Bloomberg: It was Manafort who alerted authorities to the Trump Jr meeting

[highplainsdem]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-10/with-bank-subpoenas-mueller-is-said-to-turn-up-heat-on-manafort

In fact, Manafort had alerted authorities to a controversial meeting on June 9, 2016, involving Trump’s son Donald Jr., other campaign representatives and a Russian lawyer promising damaging information on Hillary Clinton, according to people familiar with the matter. The president and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were dragged into the matter as details repeatedly emerged that contradicted the initial accounts of that meeting.

That might help explain the National Enquirer story attacking Manafort.

[C_U_L8R]

1. The rats are ratting out the other rats

The paranoia must be high in the White House these days.

[stopbush]

4. Never trust a businessman to have your back.

They're in it for #1.

Besides, ratting out someone else to avoid jail yourself is "just business."

[underpants]

2. Damn! Jr. outsmarted again!

[BSdetect]

3. Seems like he's either stupid or really spilling the beans in an attempt at a deal?

By stupid I mean they tricked him into admissions.

[Sanity Claws]

5. NY Times reporter said he had been working

On the story for a year when the Times finally published the article.
When did Manafort talk? Before or after someone had already tipped off a NYT reporter?

[ProfessorPlum]

6. i kind of object to this phrasing:

"The president and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were dragged into the matter as details repeatedly emerged that contradicted the initial accounts of that meeting."

The President and his son-in-law were "dragged" into the matter because they were active participants in the collusion. Not because 'details emerged'. They leapt in, they weren't dragged.