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 Trumps campaign chairman.
The undated messages which have been hacked and then recently circulated by a hacktivist collective were sent to an iPhone belonging to Manaforts 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 Ukraines 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.
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Zambero
(8,954 posts)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.
DK504
(3,847 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)mitch96
(13,821 posts)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)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)There has to be a Special prosecutor with subpoena powers appointed to investigate Trump's administration Russian Spy contacts.