Trump Campaign Chief’s Firm Got $17 Million From Pro-Russia Party

[Madmick]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/...irm-got-17-million-from-pro-russia-party.html

Paul Manafort, who was forced out as President Trump’s campaign chairman last summer after five months of infighting and criticism about his business dealings with pro-Russian interests, disclosed Tuesday that his consulting firm had received more than $17 million over two years from a Ukrainian political party with links to the Kremlin.

The filing serves as a retroactive admission that Mr. Manafort performed work in the United States on behalf of a foreign power — Ukraine’s Party of Regions — without disclosing it at the time, as required by law. The Party of Regions is the political base of former President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who fled to Russia during a popular uprising in 2014.

The disclosure hints at the vast fortunes available to top American political consultants plying their trade in other countries.

Mr. Manafort’s filing indicates that he was retained by the Party of Regions to help elect national and regional candidates in Ukraine and to liaise with American diplomats in Kiev, the capital, who were monitoring elections there...

The filing also contains details about various contractors, both from the United States and from Ukraine, whom Mr. Manafort employed for the Party of Regions. Mr. Manafort paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to a firm co-owned by a Republican pollster, Tony Fabrizio, who would later work on Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign. Over a two-year period, the firm billed the Party of Regions for more than $2 million in travel and living expenses.

The filings do not cover the entire period Mr. Manafort worked in Ukraine. Last summer, The New York Times reported that handwritten ledgers kept by the Party of Regions showed $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments designated for Mr. Manafort’s firm from 2007 to 2012...

Anticorruption officials in Ukraine asserted at the time that the payments were part of an illegal off-the-books system whose recipients also included election officials. Mr. Manafort, who resigned his campaign post shortly after the article appeared, has denied receiving any cash, and state prosecutors in Ukraine have not accused him of wrongdoing.

Mr. Manafort’s work in Ukraine coincided with large real estate investments he made in the United States, some of which are being scrutinized by federal investigators. He also gave millions of dollars to his two daughters, one of whom, Andrea Manafort, apparently had qualms about how her father had earned the money, according to text messages posted last year on a website used by Ukrainian hackers.

“Don’t fool yourself,” Ms. Manafort wrote to her sister in 2015, referring to protesters’ deaths in anti-Yanukovych uprisings. “That money we have is blood money.”

These advisers are the heart and soul of the Russian investigation. Flynn was the worst, but Manafort, Page, Stone, Sessions, and even Kushner have all been caught up in this web.

Contrary to those calling it a "witch hunt", it obviously isn't, but #Trumpets insist on making it about Trump, and Trump alone, when he himself wasn't even part of the investigation until he hounded (and then fired) James Comey for not letting Flynn and the Russian investigation go; an act that he lied about repeatedly, and was caught in making by his own admission, not to mention implied admissions by his son Eric Trump, and the fact that his highest-ranking lieutenants like Sessions stonewalled the Senate in a hearings they themselves requested: repeatedly refusing to answer questions while acknowledging that the questions didn't probe classified material.

Here's the thing if you want to pretend that you're impartial or centrist. If you care about what Comey revealed about Lynch, that she instructed him to call the inquiry into Clinton's malfeasance a "matter", instead of an "investigation", then you should be similarly outraged and pitchfork-wielding with regard to Trump insisting that Comey let Flynn go Scot-free, uninvestigated, while also demanding Comey's loyalty like some mafia boss. Same damn thing.

But most in here aren't actually centrist or willing to acknowledge misdeeds on both sides of the aisle. Very, very few of us can actually lay claim to that integrity. I'm not a life coach; it's a mirror to each man.

 

[TheComebackKid]

Its over Madmick, let it go.

 

[Madmick]

This is getting sad Madmick. Let it go.

Stay on topic. This is an ad hominem derail. If you have nothing to offer, then don't post ITT.

 

[HamPhan]

Ok...so? What's the problem?

 

[Fanu]

sad to see that China isnt on Trumps mind any more :\

 

[hillelslovak87]

If it's true, add it to the mounting pile.

If it's false, add it to the mounting pile.

