Trump ex campaign chief Manafort secretly worked for Russian billionaire to "benefit Putin gov"

[Jacque67 7,328]

Paul Manafort has insisted he never represented Russian political interests Getty

Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman once secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance Vladimir Putin’s interests, leaked documents have claimed.

Paul Manafort allegedly proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, despite claims from the Trump administration that he never worked in the Kremlin’s interests.

In 2005, Mr Manfort proposed a confidential strategy to influence politics, business and news coverage in the US and across Europe amid worsening relations between George W Bush’s government and Russia.

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“We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin Government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success,” Mr Manafort reportedly wrote in a memo to Oleg Deripaska, a close ally of the Russian president and aluminium magnate.

He added that the effort “will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government.” 

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/paul-manafort-donald-trump-campaign-chairman-russia-billionaire-vladimir-putin-government-kremlin-a7642916.html

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/lobbying-hires/325053-former-trump-aide-manafort-hires-crisis-communications

 

has hired crisis communications firm. Next expensive lawyers?

Roger Stone, who has lawyered up, has bragged about how he introduced Manafort to Trump....

which of them will sing first???? xoxo...

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

The whole Russian thing is so leisure suits and members only jackets.

 

We have moved on to golf hysteria

 

Please catch up 

[smilesammich 10,727]

3 minutes ago, Nature Boy Flair said:

The whole Russian thing is so leisure suits and members only jackets.

 

We have moved on to golf hysteria

 

Please catch up 

come on, both the russian thing and the golf thing are stuck to trump like a tattoo at this point. imagine how much better off trump could be right now if he only could control his mouth..

[Jacque67 7,328]

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even Fox News...

murdoch now side-stepping trump...but that's a whole nother new thread.#duckthesizeof100horses

Edited March 22, 2017 by Jacque67

[CaliCat 3,957]

30 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

come on, both the russian thing and the golf thing are stuck to trump like a tattoo at this point. imagine how much better off trump could be right now if he only could control his mouth..

I'd be happy if he could control his meds...

[Jacque67 7,328]

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort pushed back Wednesday on a report that he allegedly earned millions of dollars by helping Russian President Vladimir Putin's government push its interests around the world.

Manafort confirmed that he worked for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with close ties to Putin, but rejected an Associated Press report alleging that work was aimed at furthering the political interests of Putin's government.

"I worked with Oleg Deripaska almost a decade ago representing him on business and personal matters in countries where he had investments. My work for Mr. Deripaska did not involve representing Russian political interests," Manafort said in a statement his spokesman provided to CNN.

A spokesman for Deripaska told CNN on Wednesday that Manafort provided "investment consulting services" but declined to provide any additional details.

"There was an agreement between Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Manafort to provide investment consulting services related to business interests of Mr. Deripaska which now is a subject to legal claims," the spokesman said in a statement.

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Manafort pitched a plan to Deripaska to "greatly benefit the Putin government" and was subsequently paid millions of dollars, according to business records obtained by the AP and interviews the news outlet conducted with sources familiar with the matter.

It is just the latest report pointing to a link between Manafort and Russian interests.

Before he was brought aboard the Trump campaign, Manafort was well known for having served as an adviser to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was close to Putin and fled to Russia after he was ousted in the 2014 political crisis. Manafort was later named in a Ukrainian government investigation last summer after a ledger detailed millions of dollars in secret payments to Manafort, which he denied.

Manafort's connections to Russia faced fresh scrutiny last month after current and former US officials told CNN that high-level Trump campaign advisers, including Manafort, regularly communicated with Russians known to US intelligence. Manafort called the allegation "100% not true" and said he didn't "remember talking to any Russian officials, ever."

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday declined to comment on the latest report, telling CNN "we don't comment on non-White House employees."

That came two days after Spicer sought to diminish Manafort's role in the campaign, claiming he played a "limited role" even though Manafort was campaign chairman and effectively took over as campaign manager after the firing of Trump's first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. Manafort worked on the campaign from March until August 2016.

[Jacque67 7,328]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/22/politics/paul-manafort-russia/

 

crisis management firm... maloni 

 

bwah ha ha

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

10 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort pushed back Wednesday on a report that he allegedly earned millions of dollars by helping Russian President Vladimir Putin's government push its interests around the world.

Manafort confirmed that he worked for Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with close ties to Putin, but rejected an Associated Press report alleging that work was aimed at furthering the political interests of Putin's government.

"I worked with Oleg Deripaska almost a decade ago representing him on business and personal matters in countries where he had investments. My work for Mr. Deripaska did not involve representing Russian political interests," Manafort said in a statement his spokesman provided to CNN.

