YES the Trump campaign was in bed with the Russians....

[FalloutShelter]

This just in from the No Shit Sherlock Desk!

Paul Manafort admits sharing info with the Russians during 2016 Trump campaign

In an interview with Business Insider, former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort admitted he was in contact with the Russians and sharing information during the former president's 2016 presidential run.

*snip*

In the interview, Manafort excused his actions stating he wasn't looking for help getting Trump elected and did it purely to make money, with Business Insider reporting, "Manafort told Insider that he directed his deputy, Rick Gates, to feed Kilimnik polling data via email to 'keep Konstantin informed.' The goal was to use his access to Trump to drum up business for himself.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-manafort-russians/

Say it isn't so... Manafort did it for the money.

[Botany]

1. "Manafort told Insider that he directed his deputy, Rick Gates, to feed Kilimnik polling data..."

It wasn't polling data but data analytics or what could be turned into data analytics that the Russians
could use to rat fuck the 2016 elections. Every time Trump said "fake news" as per the Trump Campaign
and Russia he was lying and not a God Damn thing is gonna happen.

[FalloutShelter]

3. I need to eliminate the word unbelievable from my vocabulary.

They NEVER stop ratfucking.

[Botany]

8. The screw job of the by Russia of our elections in 2016 was well known. Russ feingold was @ 90% ..

... of winning.

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/2017/01/23/russians-suspected-hacking-local-dems/96965824/

And this admission by Manafort of treason (Russia has been @ war with America for years) will get zero press.

[certainot]

29. trump guy sam nunberg "listened to 1000s of hours of talk radio" for trump in 2014 and what investig

investigators and journos are missing is talk radio.

russian connected davis/manafort were managing the McCain campaign in 2008 and limbaugh ould not support mccain, a disaster, until minutes after mccain chose palin - who had been wooed by russian oil and gas oligarchs. it's fucking idiotic for media not to ask manager/davis about that and possibly using limbaugh support to force palin on mccain. did limbaugh get money/payola for that?

all the times he was on MSNBC nunberg was never asked about the talk radio project. nunberg says he passed his analysis to trump but did that analysis also go to russian trolls? what blowhards in what states was nunberg listening to? the same states the operatives spent time in?

roger stone was working with trump and nunberg at the same time and boasted how he used talk radio in florida in 2000 to stop the recount.

manafort stone trump all owe their GOP/fascist political 'success' to rw radio, trump's neighbor, golf partner, and rw radio pt man, limbaugh, and the russians use of it.

mueller totally missed it, although there were parts of the report that related

[BadgerMom]

31. Instead of Feingold we all got RoJo who spent July 4th in Moscow.

Not suspicious at all, right? There’s so much to set one’s hair on fire in this article that it’s hard to mention just one thing. But, here goes. If Russia can reach down to Senate races, why wouldn’t they do so even in midterms?

[triron]

32. HRC would have cleaned up as well.

She was winning even Georgia and Arizona plus probably north Carolina and Florida. And the 3 big ones Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

[Botany]

37. Exit polls had in 2016 had HRC winning Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, and North Carolina ... I don't

know about the other states but it looks like the data analytics (not just polling data that Manafort
& Gates knowingly passed onto a known Russian agent passed Kilimnik) was used to rat fuck those
states.

I might be wrong but Manafort's confession of fucking over America and its voters for money and
there by installing Trump into the White House will get zero press coverage but if it was about HRC
and her emails it would get tons of press.

[Nevilledog]

36. Link to insider story

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-exclusive-interview-trump-campaign-polling-data-russia-kilimnik-2022-8

No paywall
https://archive.ph/0Pf6s

[Walleye]

2. It matters not whether he did it for money, or ideological reasons, or raw political ambition

The fact that he did it for money makes him a traitor, as far as I’m concerned.

[FalloutShelter]

4. SO many traitors so little time.

[Walleye]

6. Manafort has never gotten the punishment he deserves, and never will

Remember he was partners with Roger Stone back in the Nixon era

[PJMcK]

9. True

Manafort actually spent some time in prison. His wealth was hammered. He's probably finished in his so-called business because he no longer has any leverage. He's a marked man.

His life has been upended. He's lost his family. Now in his golden years, he's a nearly-broke pariah.

I can find some modicum of justice in Manafort's fate. Plus, I'm sure there's more trouble coming for him. I suspect the rest of his life he'll be looking over his shoulder in a well-earned paranoia.

[Walleye]

10. He should try confession, it's good for the soul

[PJMcK]

11. One little problem

Do you think Manafort has a soul?

I know Trump hasn't got one. But he'd never confess anyway.

