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Donald Trumps former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trumps campaign, the Guardian has been told.
Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 during the period when he was made a key figure in Trumps push for the White House.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I love how they hang them out and let them lie only before releasing info that shows more lies and CONSPIRACY!!!!
vlyons
(10,252 posts)not to know that the CIA surveilled the Embassy where Assange was, and that probably the State Dept worked out an arrangement for the Embassy to inform the US about Assange's visitors?
Pretty stupid, I guess.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)known since it happened, along with ALL the others. Interesting question is who told the Guardian, and why ?
blogslut
(38,000 posts)UCmeNdc
(9,600 posts)Yep, I said it!
Traitors all!
ScratchCat
(1,990 posts)That Manaforte said he didn't talk with Assange, Trump agreed in writing, but they already had info from the CIA saying he did? Now they are both caught in perjury? Is that what just happened?
allgood33
(1,584 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)Coincidence?
triron
(22,003 posts)ffr
(22,669 posts)Might. Probably.
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)By Davis Richardson 11/27/18 11:22am
Ecuadorian intelligence claims WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange met with former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort in London.
In an internal document obtained by The Guardian, the countrys Senain intelligence agency describes Paul Manafort as one of several well-known guests to visit Assange at Londons Ecuadorian embassy, along with unspecified Russians. Sources in Ecuador tell the publication that Manaforts visit to the embassy was not logged ...
https://observer.com/2018/11/ecuadorian-intelligence-paul-manafort-julian-assange-dnc-hack/
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)By Philip Bump
November 27 at 11:14 AM
... Heres how we understand the timelines of Manafort, Assange and the Russians to overlap ...
2013: Manafort and Assange meet in London, according to the Guardian. At the time, Manaforts clients included the president of Ukraine and his political party ...
2015: Manafort and Assange meet in London again, the Guardian reports. Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in that city since 2012, making it easier to determine those with whom hes held meetings ...
Feb. 29, 2016: Manafort makes his first outreach to Trumps campaign ...
March 2016: The Guardian reports that Assange and Manafort meet in London.
The timing of this alleged meeting is interesting. In the middle of the month, Russian hackers allegedly began probing the DNC network for vulnerabilities ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/27/timeline-what-it-would-mean-if-manafort-assange-met/?utm_term=.8cc713ebeeae
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)NOVEMBER 27, 2018 10:52AM ET
By ANDY KROLL
WASHINGTON Its been an extraordinary 24 hours in the world of Paul Manafort.
On Monday evening, Special Counsel Robert Mueller said in an explosive new court filing that Manafort, the disgraced former Trump campaign chairman and Republican lobbyist, had lied to the FBI and the special counsels office despite signing a plea deal in which he agreed to fully, truthfully, completely and forthrightly answer all of the governments questions.
Then, Tuesday morning, the Guardian revealed that Manafort had allegedly visited Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, at least three times over the past five years. One of those visits occurred in March 2016, the same month that Manafort joined the Trump presidential campaign to help Trump secure the Republican nomination. Later that year, WikiLeaks would receive tens of thousands of emails that were stolen from the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party by Russian hackers. WikiLeaks spent the final months of the 2016 campaign selectively releasing those emails in an effort to damage Clintons chances before the election ...
By allegedly violating his plea agreement, Manafort, who is already facing 10 years in prison for tax fraud, could face more time behind bars if Muellers team decides to refile charges ...
... Any evidence gleaned from interviews with Manafort are now tainted by his alleged lies and crimes ...
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/manafort-assange-mueller-760314/