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triron

(22,003 posts) Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:14 PM Dec 2018

I don't get it. Why would Manafort try to get Assange released to US??

Seems contrary to his engagements with Russia.

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I don't get it. Why would Manafort try to get Assange released to US?? (Original Post) triron Dec 2018 OP

so he could have an "accidental" death in a federal prison gopiscrap Dec 2018 #1

drumpf can pardon Manafort and Assange, or so they think. democratisphere Dec 2018 #2

It's a garbage NYT article manor321 Dec 2018 #3

Who wrote the article? Michael Schmidt? triron Dec 2018 #6

+1 and thanks for the link to emptywheel emulatorloo Dec 2018 #7

This will help. They all lie, all the time, about everything. spanone Dec 2018 #4

Can't trust a lying criminal SallyHemmings Dec 2018 #5

He was trying to cut in vlyons Dec 2018 #8

My understanding is that Assange was brought up by the Equadorans pecosbob Dec 2018 #9

I think the Chinese funding was a cover/excuse for Manafort to meet with Equador Jarqui Dec 2018 #10

gopiscrap

(23,760 posts)

1. so he could have an "accidental" death in a federal prison

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:16 PM

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democratisphere

(17,235 posts)

2. drumpf can pardon Manafort and Assange, or so they think.

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:18 PM

Dec 2018

manor321

(3,344 posts)

3. It's a garbage NYT article

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:19 PM

Dec 2018

And remember it was before Mueller was appointed.

Also, it was probably brought up by Ecuador.

See emptywheel's article:

https://www.emptywheel.net/2018/12/04/the-number-of-times-assange-tried-to-coerce-release/

triron

(22,003 posts)

6. Who wrote the article? Michael Schmidt?

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:22 PM

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emulatorloo

(44,124 posts)

7. +1 and thanks for the link to emptywheel

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:22 PM

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spanone

(135,831 posts)

4. This will help. They all lie, all the time, about everything.

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:20 PM

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SallyHemmings

(1,821 posts)

5. Can't trust a lying criminal

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:21 PM

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vlyons

(10,252 posts)

8. He was trying to cut in

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:25 PM

Dec 2018

on getting China to invest in Ecuador's infrastructure. How he would skim a few million from such a scam -- probably he hadn't got that far in figuring out. But Ecuador didn't want to hire Manafort to manage such a deal, unless he could get Assange out of their embassy.

This is just a side plot in the Trump soap opera to show that Manafort was an international scam artist.

pecosbob

(7,538 posts)

9. My understanding is that Assange was brought up by the Equadorans

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Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:27 PM

Dec 2018

Manafort's proposal involved Chinese funding for Equador as well as some scheme to acquire PR's bond debt to take over their power utility.

Jarqui

(10,125 posts)

10. I think the Chinese funding was a cover/excuse for Manafort to meet with Equador

Reply to pecosbob (Reply #9)

Tue Dec 4, 2018, 06:58 PM

Dec 2018

on Assange

Assange was a loose end.

Comey was looking into it before Mueller so the heat was already on.

I saw Manafort had 10 passport applications in ten years but only produced 3 passports.

Why did Manafort have to use a bogus email address and fake id on his phone when he visited Equador?

The Guardian story is making more sense now even though it lacks evidence because Trump would probably want some cooperation with Assange if they were going to work a deal to pardon him and get him out of there in exchange for silence on the DNC hacking.

That is the gist of what I suspect ...

EDIT: I just read the emptywheel link for the first time - after I wrote this post

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