A spokesman for Deripaska told CNN on Wednesday that Manafort provided "investment consulting services" but declined to provide any additional details.

"There was an agreement between Mr. Deripaska and Mr. Manafort to provide investment consulting services related to business interests of Mr. Deripaska which now is a subject to legal claims," the spokesman said in a statement.

The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Manafort pitched a plan to Deripaska to "greatly benefit the Putin government" and was subsequently paid millions of dollars, according to business records obtained by the AP and interviews the news outlet conducted with sources familiar with the matter.

It is just the latest report pointing to a link between Manafort and Russian interests.

Before he was brought aboard the Trump campaign, Manafort was well known for having served as an adviser to Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who was close to Putin and fled to Russia after he was ousted in the 2014 political crisis. Manafort was later named in a Ukrainian government investigation last summer after a ledger detailed millions of dollars in secret payments to Manafort, which he denied.

Manafort's connections to Russia faced fresh scrutiny last month after current and former US officials told CNN that high-level Trump campaign advisers, including Manafort, regularly communicated with Russians known to US intelligence. Manafort called the allegation "100% not true" and said he didn't "remember talking to any Russian officials, ever."

White House press secretary Sean Spicer on Wednesday declined to comment on the latest report, telling CNN "we don't comment on non-White House employees."

That came two days after Spicer sought to diminish Manafort's role in the campaign, claiming he played a "limited role" even though Manafort was campaign chairman and effectively took over as campaign manager after the firing of Trump's first campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. Manafort worked on the campaign from March until August 2016.

Kelly Anne is basically saying, oh yeah we know about Flynn but those other guys?  Not part of the campaign and Trump never met them.

[Jacque67 7,328]

The White House on Wednesday sought to again distance itself from President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who is under increasing scrutiny over his connections to Russian business interests.

But even as Trump officials downplay Manafort’s role, his ­decade-long business associate Rick Gates remains entrenched in the president’s operation. Gates is one of four people leading a Trump-blessed group that defends the president’s agenda. As recently as last week, he was at the White House to meet with officials as part of that work.

Through Manafort, Gates is tied to many of the same business titans from Ukraine and Russia, including Oleg Deripaska, a Russian oligarch with strong ties to Russian President Vladi­mir Putin. On Wednesday, the Associated Press reported that Manafort had a multimillion-dollar contract with Deripaska between at least 2005 and 2009 that was aimed at helping the political interests of Putin.

[Jacque67 7,328]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manafort-is-gone-but-his-business-associate-remains-a-key-part-of-trumps-operation/2017/03/22/6ecbaa96-0f0f-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html

 

meanwhile stone put out two lame tweets.

 

shortly followed by trump retweeting bill mitchell who was tweeting links to the Gateway Pundit ( the GP links later removed)

 

pence very quiet....

[CaliCat 3,957]

So, another another person linked to the campaign had links to Putin, who just happened to help Trump get elected.  What a dumpster fire.

[Amica Nostra 4,803]

2 hours ago, CaliCat said:

So, another another person linked to the campaign had links to Putin, who just happened to help Trump get elected.  What a dumpster fire.

 

2 hours ago, Jacque67 said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/manafort-is-gone-but-his-business-associate-remains-a-key-part-of-trumps-operation/2017/03/22/6ecbaa96-0f0f-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html

 

meanwhile stone put out two lame tweets.

 

shortly followed by trump retweeting bill mitchell who was tweeting links to the Gateway Pundit ( the GP links later removed)

 

pence very quiet....

You have the right to remain silent, in the event you are already are a lawyer you should not be such a shmeghead to think that what you tweet on the internet does not count as a form of speech that can and will be used against you. 

 

Crazy theory # 345,567 :  All of these folks are living out their last days of Berlin fantasy burning the ground around them knowing that Putin will take them in with a tax haven and home in Yalta just like Gérard Depardieu and Steven Segal.  "Home is that place that when you have to go there, they have to take you in."

 

[Jacque67 7,328]

S. Treasury Department agents have recently obtained information about offshore financial transactions involving President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, as part of a federal anti-corruption probe into his work in Eastern Europe, The Associated Press has learned.

Information about Manafort's transactions was turned over earlier this year to U.S. agents working in the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network by investigators in Cyprus at the U.S. agency's request, a person familiar with the case said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss a criminal investigation.

The Cyprus attorney general, one of the country's top law enforcement officers, was made aware of the American request.

A spokesman for Manafort did not immediately respond to questions from the AP.