One plausible explanation is simple hubris. Arrogance makes people stupid. But there are other indications that Manafort needed money, that he was overextended and desperate. But he, quite conspicuously, worked for Trump for free.
That’s odd. Because there’s nothing about Paul Manafort and his forty years in the US political world that suggests he works cheap or for free.
=========== Here are some questions that need to be asked.
How did Manafort come to work for Donald Trump? Apparently Roger Stone recommended him to Trump. (The two men are former business partners.) There is also what I have always considered an implausible story of how Manafort came to work for Trump by way of Trump confidante Thomas Barrack, head of Colony Capital.
===== The idea to bring in Manafort for advice started with Tom Barrack? Or it started with Manafort? How did it start? I think we need a much clearer explanation from Tom Barrack about just how he was involved in this.
As I noted yesterday, spies look for people who are crooked and people who are desperate. Manafort looks like he was both. How and why did he come to work for Donald Trump?
From what I'm seeing on Twitter, it seems the Fox News line is that the REAL scandal is that news of the indictment leaked on Friday.
ETA: Also on Fox:
I hate Fox (obviously). They're so many people's only source of news so a large portion of the population will continue to believe nothing was done wrong. If this does eventually take 45 down, they will riot.
OMG. I don't know if I should laugh or cry at this network.
And...my usual question. Anyone have IQ45 voters chiming in on the latest news? What are they saying?
I'm not friends with them anymore but I've been told by mutual friends that lately all they're doing is pretend they didn't vote for Tang Satan Turdface.
From what I'm seeing on Twitter, it seems the Fox News line is that the REAL scandal is that news of the indictment leaked on Friday.
ETA: Also on Fox:
I hate Fox (obviously). They're so many people's only source of news so a large portion of the population will continue to believe nothing was done wrong. If this does eventually take 45 down, they will riot.
I really don't think so. They'll be embarrassed to have been so publicly and willfully ignorant and 98% of the MAGATS will slink away quietly, and make exactly zero public comment about it ever again. Any public acknowledgment of it will be framed as "yeah, he maybe did that BUT HILLARY....."
In his massive thread, Seth Abramson wonders why Flynn has not been indicted yet. He concludes Flynn is either cooperating or there's another secret indictment (unlikely, in Abramson's opinion). Did he miss the "B"?!?
I'm guessing he has. It hasn't really gone viral on Twitter yet, I don't think, and he's so busy tweeting that I don't think he's reading or following what's going on around him.
The Trump campaign wasn’t Manafort’s first. He was seen as a part of GOP campaign world. Every candidate who employed him should now be suspect.
I don't think he had been doing campaign work for many years. I seem to recall that he had been a campaign guy in the 70s or maybe 80s, then got into lobbying. Which was why it was so strange that he suddenly took a campaign manager job. FOR FREE.
ETA his bio - I'm mostly right, except that he was an advisor to David Cop a Feel and Bob Dole.
Post by CheeringCharm on Oct 30, 2017 11:57:26 GMT -5
So it seems possible that Papadopoulos's testimony might bring down Sessions too as he was his supervisor?
"The advisory team, headed by US Senator Jeff Sessions, includes terrorism expert Walid Phares, energy industry executive Carter Page, international energy lawyer George Papadopoulos, former government inspector general Joe Schmitz, and former Army Lieutenant General Keith Kellogg, he told the Post in an on-the-record editorial board meeting, according to the media company." www.businessinsider.com/trump-names-foreign...led-by-senator-sessions-2016-3
I mean, would he go around emailing his contact, sharing info, and arranging meetings without letting his supervisor know?