Paul Manafort leaves Republican convention role after controversy

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: UK Independent

11 hours ago


Paul Manafort has left his unpaid role advising party officials at the Republican convention.

The veteran political consultant, 75, had recently returned to offer his expertise to the convention, according toThe New York Times, and was in Milwaukee, Wisconsin last week for planning meetings. A Washington Post story also reported on Friday that he was involved in work connected to foreign officials and businesses.

His time in the Republican convention role was short-lived. “As a longtime, staunch supporter of President Trump and given my nearly 50 years experience in managing presidential conventions, I was offering my advice and suggestions to the Trump campaign on the upcoming convention in a volunteer capacity,” Manafort told The New York Times in a statement provided by the Trump campaign.

“However, it is clear that the media wants to use me as a distraction to try and harm President Trump and his campaign by recycling old news,” he added. “And I won’t let the media do that. So, I will stick to the sidelines and support President Trump every other way I can.”

Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/paul-manafort-republican-convention-quits-b2543544.html

[Mawspam2]

1. IOW: Trump ain't gonna win so he can't pardon me AGAIN!

[callous taoboy]

2. He reminds me of

[Irish_Dem]

3. A criminal Russian asset who helped rig a US presidential election.

Who had to be pardoned by a corrupt president.

Now he is whining about the media talking about his crimes.

[dalton99a]

10. +1. Manafort should be in prison

[Botany]

20. Yes it was the media who made him take 100s of millions of dollars from Putin/Yanukovych to rat fuck

… the People of Ukraine and give the Russian agent Kilmiyck the data analytics to steal
the 2016 Presidential election. The man should die in the super max in Colorado along
with Von Shitinpants. Manafort is a rat bastard who along with Mike Flynn gave the Crimea
to Russia in 2014.

Wake up people Russia has been conducting a war on America for years and Manafort is
the tip of Vlad’s spear.

[Irish_Dem]

21. I thought the same thing. He belongs in a supermax prison.

In isolation 24/7.

And for god's sake not running a presidential campaign.

I have been saying for quite some time that Russian and China are waging a serious war against us.
And winning it.

Manafort is just one of the cogs in the wheel for Putin.
But Manafort did get Trump installed into the WH.
So a critical piece of the Putin machinery.

[Botany]

22. Covid and vaccine misinformation that so many

people repeat is all from Russia, along with
the Hunter Biden burisma bribes is from
Russia too, and China flat out owns Trump.
In 2017 they dumped 30 million (I think that is
the figure) which was washed through his D.C.
Hotel of which 5 to 10 million wound up in a Chinese bank in Donny's name.

BTW if you can't smell Russia all over the Palestinian vs Isreal protests in America then
I pity you.

The war on America being a functional democracy is very real. They have members of Congress repeating Russian disinformation
on the floor of the Senate

[Irish_Dem]

23. So much of the GOP nonsense is straight from Putin.

The immigrant issue.
Attacking women's rights.
All the propaganda about Biden and his son.
Ukraine propaganda.

Yes the global autocrats flat out own Trump.
They have given him more than 30 million.
Yes where does he have it all stashed?
Somewhere he considers safe.

I said right after the Hamas attack that Putin had engineered the entire thing.
And he was setting up Biden in hopes of throwing the election.
And asked people not to fall for it, not take the bait.
Fell on deaf ears.

Of course the protests are funded and organized by Putin and China.

Putin's fingerprints are all over it.

Putin owns half of our Congress, some of the Supreme Court and most of the media.

Yes it is all real, and quite serious.

[bdamomma]

25. Irish_Dem

you are so correct. I want that POS to be found guilty in his criminal case, the only one.

[Irish_Dem]

26. This trial has lifted the curtain.

Yes here we know he is a sleazy sociopath.
But the rest of the US gets to see it up close and personal.

And even we learned slimy details we didn't know about.

If Trump is not found guilty, it is a travesty of justice.
But at the very least the world learned what kind of person he is.

[Walleye]

4. He's taking orders directly from Putin, don't trust anybody who offers to work without a salary

[we can do it]

5. Fuck this guy

[mopinko]

6. he was hoping to stay under the radar long enough to affect the platform. again.

not sure what putler cd want that the gqp hasnt already given them, but here we r.

[Marthe48]

13. he only "left" the role

He didn't really leave the role. Wink. Wink.

[mopinko]

14. yup.

he had to go after rachel called him out.

[2naSalit]

7. So he moves to...

The "unofficial" column and carries on without all the public view stuff.

[Emile]

11. My thoughts too.

[FakeNoose]

12. He'll try, but some of the reporters are on to him

Don't forget that Manafort's former partner Rick Gates went to prison on a plea deal, but Manafort himself got pardoned by Chump. Who would want to work with him now? I can't see how the Repukes would even want Manafort on the campaign. The guy is bad news.

[Traurigkeit]

17. normal way of work

[BaronChocula]

8. "...So, I will stick to the sidelines and support President Trump every other way I can."

I'm sure "every other way" includes things like money laundering and fronts for Fentanyl trafficking. Stuff like that.

[Traurigkeit]

16. lines of coke

[mercuryblues]

9. IOW

Not enough campaign workers knew enough Russian to communicate with him and his true allies.

[Traurigkeit]

15. "The media wants to use me" - such a crap line as if he did not know prior to "offering" his "Services"

[oasis]

18. Manafort thinks he's slick, but

he ain't sliding out of media radar.

[truthisfreedom]

19. He blinked too soon...

Keep an eye on him. He’s dirty.

[GenThePerservering]

24. "He blinked too soon..."

Yep - he caved.