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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums*****AP BIG STORY***** Former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort Had Plan To Aid Putin Government
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. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.
"We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success," Manafort wrote in the 2005 memo to Deripaska. The effort, Manafort wrote, "will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government."
Manafort's plans were laid out in documents obtained by the AP that included strategy memoranda and records showing international wire transfers for millions of dollars. How much work Manafort performed under the contract was unclear.
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http://bigstory.ap.org/122ae0b5848345faa88108a03de40c5a
Vinca
(50,237 posts)They don't like it when plans are exposed and act quickly to eliminate witnesses. If he was smart (wanted to continue living and breathing), he'd turn himself in and give up the goods on Trump.
yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)He at least will stay alive that way even if in jail for the rest of his life. The alternative is not good.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)They will probably put him and his family in witness protection , give them new jobs, and names.
Remember this:
NSFW
Maybe the Feds will make him a travel agent.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)Last edited Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:08 AM - Edit history (2)
Hmmm, if it doesn't work google Tom Hagen Frank Pentangelli youtube.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,957 posts)VWolf
(3,944 posts)In exchange, Tom promises to take care of Frank's family.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,957 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)Does he rat out the Trump crime family to save himself. He was about to before they brought in his brother from the "old country".
Does Manafort have a brother?
VWolf
(3,944 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)Will Trump's consigliere ask Manafort to take a nice warm bath and slit his wrists in exchange for Trump taking care of his family.
Manafort does look like he could be an extra in Goodfellas or Casino.
calimary
(81,110 posts)None of this is beyond the realm of possibility. Not with this bunch.
SunSeeker
(51,512 posts)Manafort may be sharing an apartment with Snowden soon.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,708 posts)He was Trump's campaign manager, for chrissakes.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,311 posts)wishstar
(5,268 posts)Manafort has an apartment in Trump Tower and was seen continually there after his official role in campaign "ended" after 5 months where he was campaign manager and throughout the transition, not a casual acquaintance.
This continual lying and coverup will be their undoing
bdamomma
(63,799 posts)all the time they keep on lying.
SunSeeker
(51,512 posts)Their pathetic, desperate attempts to distance themselves shows how they know how bad this is. They're not even trying to defend Manafort.
angrychair
(8,678 posts)But his friend, they have orbited in the same circles, Russian and American, for decades...Rodger Stone is trump's best friend and Stone and Manfort have been in a business for years...consulting dictators and killers.
There should not have a single political operative or junkie that didn't see the shit flying toward the fan on this one.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Never stop having childhood dreams.[/center][/font][hr]
Enoki33
(1,587 posts)at least one very influential individual in the administration representing him and what he was paid for. This is more than a 'smell of treason in the air.'
mcar
(42,278 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)mcar
(42,278 posts)PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)a couple of weeks back.
He desperately needed to have his name and face out in the public eye for his own self preservation.
mcar
(42,278 posts)He was so smug and smarmy on those shows.
but if he was anything but that, it might have been a tip off of his intentions.
calimary
(81,110 posts)Hmmm... just occurred to me: nightingale? Or canary in a coal mine?
George II
(67,782 posts)wishstar
(5,268 posts)GW Bush looks like a highly competent genius by comparison, since at least he knew to not get caught blatantly lying and knew how to fudge with a half-way credible backstory giving him cover. This Trump WH is practically begging to be taken down .
PRETZEL
(3,245 posts)Nitram
(22,765 posts)Trump is surrounded by people like him. Over-achieving con men.
maryellen99
(3,785 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Manafort might wind up in a Ukraine prison first.
Suicided by Putin is another possibility.
salin
(48,955 posts)to Trump. Leaked. "We got stuff on you, too." Comey said there was evidence that GOP was hacked too, but not released. A warning ala All Your Base Belongs To Us. Just pondering a different angle.
Gothmog
(144,919 posts)Renew Deal
(81,846 posts)I read the USA Today version. http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/22/paul-manaforts-plan-greatly-benefit-putin-government/99483224/
Cha
(296,848 posts)old guy
(3,283 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)I'd imagine those conversations are being recorded.
I hope so.