How Putin's Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team

[dajoki]

How Putin's Oligarchs Got Inside the Trump Team
http://time.com/5401645/putins-oligarchs/

The message from Moscow reached Paul Manafort at a crucial moment in the U.S. presidential race, just as he was about to secure the official Republican nomination for his client, Donald Trump. Manafort’s overture had been received, the July 2016 message informed him. And Oleg Deripaska, a Russian billionaire with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, would be back in touch soon.

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That offer has since come under the scrutiny of Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential race. His investigators want to know whether the Trump campaign had a secret back channel to the Kremlin, and Manafort has agreed to help them answer that question. As part of his guilty plea on Sept. 14 to charges stemming from the Mueller investigation, Manafort agreed to cooperate “fully, truthfully, completely, and forthrightly” with the special counsel.

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And in the Trumps, the oligarchs found plump targets. One Russian billionaire hosted Ivanka Trump and her husband, the President’s senior adviser, Jared Kushner, at a gala in Moscow in 2014. Another has links to a $500,000 payment to Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen in 2017. A third ran a propaganda operation that pumped pro-Trump content into the news feeds of millions of American voters. In the heat of the presidential race, a fourth tycoon arranged the meeting where a Russian lawyer offered dirt on Clinton to Trump’s closest aides. And then of course there was Deripaska, whose years of fishing for friends in Washington eventually got the chairman of a presidential campaign on the line.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. You'd have to be blind to all facts to see how incredibly corrupted Trump was.

And how blatant and obvious it is.

[Enoki33]

2. Useful to remember that the millions lavished, loaned and used to

install tRump in politics was money stolen from the Russian and Ukrainian people. It is blood money, as one of Manafort’s daughters called it.

[Pachamama]

3. Trump is a corrupt criminal and a traitor to our Nation...

Don the Con/Traitor Trump will go to Prison and spend the rest of his miserable existence in disgrace and remembered forever as a horrible shit stain on this planet....