 

[ShoelessRye]

Manafort was fired as Campaign chair, but the brought back by Pence as part of the Transition Team. I wonder why?

Also Manafort was Campaign Chair when Pence was chosen as running mate and as the story goes he tricked Trump into meeting with Pence after Trump had decided on Christie by lying and telling him that his plane was delayed overnight in Indiana or something like that when Trump who had a rally in IN wanted to fly back to NY that night instead of meeting with Pence.

 

[Madmick]

If it's true, add it to the mounting pile.

If it's false, add it to the mounting pile.

LOL, not bad.

 

[Prex32]

i'll wait till cnn confirms it...

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

No meetings
Apart from those meetings that were held
No contact
Apart from the contacts
Everything is normal, all Presidential staff and advisors meet with Russian whoevers for whatever wherever

Nothing to see here
MRGA

 

[catchwrestle1]

and state prosecutors in Ukraine have not accused him of wrongdoing.

that Mr. Manafort performed work in the United States on behalf of a foreign power — Ukraine’s Party of Regions

So when they can't find anything involving Russia, they find something involving the Ukraine and say, "but that's so close, you know its got to be Russia!"

TS is being disingenuous, change the title of the thread to 'got 17 million from Ukrainian Political Party.'

'But wait, everyone's caught up with Russia! Except this time, because I'm talking about Ukraine.' Lol.

 

[Madmick]

So when they can't find anything involving Russia, they find something involving the Ukraine and say, "but that's so close, you know its got to be Russia!"

TS is being disingenuous, change the title of the thread to 'got 17 million from Ukrainian Political Party.'

'But wait, everyone's caught up with Russia! Except this time, because I'm talking about Ukraine.' Lol.

The thread title says "Pro-Russia", bud. It's the headline from the NYT.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

Everything is normal, all Presidential staff and advisors meet with Russian whoevers for whatever wherever
MRGA

And just Russians, but seemingly ONLY Russians. While this was going on and Trumpets defend it by saying "incoming presidents meet with foreign powers!", what other foreign powers did they meet with? None as far as I've seen.

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

So when they can't find anything involving Russia, they find something involving the Ukraine and say, "but that's so close, you know its got to be Russia!"

TS is being disingenuous, change the title of the thread to 'got 17 million from Ukrainian Political Party.'

'But wait, everyone's caught up with Russia! Except this time, because I'm talking about Ukraine.' Lol.

The thread title says "Pro-Russia", bud. It's the headline from the NYT.

Ukraine wants to be Russia. Trump told me so himself.

 

[Madmick]

Ukraine wants to be Russia. Trump told me so himself.

Rly? Is that like a Tweet or something? I missed it.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

And just Russians, but seemingly ONLY Russians. While this was going on and Trumpets defend it by saying "incoming presidents meet with foreign powers!", what other foreign powers did they meet with? None as far as I've seen.

Well like any excuse, it has the ring of truth. It could be so. It seems logical that this would be the case, and yet... They seem to have been very preferential and even deferential to the Russians. It all appears very disturbing how deeply the Russians got into the heads of our future leaders.

I wish Trump could find an end to his praise of dictators...

 

[Big Nasty Edison]

Rly? Is that like a Tweet or something? I missed it.

 

[OverCoronavirus Pressure]

He's certainly got a... unique... view.
One might say, "as detached as a born millionaire who's never done a hard days work in his life"

 

[Pale Man In Black]

So now it's Ukraine? Oh, sorry a "pro-Russian" Ukraine political Party.

And this happened what, ten years ago?

Seems like a stretch.
Why not just act like a man and accept the L. The whole Russian Connection deal is getting more and more ridiculous with each dwindling straw.
At this point, this is the never Trump's "Obama is a secret muslim from Kenya" routine.

 

[KantoTerror]

And just Russians, but seemingly ONLY Russians. While this was going on and Trumpets defend it by saying "incoming presidents meet with foreign powers!", what other foreign powers did they meet with? None as far as I've seen.

Nothing to defend...Trump's tiny hands are too far from the cookie jar....