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Note who's tweeting this.... (Original Post) kpete Aug 2016 OP
guess we know edhopper Aug 2016 #1
but on CNN today.....get this.. chillfactor Aug 2016 #2
so he is a wanker edhopper Aug 2016 #3
We'll have to see how this develops gratuitous Aug 2016 #4
ICYMI: How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump riversedge Aug 2016 #5

chillfactor

(7,574 posts)
2. but on CNN today.....get this..
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 08:46 AM
Aug 2016

Corey defended manafort saying manafort denies taking any money and Corey believed him!

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
4. We'll have to see how this develops
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 08:52 AM
Aug 2016

Lewandowski may be content to sit back and smile as Manafort goes down in flames, but if the story doesn't grow legs or pique the proper interest in the right quarters, Lewandowski may be back out to try to drum up interest in Manafort's corruption. My guess is that it would be in an oblique way, "Well, {some unspecified, unsourced rumor} is certainly not good for the Clinton campaign, but perhaps it will blow over like the Paul Manafort-Ukraine corruption allegations."

riversedge

(70,187 posts)
5. ICYMI: How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 09:19 AM
Aug 2016


How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html?action=click&contentCollection=Politics&module=RelatedCoverage&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

By STEVEN LEE MYERS and ANDREW E. KRAMER

JULY 31, 2016


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Paul Manafort, Donald J. Trump’s campaign chairman, last month in Cleveland before the Republican National Convention. Credit Sam Hodgson for The New York Times

WASHINGTON — Few political consultants have had a client fail quite as spectacularly as Paul Manafort’s did in Ukraine in the winter of 2014.

President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who owed his election to, as an American diplomat put it, an “extreme makeover” Mr. Manafort oversaw, bolted the country in the face of violent street protests. He found sanctuary in Russia and never returned, as his patron, President Vladimir V. Putin, proceeded to dismember Ukraine, annexing Crimea and fomenting a war in two other provinces that continues.

Mr. Manafort was undaunted.

Within months of his client’s political demise, he went to work seeking to bring his disgraced party back to power, much as he had Mr. Yanukovych himself nearly a decade earlier. Mr. Manafort has already had some success, with former Yanukovych loyalists — and some Communists — forming a new bloc opposing Ukraine’s struggling pro-Western government.

And now Mr. Manafort has taken on a much larger campaign, seeking to turn Donald J. Trump into a winning presidential candidate..........................
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