Bot and or Trolls are now going into overdrive and now banning people on twitter.

The RNC chief of staff just resigned as well. [url]http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/31/rnc-chief-of-staff-resigns-amid-rash-of-departures-242212[/url]

Well I don't see how this is relevant to the counterintelligence probe /chonch

But there's nothing wrong with a little corruption they said.... Arrest the entire lot and throw them behind bars for the rest of their lives.

I didn't think until recently that huge parts of the GOP were involved in this.

It explains the GOP behavior for the last 10 years. [editline]31st August 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=Vodkavia;52634108]There's something poetic about trump and his moronic co conspirators and supporters through so much effort and public scrutiny taking over the most powerful country in the world and losing it all due to their puzzling incompetence. Have to thank everyone who supported and voted for trump for helping him take his own movement down and the GoP as well. When this is all over America might just have a chance at all progressive leap forward.[/QUOTE] Dare you say, Trump made America great again? :P

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52634108]There's something poetic about trump and his moronic co conspirators and supporters through so much effort and public scrutiny taking over the most powerful country in the world and losing it all due to their puzzling incompetence. Have to thank everyone who supported and voted for trump for helping him take his own movement down and the GoP as well. When this is all over America might just have a chance at all progressive leap forward.[/QUOTE] Hopefully they bring in measures to immediately roll back the moronic decisions the idiot in chief already took, and call for a snap election to boot.

Thanks to whichever mod moved our posts.

[QUOTE=Zonesylvania;52634121]Hopefully they bring in measures to immediately roll back the moronic decisions the idiot in chief already took, and call for a snap election to boot.[/QUOTE] Here's how Bernie can still win! [editline]31st August 2017[/editline] From Reddit: [Quote] [WaPo Source]([url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html[/url]) > “There’s . . . there’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, drawing some laughter. “Swear to God,” McCarthy added. > > “This is an off the record,” Ryan said. > > Some lawmakers laughed at that. > > “No leaks, all right?,” Ryan said, adding: “This is how we know we’re a real family here.” > > “That’s how you know that we’re tight,” Scalise said. > > “What’s said in the family stays in the family,” Ryan added. > >[-Transcript excerpt]([url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/national/read-the-transcript-of-the-conversation-among-gop-leaders-obtained-by-the-post/2209/?tid=a_inl[/url]) [/Quote]

Let's take a moment, gents. The two words 'donations' and 'RNC' are said to be 'in close proximity', but no additional context is provided. Until more evidence is presented, and considering that the news agency reporting this is NBC, I'm not convinced this isn't just sensationalism. I still remember the 'we got Trump's tax records!' bullshit.

[QUOTE=archangel125;52634141]Let's take a moment, gents. The two words 'donations' and 'RNC' are said to be 'in close proximity', but no additional context is provided. Until more evidence is presented, and considering that the news agency reporting this is NBC, I'm not convinced this isn't just sensationalism. I still remember the 'we got Trump's tax records!' bullshit.[/QUOTE] Though I wonder why the source didn't go into more detail, this by itself [I]is[/I] pretty concerning. Not indicative of anything damning, of course, but certainly worth attention if it is at all true. I'm anxious to see what Mueller and his team make of Manafort's full notes.

[QUOTE=archangel125;52634141]Let's take a moment, gents. The two words 'donations' and 'RNC' are said to be 'in close proximity', but no additional context is provided. Until more evidence is presented, and considering that the news agency reporting this is NBC, I'm not convinced this isn't just sensationalism. I still remember the 'we got Trump's tax records!' bullshit.[/QUOTE] It was a Wittes' boom, and he's very often not sensationalist.

There's no thread about the resignations people are talking about, but what's the context on those and what's the chance they're related? This sounds pretty damning if true, but there's not really much to go on and I don't know if the resignations could just be coincidental.

[QUOTE=Vodkavia;52634180]Yeah, I'm [I]suuuuuuuure [/I]there's a hope those 7 people who just resigned did so for no reason :wink:[/QUOTE] Until we know for sure how deep this rabbit hole goes, I'm not jumping to conclusions. Other evidence so far has pointed very clearly at a conclusion, but this is still too vague. [editline]31st August 2017[/editline] The Trumpster fire in the oval office and the increasingly ridiculous scrambling of the GOP to clean up after him are still, collectively, the best show in town.

I'm fully convinced that our next president will be either Orrin Hatch or Mattis. The vast majority of the GOP has, accidentally or not, become complicit in an enormous money laundering scheme of illegal Russian donations. Either Trump figures out a way to remove power from the courts and snuff out these investigations, or the GOP collapses as a political party. Either way, no matter how this all turns out, this will be the single biggest political scandal in the history of the country. This is already on a scale far, far larger than Watergate.

I said it before, I'll say it again: this is going to be in our future Facepunchlings' history books.

[QUOTE=archangel125;52634189]Until we know for sure how deep this rabbit hole goes, I'm not jumping to conclusions. Other evidence so far has pointed very clearly at a conclusion, but this is still too vague. [editline]31st August 2017[/editline] The Trumpster fire in the oval office and the increasingly ridiculous scrambling of the GOP to clean up after him are still, collectively, the best show in town.[/QUOTE] In my view, the fact that Manafort took any notes at all is damning on its own. If the meeting was really a waste of time and everybody involved was totally uninterested, why is Manafort sitting on his phones typing out notes that include references to "donations" and the RNC?

I just love the President Mad Dog Mattis shipping that's going on here. Gives me a proper old fashioned military boner, but I feel like it comes with instant disappointment knowing that's a hell of a pipe dream.

[QUOTE=Jon27;52634569]I just love the President Mad Dog Mattis shipping that's going on here. Gives me a proper old fashioned military boner, but I feel like it comes with instant disappointment knowing that's a hell of a pipe dream.[/QUOTE] Regardless of where Mattis might fail, at least in him you'll have someone who knows what to say and when. Of course, comparing him to Trump isn't exactly fair but you get my point.

GOP is insanely corrupt, to the shock of nobody.

[QUOTE=Jim Morrison;52634727]GOP is insanely corrupt, to the shock of nobody.[/QUOTE] What? The [I]Grand Old Party[/I], corrupt? What could [I]possibly[/I] indicate they're corrupt? :hammered: