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[DemocratSinceBirth]

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[cali]

1. I seriously hope there's an investigation underway of his skirting FARA requirements.

[TheBlackAdder]

73. So much for Financial Anti-Money Laundering, Know Your Customer & Chinese Firewalls. Bank sanctions!

[Doodley]

2. It now looks likely that Trump is the Manchurian Candidate.

[lastlib]

22. More like the Soviet candidate........

[sarae]

51. I've heard him called the Siberian candidate...

[sweetloukillbot]

74. Donald Trump...

Is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

[chillfactor]

77. you forgot

marker

[SheriffBob]

81. Yes, yes

I never realized that until I got a free chip implant at trump towers.

[Adrahil]

3. That explains....

The sudden campaign shake-up.

This could be the nail in the coffin.

[KewlKat]

15. Yep, they knew it was comin.............so throw him under the bus to protect the orange guy

I'm hoping with the long time relationship between Manie and Drumpf.....we can take them both down, legally.......

[Evergreen Emerald]

28. But Manafort is still with the campaign.

He is joined by a couple of rightwing crazies, but he is still embedded and able to dictate to the D.

[Adrahil]

31. He'll be gone in a couple weeks, I think.

Trump will never admit he was wrong, and if he admits he hired someone who is essentially a Russian stooge, it would be devastating. So naturally, it's OUR duty (and the duty of the press) to make sure EVERYONE knows it.

[SummerSnow]

47. I bet he hired these two new people cause he plans on getting rid of Manafort

[GeorgeGist]

58. Don the Con.

I suspect that like Lewandowski, Manafort will only appear to disappear.

[UCmeNdc]

4. It is no wonder why Trump is trying to distance himself from Manafort

The press is not really reporting this as a reason for Trump's changing campaign managers.

[Fast Walker 52]

9. seriously-- I would think even Donald would be worried about this

[AllyCat]

70. NPR mentioned the issue with Manafort this morning

while cheerfully reporting the changes at Team Orange.

[Old and In the Way]

5. K/R

This issue issue is not going away. Agent Orange is a national security risk.

[KewlKat]

17. Agent Orange.....I really like that!

He's an agent for mother Russia and he is orange...........hope this name sticks!

[SheriffBob]

82. i like it too

very good.

[3catwoman3]

30. Agent Orange is 100% spot on...

...perfect. May I presume we are all free to "plagiarize" it?

That is what I am going to call him from now on.

[Old and In the Way]

43. Sure! Hashtag it on twitter if you are a user.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

35. I agree - Agent Orange it is !

[sarae]

52. Yes! Agent Orange is a perfect name for him.

[DesertRat]

75. Your post made me lol

Agent Orange? Perfect!

[Sancho]

6. Oh boy!!

[duncang]

7. I wonder if they have a extra room

In the Ecuadorian embassy? Maybe him and Asshinge will be roomies?

[Tanuki]

32. Or maybe he'll join Edward Snowden in Russia,

where Snowden "has a job in information technology and is protected by a private security organization."


http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-snowden-asylum-20140807-story.html

[Zorro]

8. POW!

The REPUBLICANS have nominated a candidate for President that's under the influence of the RUSSIANS!

Flog THAT story, news media!

[Jarqui]

10. Well, Donald wants to improve law and order ...

What better place to start than setting an example by throwing your own campaign manager in jail!!



and he replaces him by putting a Breitbart News executive in charge? Does he understand the word "credibility"?

Life is wackier than fiction. Can you imagine what his administration would be like?

He can't stop the bleeding because he can't stop chewing on his foot in his mouth.

I've never seen anything like this.

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. Manafort's been replaced?

In the middle of the night?

That doesn't look too suspicious.

[Jarqui]

16. Yep, demoted and replaced

Donald Trump Attempts To Salvage His Campaign With Leadership Shakeup
A top Breitbart News executive will be his new campaign manager.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-restructures-his-campaign-leadership_us_57b41635e4b0b42c38af46ec
2nd shakeup in two months

You can't make this stuff up.

[brush]

37. Wait. What?

Didn't he already do that with Lewandowski?

Way to hire 'em, Donald. Now we have even more faith in who you'll appoint to your administration and the Supreme Court. .

[lindysalsagal]

60. When they put the ad in the paper for a fRump campaign manager, they only got 1 applicant!

a russian mobster!!!

[avebury]

20. It boggles the mind that Manafort was not flat out kicked to the curb.

Trumps's continuing total lack of judgment needs to be hung around his neck (and the necks of everyone around him).

The way a candidate staff's his/her campaign is a pretty good indication of how he/she would fill positions in an administration. Imagine what a Trump administration would look like.

It might be worth a PAC organization to make arrangements for the movie The Manchurian Candidate to be played at select theaters in select locations. And as the credits begin to roll at the end, flash up a spot on political ad.

[tomp]

90. they've got something on him. he can't just let go. nt

[thecrow]

24. He now has a campaign CEO (Breitbart guy) ...

Manafort is still the campaign executive (?)
AND the blonde bimbo that has inundated the tv channels talking non-stop over everybody else
is now the campaign chairman (shouldn't that be chairwoman? or is she not of the female gender? )

I guess he could be relieved of one or more of his campaign heads and it would all be okay!

[auntpurl]

26. No, she's the campaign manager.

I don't really care what any of their titles are, the only true title is "trump babysitter".

[Laura PourMeADrink]

39. Kelly Ann? bimbo? I think she is nauseatingly a great debater. You know,

one of those people who thinks and speaks quickly and never answers the question - just a bunch of bs. Kind of like Carly.. Hey what happened to her? Anyway, Kelly Ann was on a panel with Don Lemon last night and complained she was being badgered - then she went on to badger. Thank god Van was on too.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. Don't you mean gulag?

[annabanana]

11. lock him up lock him up . . . .n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

38. now that's funny AB

[Ilsa]

12. Lock him up. Investigate Trump. nt

[Thinkingabout]

14. Too many ties to the wrong people and Trump comments showing "respect" for the same ties.

[uponit7771]

18. :-?

[auntpurl]

19. HOLY SHIT.

[NurseJackie]

21. #ShitHitsFan

[DemonGoddess]

23. Wow!

[LaydeeBug]

25. I can't see this image...just a bok with a broken blurb in it

is there another link?

[csziggy]

68. Here is the link to the story

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c01989a47ee5421593ba1b301ec07813/ap-sources-manafort-tied-undisclosed-foreign-lobbying

I'm not sure if it is people posting from smart phones but I hate the postings that have an image of a part of the story and not a cut and paste of the contents. Too often those have no link to the entire story. That is worse than useless!

[LaydeeBug]

71. Thank you so much! :) nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

27. WOW!

I wasn't even aware of the campaign manager change until I saw this thread too!

[jaxind]

29. Surprised...

Surprised that Manafort would even take on the position of campaign chairman...didn't he think people would probe about him??!

[ALBliberal]

33. Surely no security briefing!!!!

[brush]

41. Wasn't it reported yesterday that Trump took another Russian-linked . . .

somebody, I don't recall his name, into the security briefing?

I'm just not getting how the intel people are going along with coughing up info to Trump and these questionable guys.

[tomp]

91. I believe he got one yesterday.

I believe obama should cut him off.

[ALBliberal]

93. Yes I agree but not Obamas style

[thucythucy]

34. And the Congressional investigations will begin in

three, two, one...

Oh, right. IOKIYAR.

[NastyRiffraff]

50. They're too busy (re)investigating the Clinton emails

and second-guessing the FBI.

So what if national security is REALLY at risk; emails! and Benghazi!

[heaven05]

40. he's white and rich

just like the POS he's representing now. Much ado about nothing and nothing WILL EVER come of all these revelations. It's election season drama and when the New Nazi Party of America loses thec election and MSM has wrung every advertising dollar out of this drama, these two, the new fuhrer and this POS will continue to con and swindle. Truly, very evil people that a lot of amerikkkans want to see in the WH. Sad indeed, but not very surprising.

[Nitram]

42. Hope he gets nailed, and Trump suffers collateral damage.

[duncang]

44. Now I'm wondering if donnie was a "mule" even if unwitting.

Laundering the money for any of the payments to the lobbyist here. That would be really yuuuuge!

[Tommy_Carcetti]

45. I predict someone's going to be buying a one-way plane ticket to Russia very soon.

Before the investigation gets too intense.

[R B Garr]

46. How is he going to explain away this Russian spy?!

Oh, yeah. He won't be expected to. Only FBI vetted emails are to be discussed.

[Fla Dem]

48. Unfortunately Tony Podesta's lobbying firm is somehow implicated in this undisclosed money

scheme. That could have some blow back on the Clinton's campaign because John Podesta, Tony's brother, is Chairman of the HRC presidential campaign. I'm sure the "liberal biased" press will find some way to draw HRC into this this.

The founder and chairman of the Podesta Group, Tony Podesta, is the brother of longtime Democratic strategist John Podesta, who now is campaign chairman for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. The head of Mercury, Vin Weber, is an influential Republican, former congressman and former special policy adviser to Mitt Romney. Weber announced earlier this month that he will not support Trump.

After being introduced to the lobbying firms, the European nonprofit paid the Podesta Group $1.13 million between June 2012 and April 2014 to lobby Congress, the White House National Security Council, the State Department and other federal agencies, according to U.S. lobbying records.

The nonprofit also paid $1.07 million over roughly the same period to Mercury to lobby Congress. Among other issues, Mercury opposed congressional efforts to pressure Ukraine to release one of Yanukovych's political rivals from prison.

One former Podesta employee, speaking on condition of anonymity because of a non-disclosure agreement, said Gates described the nonprofit's role in an April, 2012 meeting as supplying a source of money that could not be traced to the Ukrainian politicians who were paying him and Manafort.

http://bigstory.ap.org/c01989a47ee5421593ba1b301ec07813?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

[Ford_Prefect]

57. Read the complete article. It says Podesta knew of the source but declared it was not a problem.

3 of his associates felt otherwise. It's not good for either Manafort, Gates or Podesta since it seems all were aware of the degree of deception involved in how the money was laundered, and were also cognizant of the connection of that money to Yanukovych and his allies.

