Manafort offered to give Russian billionaire ‘private briefings’ on 2016 campaign
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[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manafort-offered-to-give-russian-billionaire-private-briefings-on-2016-campaign/2017/09/20/399bba1a-9d48-11e7-8ea1-ed975285475e_story.html[/url]
[quote]Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.
“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.
The emails are among tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to congressional investigators and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team as they probe whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia as part of Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.[/quote]
Can we fire the book at him from the cannon yet?
Now the question is, did Trump know about or request these
If so, it's over
Except it's not, as much as I wish it was, meeting with an independent civilian of a foreign country doesn't mean collusion according to the law man.
[QUOTE=Hilton;52702164]Except it's not, as much as I wish it was, meeting with an independent civilian of a foreign country doesn't mean collusion according to the law man.[/QUOTE]
Except he wasn't just an independent civilian, he was Trump's campaign manager for six months. Trump fired Corey Lewandowski and put Manafort in charge in June 2016. The email this article is concerned with was written in July 2016.
Every time it seems like it is, it's not
but boy does it all build the fuck up real nice
[QUOTE=Clovernoodle;52702162]Now the question is, did Trump know about or request these
If so, it's over[/QUOTE]
This is pretty much everything up to this point, which is why I won't feel good about the investigation until we get something really airtight that mentions him, even though there's obviously far too much smoke for him to be innocent.
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[QUOTE=K4ZMA;52702179]Every time it seems like it is, it's not
but boy does it all build the fuck up real nice[/QUOTE]
It does. You should check out one of the Trump-Russia timelines.
[url]http://billmoyers.com/story/trump-russia-timeline/[/url]
takes like an hour to read through everything
it's just a witchhunt tho haha
If it just turns out that just Manafort was just doing this on his own, I'd still have no problem with the hammer of the law coming down on his skull.
[QUOTE] “If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.[/QUOTE]
The Trump campaign didn't collude with Russia, they [I]accommodated[/I]. Take that liberals.
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