Hate to rain on the party but...the comments I'm seeing are all talking about how Manafort was working for Podesta during the timeframe mentioned in the charges. What's the story there?
I Googled and everything I see in this is from Fox or similar except this, which doesn't seem particularly nefarious:
I think this was posted a couple days ago. Possible FARA violations by Tony Podesta's lobbying group between 2012-2014. Discovered when Mueller dived down the Manafort rabbit hole. ETA: This article says that Podesta Group was working with Rick Gates, and now we know who he is.
ABC News Politics is saying on Twitter "BREAKING: Former Trump campaign advisor George Papadopolous has pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents."
I read the indictment but glossed over the tables of transactions, but a comment over on Celebitchy said that a lot of the transactions relate to Russia and the Russian lawyer, and the Seychelles stuff relates to DeVos, etc. I'm going to take another look. but basically if that's true, then even if this indictment doesn't say "Russia" or "trump campaign," its still heading in that direction.
Twitter says that his interviews directly related to the investigation into Russia collusion, and that "in March 2016, [he] met with a Russia-connected professor who told him they had 'thousands of emails' of 'dirt' on" HRC.
He's the young dude who is directly out of college and came into the campaign and within days sent emails to Jared, Paul Manafort, etc. (I believe) saying the Kremlin wanted to meet with someone from the campaign...let me try to find the article!!! ETA: www.newsweek.com/who-george-papadopoulos-trump-adviser-russia-650716
I'm seeing some other commentary from the right how this is NBD because it's all before the campaign. And I want to know what they are smoking. We have a guy who launders $18 million for the Russians who also happens to work FOR FREE for a presidential campaign that not only has a whole bunch of weird Russian ties, but a whole bunch of documented lies about those ties. How you can think the pre-campaign shit is completely unrelated is beyond me.
I realize that they probably don't actually believe that and just need to push this line to save their jobs and create confusion. But it's just so fucking dumb. Paul Manafort may have been a Putin crook who felt remorse for fucking over the country so he worked for free for Trump and wasn't at all tempted to do anything bad while in that role, and every weird Russia thing that happened was just a coincidence. That is the best spin they have.
I haven't been online nearly all weekend. I opened the board this morning and was like "How the fuck is the Trump Monday thread 8 pages? It's not even 9am!"
Apparently Mueller comes from the "Go Big or Go Home" school of federal indictments. I'm on page 6 and twirling around my office like Maria on top of a mountain.
This couldn't have happened on a worse day for me. I have so much shit to do.
I can't wait until Kushie gets what is coming. He is in so much debt there has got to be mountains of dirt.
Also Trump was a shit businessman, I look forward to finding out more about the Russians/mob propping up his businesses when US lenders realized he was shit investment due to all of his bankruptcies.
Is there any way that Manafort can talk? I would think he would be deathly afraid of retaliation against him or his family from the Russians.
Post by fuckyourcouch on Oct 30, 2017 9:45:33 GMT -5
So George's interview where he lied to the FBI about multiple things, including HRC's emails, was Jan 27. The same day 45 requested a comey loyalty pledge. 🤔🤔