[Lonestarblue]

15. I have no sympathy. He should be in jail.

[certainot]

22. 'free market capitalists' (or republicans) can rationalize doing anything they want for money

[Walleye]

24. Yep. I have noticed that making a profit justifies all kinds of immorality. Disgusting

[certainot]

30. limbaugh was a main spreader and a 'genius' at listing rationalizations like that, for them to

choose from

[Walleye]

40. Seems to be the main principle of the patriarchy

[musclecar6]

5. Gee

That’s the first Republican I’ve heard of that was only interested in THEIR wallet.

[FalloutShelter]

7. Right?

This whole party needs to be flushed! They are all complicit in their silence and acceptance of these traitors... for money.

[halobeam]

12. and if I'm not mistaken.. he brought us Pence? n/t

[FalloutShelter]

13. You are correct ... he brought Pence to the party.

From 2018-

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/do-we-remember-that-manafort-pick-pence

[Farmer-Rick]

14. Traitors often sell their loyalty

They only want wealth and anything else has no real meaning to them.

[TheBlackAdder]

25. I read that Putin detests traitors of their country, but loves traitors to other countries.

.

That is until they serve no further purpose.

.

[jaxexpat]

16. Unfortunately, I believe Trump was/is too stupid to take his cut. Complicit? Maybe not.

Yeah, Manafort was profiting off his 'Trump connections', but I could believe that Trump, failing another attempt to do more than one thing at a time, missed his opportunity to grift Manafort's grift.

[FalloutShelter]

18. Don't kid yourself.

Trump always gets his cut.

[jaxexpat]

20. The most appropriate thing possible to do with Trump is to laugh him off the stage.

In the most demeaning and dismissive fashion possible, this buffoon must disappear from the national conversation. Hopefully his last days will be spent as an anonymous number in prison, but I don't hold high hopes in that regard.

[triron]

34. Nope. That was tried and look where it got us.

[Walleye]

41. My idea is large groups of young women to stand around and laugh at him every time he says anything

He really hates being ridiculed but especially by women

[Lucky Luciano]

17. Of course it was for the money.

There would be no OTHER REASON.

They don’t adore each other. They only do this for money. By any means necessary.

[Jarqui]

19. What did Manafort expect the Russians to do with his polling data 'feed'?

Send once to show Trump might win is one thing.

Feeding the Russians with the data on an ongoing basis looks far more suspect (to say the least)

[sarcasmo]

21. Our eyes did Not deceive us, Russia, Russia, was real.

[Bluethroughu]

23. Treason.

[FalloutShelter]

26. YEP! It has always been TREASON.

From the moment he came down that escalator.

[Bluethroughu]

27. 100%

[sop]

28. Corruption and treason are all these people know.

[Novara]

33. This isn't new

We've known this for some time. Maybe not the details, but we knew the campaign was giving polling data to the Russians.

[spanone]

35. Where's the unredacted Mueller report?

I wonder....

[FalloutShelter]

39. Damned good question, that.

[budkin]

38. NO OBSTRUCTION! NO COLLUSION!

[Kid Berwyn]

42. Manafort owed the Russian Mob millions.

Which is why ALL ROADS LEAD TO PUTIN.



What Malcolm Nance said:

Anyone who has ever talked to a bookie knows that a person in debt never insults the person that they owe money to. So, by bringing this up, and making Donald Trump… Using his natural populous traits. When he used to do worldwide wrestling, he came on as the evil guy with a big check, and then by the end of the wrestling match he would be embracing the guy who was the hero, the good guy. Putin, I’m sure, and his psychologist, and his scholars, saw that he had a draw for the base level American, the Wal-Mart shopping American. Even though he was a brash, supposedly rich guy, he had a way of touching them. I am absolutely certain that this was the calculation that they made, that he was not only popular in Russia, he was the kind of authoritarian Putin would like to fund, because Putin had been funding authoritarian governments all over Europe. To get the United States, and put this guy in as an ally, would just be monumental.

Snip...

Then they found the black book with all of the cash payments in there, which identified that Manafort may have made somewhere between $20 and $70 million of black money that he was money laundering into the United States. The very fact that he would come back again as Donald Trump’s campaign manager, shows a level of George Smiley-John le Carré level coordination, that those of us in the intelligence community just would have to chase down. Because as I like to say, “Coincidence takes a lot of planning.” That’s an old intelligence community dictum.

Continues...

Source: https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/22/from-useful-idiot-to-working-asset/

[FalloutShelter]

43. Effing- A- Right!

Now just imagine if January 6 had worked, and Trump declared himself President. Putin could have walked right into Ukraine and maybe all of EU. Let's not forget who wanted to pull the US out of NATO> it all goes back to PUTIN.

[triron]

44. Knr

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

45. Republicans are traitors