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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 10:57 AM Feb 2017

Paul Manafort targeted for blackmail shortly before Ukraine ties forced him out of Trump campaign

Source: RawStory




TRAVIS GETTYS
23 FEB 2017 AT 09:05 ET

Paul Manafort was apparently the target of a possible Russian blackmail attempt when he served as Donald Trump’s campaign chairman.

The undated messages — which have been hacked and then recently circulated by a hacktivist collective — were sent to an iPhone belonging to Manafort’s daughter in an attempt to reach her father, reported Politico.

One text message appears to have come from a Ukrainian parliamentarian named Serhiy Leshchenko, who claimed to have “bulletproof” evidence of a financial arrangement between Manafort and Ukraine’s former pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovych.

Leschenko is a former investigative journalist who is known as an anti-corruption crusader. The message also claimed to have strong evidence that Trump met in 2012 with Serhiy Tulub, a close associate of the Ukrainian strongman Yanukovych.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/paul-manafort-targeted-for-blackmail-shortly-before-ukraine-ties-forced-him-out-of-trump-campaign/

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Paul Manafort targeted for blackmail shortly before Ukraine ties forced him out of Trump campaign (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2017 OP
Tip of the iceberg Zambero Feb 2017 #1
The Dossier must be released. DK504 Feb 2017 #2
There are a lot of skeletons in the Manafort closet. George II Feb 2017 #3
Where are the NSA whistle blowers mitch96 Feb 2017 #4
Well that explains why Yates told Trump Flynn could be subject to blackmail. SunSeeker Feb 2017 #5
There has to be a Special prosecutor with subpoena powers appointed to investigate Trump's admin UCmeNdc Feb 2017 #6

Zambero

(8,954 posts)
1. Tip of the iceberg
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 11:09 AM
Feb 2017

This is what happens when adversarial foreign operatives commandeer and compromise the election process of a functional democracy. And once safeguards are disabled via relentless propaganda, dark money, and complicity on the part of U.S. intelligence officials, a "path to victory" for the likes of 45 emerges.

mitch96

(13,821 posts)
4. Where are the NSA whistle blowers
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 12:15 PM
Feb 2017

when you need them the most. You KNOW they have all the dirt on him including his tax returns...
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SunSeeker

(51,372 posts)
5. Well that explains why Yates told Trump Flynn could be subject to blackmail.
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 01:04 PM
Feb 2017

The FBI knew Manafort had that blackmail attempt. The FBI knew all this shit, yet not a word about it from Comey before the election. No, he had to send out an ominous letter about Hillary emails he HAD to know were likely duplicates of what they already reviewed. Fucking assholes at FBI gave us Shitler.

UCmeNdc

(9,589 posts)
6. There has to be a Special prosecutor with subpoena powers appointed to investigate Trump's admin
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 05:39 AM
Feb 2017

There has to be a Special prosecutor with subpoena powers appointed to investigate Trump's administration Russian Spy contacts.

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