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By MATT SHUHAM Published OCTOBER 30, 2017 11:25 AM
Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski blamed the FBI on Monday for not warning the Trump campaign about one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort. A 12-count indictment against Manafort was unsealed Monday.
If the public reports are true, and there was a time where Paul Manafort was under a FISA warrant before coming to the Trump campaign, why is it the FBI never reached out to me as the campaign manager, never reached out to Donald Trump, and said: Look, you might want to pause for a second and take a look before you bring this guy on board as a volunteer to hunt delegates to you, Lewandowski told Fox Business Networks Charles Payne.
CNN first reported in September that investigators wiretapped Manafort before and after the campaign, citing unnamed sources.
Another former Trump campaign official, Rick Gates, was also indicted on Friday, according to unsealed records released Monday. The felony charges against Gates and Manafort include money laundering and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
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Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)unblock
(52,317 posts)librechik
(30,676 posts)Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)LakeVermilion
(1,044 posts)Lewandowski is in it too. This is what its like when the Feds set up a sting. Why does Trump need a warning when he was probably suspected of money laundering long before he was a candidate?
Jail Trumps! Jail Trumps! Toss the key...
tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)a woman?
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Shorter Lewandowski (who should be sure his lawyer's retainer is fully paid): "We didn't vet our hires very well, but that's the FBI's fault!"
And if the FBI had warned the Trump campaign about Manafort? Trump would have hared off to the press to bitch about how the feds were trying to meddle in his campaign, and hired Manafort anyway. Because that would show those FBI busybodies, and his supporters would love how he made someone grrrr mad again.
Renew Deal
(81,871 posts)They didn't care about that, so why care about Manafort?
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)Clarity2
(1,009 posts)look how it ended up for Sally Yates. And ditto, he knew Manafort - in fact Manafort lived in Trump Tower.
AJT
(5,240 posts)asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)padah513
(2,506 posts)Why wasn't he vetted by them? Same with Flynn? Probably the same with you.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)integrity....thus, NO, NADA, reach out to the WH - who could very well be involved...that's not how it works....dipshit!!!
haele
(12,676 posts)The Trump camp has shown themselves to be so arrogantly stupid as to not understand that maybe Russian Mobsters and those who deal with them or act as representatives for them may already on the FBI's radar, are certainly on the NSA's radar, and may have FISA warrants out against them.
No matter how many New Yawk City FBI agents may be tacitly colluding with mobsters because they're authoritarians who feel they're unappreciated since Gouliani left for greener pastures, this level of activity can't just be "fixed" or swept under the rug.
Too may institutions are being affected. Drumpf and his merry band of criminally stupid "businessmen" aren't just keeping things in their comfortably corrupt neighborhoods anymore.
When one is "out front" on the national stage, the whole power structure shifts.
Haele
Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)that Flynn was at risk of being compromised by Russia?
Vinca
(50,303 posts)Barack Obama spoke to him about Flynn before the inauguration. But I bet they'd pay close attention to warnings about a campaign worker.
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)onenote
(42,759 posts)Does Corey demonstrate that he's a moron every time he opens his mouth or just 9 out of 10 times?