[Fla Dem]

59. I did read the complete article.

You post....

"It says Podesta knew of the source but declared it was not a problem. 3 of his associates felt otherwise."

This that you put in your response, is enough to raise the specter of some shady dealings. You then go onto say exactly what I stated. Podesta's firm was aware and it could throw shade on his firm, and as the media likes to do implicate John Podesta so they have a HRC story as well.

Another instance of both sides do it, and she's just as corrupt as Trump.

I'm not sure what you think I missed. But if you still think I misunderstood the article, please let me know.

[Ford_Prefect]

65. I am not nor will I be a member of the media. I am not responsible for their predatory behavior.

You appear to suggest a false equivalence that I did not. I said what the story did.

After being introduced to the lobbying firms, the European nonprofit paid the Podesta Group $1.13 million between June 2012 and April 2014 to lobby Congress, the White House National Security Council, the State Department and other federal agencies, according to U.S. lobbying records.

Tony Podesta is a political operative with well documented history of working dark deals for clients when it suited him to do so. I think Podesta likely does what he thinks will work and likely doesn't burden his clients with those decisions.

All three operatives are known for their access and their willingness to play the dark side of the political game. Podesta and Manafort are knowing associates of Gates in the influence pedaling game. According to the AP story both were aware of the route by which the funds were delivered and the purpose of that deception to disguise the source of the funds. It was stated in the AP story that way.

I know from personal experience that the money and power involved leads people to do what ever they think they can get away with. I worked on the John Edwards campaign.

There is no boundary separating the GOP from the Democratic Party in this. It is the in nature of modern political environment that it occurs. That doesn't make it right nor should we accept it being done in our names.

The AP article doesn't say that John Podesta knew of the deal. I don't know that he did or did not. I find it illogical that he would not be aware of it given his relationship to Tom and the firm. I think the real question to ask if you must is what has John been doing for Hillary which may have been influenced by Tom.

I have no interest in seeing Hillary fail or Trump win. I didn't invent nor do I approve of bending the rules to suit political ends. That doesn't mean that others will not do so.

[Dem2]

49. And they've been calling US commie traitor's for YEARS

oops.

[ALBliberal]

55. And they claim we are unpatriotic!

[Person 2713]

53. So the real commie lovers are conservative republicans?? Ha Ha you been found out

[JHB]

83. No, not "commie lovers", but...

...it does seem that they are ok with "getting their marching orders straight from the Kremlim".

[RapSoDee]

56. Sleazy, scuzzy Republican values on parade

Are these really the Corrupt Comrade Gangsters that Republicans want to put in America's White House?

Republican Scuzz-O-rama.

[uppityperson]

66. Welcome to DU

[Peacetrain]

62. The mud they are treading just gets thicker and stickier..

[TexasMommaWithAHat]

63. Could you provide the link

I'd like to link the source to another board!

Thanks!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

64. Here

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c01989a47ee5421593ba1b301ec07813/ap-sources-manafort-tied-undisclosed-foreign-lobbying

[workinclasszero]

67. Trump is a Russian mole for Putin

Isn't this common knowledge by now?

[Blue Owl]

69. Trump's Manafort Destiny

n/t

[Angry Dragon]

72. LOCK HIM UP

[Agnosticsherbet]

76. Link to the originals story.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c01989a47ee5421593ba1b301ec07813/ap-sources-manafort-tied-undisclosed-foreign-lobbying

[VMA131Marine]

78. I am now starting to think that Manafort worked for the Trump campaign for free

to secure the Presidential Pardon his is eventually going to need to stay out of prison.

[SheriffBob]

85. from president putin?

lol

[Tarheel_Dem]

79. I agree with the sentiments expressed upthread...."LOCK HIM UP"! "LOCK HIM UP"! nt

[Bill USA]

80. of course this isn't nearly as important as Hillary's unmarked Classified emails!

[SheriffBob]

84. A nuclear war is not as important as Hillary's emails

according to the repubs.

[Bill USA]

86. Well said!

[SunSeeker]

87. K & R for exposure.

[kentuck]

88. They are criminals.

There is a severe case of projection when they start calling other people "criminals".

[randome]

92. Trump draws the favor of criminals who think they can gain a 'safe harbor' if he is elected.

Because then they can claim any allegations are 'unfounded accusations' and 'politics'.
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[Jnew28]

89. Trump is in an unprecedented downfall...

This pompous windbag can't do anything right....or he's sabotaging his campaign because he never wanted to be president in the first place.

http://stupidpartymathvmyth.com/1/post/2016/08/2016-every-day-christmas-day-trumpeteers-daily-turkey-dinner.html

[Blue_Tires]

94. Sadly, we're all McCarthyites for pointing that out

According to Greenwald, at least