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Trump's mouthpiece, Paul Manafort, looks like a croupier at a 2 1/2 star Vegas hotel and casino (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
May 2016
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Mendocino
(7,488 posts)1. A game show host
or maybe a mob lawyer?
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)2. The latter... Actually a mob lawyer has won Vegas mayoral elections.
Now his wife is the mayor.
Mendocino
(7,488 posts)4. When they make the Trump movie,
Nathan Lane can play this guy.
underpants
(182,789 posts)3. Tom Delay and Chuck Woolery spawned
Woolery (Wheel of Fortune) still does sales pitches on radio ads.
Laxman
(2,419 posts)6. I Thought That WAS A Game Show Host....
the Joker's Wild! So fitting for Trump.
lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)5. Looks like an infomercial host.
Normally seen on cable channels at 2 AM.
"I'm here to tell you about an amazing breakthrough ... "
CanonRay
(14,101 posts)7. He is about as sleazy as they come
spanone
(135,830 posts)8. he's one creepy shit
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)9. here you go, from daily beast/spy magazine:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/04/13/top-trump-aide-led-the-torturers-lobby.html
https://books.google.ca/books?id=qnVC8yS4N_AC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
the above is an entire article from 1992's Spy, which details, in prank form, the lengths to which monsters like Charles Black, Manafort, and Lee Atwater would go in order to make a living.
if anyone wants to get a real-time glimpse of the man of the hour, try this:
https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=spy+archives&=#hl=en&tbm=bks&q=donald+trump+spy+magazine++
as Spy devoted a good deal of space to him from its inception in 1986 to its demise in 1998
here's a link which has a bunch of Spy articles gathered together:
http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/08/spy-vs-trump-the-best-donald-trump-moments-from-spy-magazine-1986-98.html
https://books.google.ca/books?id=qnVC8yS4N_AC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA62&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
the above is an entire article from 1992's Spy, which details, in prank form, the lengths to which monsters like Charles Black, Manafort, and Lee Atwater would go in order to make a living.
if anyone wants to get a real-time glimpse of the man of the hour, try this:
https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=spy+archives&=#hl=en&tbm=bks&q=donald+trump+spy+magazine++
as Spy devoted a good deal of space to him from its inception in 1986 to its demise in 1998
here's a link which has a bunch of Spy articles gathered together:
http://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2015/08/spy-vs-trump-the-best-donald-trump-moments-from-spy-magazine-1986-98.html
Gabi Hayes
(28,795 posts)10. for those who haven't seen stuff like this, or who'd liked a refresher:
Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly was one of the first political consulting concerns to work for Ronald Reagan's Presidential candidacy in 1980. Since then it has become a power broker that thrives on a hardball approach.
Since 1980, when it was formed to consult conservative Republicans, Black, Manafort has hired some Democrats to broaden its influence and has branched out into lobbying. Its client list includes the Government of Somalia, the Tobacco Institute, Aetna Life & Casualty, Bethlehem Steel, the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, Trans World Airlines and the Chicago Regional Transit Authority.
The principals in the concern, Charles R. Black Jr., Paul J. Manafort, Roger J. Stone and Peter G. Kelly, were key strategists in President Bush's campaign last year.
Lee Atwater, the Republican national chairman, became a full partner in Black, Manafort after the 1984 Presidential campaign, and later moved on to head Mr. Bush's Presidential campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html
and most still vividly remember the honorable Roger Stone
https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+stone&biw=911&bih=391&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiXt5qFy9zMAhXICD4KHcnHAaQQ_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=roger+stone+tattoo
Since 1980, when it was formed to consult conservative Republicans, Black, Manafort has hired some Democrats to broaden its influence and has branched out into lobbying. Its client list includes the Government of Somalia, the Tobacco Institute, Aetna Life & Casualty, Bethlehem Steel, the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration, Trans World Airlines and the Chicago Regional Transit Authority.
The principals in the concern, Charles R. Black Jr., Paul J. Manafort, Roger J. Stone and Peter G. Kelly, were key strategists in President Bush's campaign last year.
Lee Atwater, the Republican national chairman, became a full partner in Black, Manafort after the 1984 Presidential campaign, and later moved on to head Mr. Bush's Presidential campaign.
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/21/us/a-political-power-broker.html
and most still vividly remember the honorable Roger Stone
https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+stone&biw=911&bih=391&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiXt5qFy9zMAhXICD4KHcnHAaQQ_AUICCgD#tbm=isch&q=roger+stone+tattoo
Vinca
(50,269 posts)11. I would've guessed cast member on "The Sopranos."
UTUSN
(70,686 posts)12. A combo of "creep" and "sleeze" - filthy rehabilitator of oligarch dictators. n/t