Paul Manafort blew the whistle on Don Jrs secret Russia meeting: report

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

TRAVIS GETTYS
10 AUG 2017 AT 12:09 ET

Paul Manafort appears to be the source who revealed to congressional investigators that he attended a meeting last year with Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian lawyer promising damaging information against Hillary Clinton.

The former Trump campaign chairman’s home was raided late last month by FBI agents seeking evidence in a widening probe of his activity before the election — including his financial ties to Russian oligarchs — after his bank records were subpoenaed, reported Bloomberg Politics.

Federal investigators have been examining allegations that Manafort laundered money from Russia Eastern Europe through New York real estate, according to two sources familiar with that inquiry.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is now investigating those transactions, along with the purchase of Trump properties by wealthy Russians over the past decade and disgraced national security adviser Mike Flynn’s foreign entanglements.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/paul-manafort-blew-the-whistle-on-don-jrs-secret-russia-meeting-report/

[underpants]

1. Damn! Jr. outsmarted again!

What are the odds?!??

[CatWoman]

3. LOL

Hey you

[underpants]

25. Hey!!!

[iluvtennis]

14. LOL... too funny nt

[True Dough]

26. What's going on here between Cat Woman and Underpants?

Might be a bigger scandal than Manafort/Trump?!?!

[bluecollar2]

34. Skittles will make sure it's all on the up and up...

No Hanky Panky outside the lounge...

[Renew Deal]

2. Didn't Manafort have an apartment in Trump Tower?

[lark]

6. Yep, paid for in cash.

What a surprise!

[Yavin4]

52. The man always seems to have a lot of cash on him at all times.

Just bundles and bundles of it.

[leftynyc]

10. Actually an entire floor

Bought by an LLC in 2006 and transferred to Manafort personally in 2015.

[Catmusicfan]

4. Wonder who else Manfort is throwing under the bus. Senior?

[Scarsdale]

20. He knows where all the

bodies are buried! Would YOU go to prison to protect tRump or any of his associates? I wouldn't, they are not worth it. Are there ANY decent, law abiding, HONEST people who associate with tRump? He draws the undesirables like flies to - well - you know.

[lindysalsagal]

48. MSNBC talking today that 45 &MANAFORT aren't close: meet at the campaign.

So, no. He's not taking the fall for 45 or the kids.

[dhill926]

5. waiting for a new National Enquirer expose...

coming soon...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Trump's pet paper, NatEnq, ran a salacious story on Manafort hours after his house raided by FBI.

Back in July. The raid was only revealed recently. You probably knew this, but some readers might have missed it.

[dhill926]

8. yep...

[jimmil]

28. They already did it...

They sleezed Manafort in a sex thing with a woman younger than his daughter. Why do repugs always do the sleezy sex thing when they try to do a number on enemies?

[LudwigPastorius]

9. ...

[HAB911]

11. +++++++++++

[AnotherMother4Peace]

13. The rats are turning on each other. Maybe they forgot to take the loyalty oath. nt

[Hekate]

18. This, with a side of Schadenfreude pie

[groundloop]

12. Rats on a sinking ship

I'm thinking that if Manafort ratted out Junior he most certainly spilled at least a few beans about 45* as well. This is getting interesting.

[Calista241]

33. A pardon solves all of Trumps supposed problems with Manafort.

Think Manafort is our savior will only lead to disappointment.

[better]

35. Actually, a pardon might create far worse problems than it would solve, for Trump

in that were Manafort to accept the pardon, if and (I hope) when he gets called as a witness in litigation against someone higher up the food chain involved with the same crimes, he would not be able to plead the 5th, which could prove to be decisive.

[Calista241]

36. That's when "I have no recollection" of that converaation

Comes into play.

[regnaD kciN]

51. Not if he's already spilled the beans in private interrogation

[Calista241]

53. Paul Manafort is probably a fairly smart guy.

You don't get paid as much as he got paid, in the business he was in, by not being able to keep secrets and not mouthing off to everyone.

He's known Mueller was the special council for months, and Manafort's name has been at the front of the whole Russian Interference movement for far longer. If he spilled the beans in a provable way, more than just hearsay, he'll probably still get a pardon, and it won't matter.

[sprinkleeninow]

42. Hold the wire! 😊 How could a pardon be possible for manafort

if he was only the campaign mgr. ❓
School me....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

44. President can pardon anybody for Federal crimes. But not state crimes such as New York crimes. . nt

[sprinkleeninow]

47. Thank you. Jogged my recollection.

Previous Presidents pardoned a variety of people. Including Thanksgiving turkeys.

What was I thinking.

This possibly getting embroiled in a conflagration w/ NK has got my grey matter scrambled.

It rides you like a wave. One minute you feel it will be resolved with smarts, then the next, a horrible sinking feeling comes. And they take turns doing your psyche in.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

43. Further, accepting a pardon is acceptance of guilt meaning TrumpRussia would have to be accepted. nt

[Me.]

15. Ponzi Schemes, Money Laundering, Aiding & Abetting The Enemy

Does it get any better than this?

[Botany]

22. You forgot election rigging too

I hope Mueller exposes that too. No way that nasty piece of work, Trump,
won fair and square. McConnell, Ryan, and Sessions either knew about that
"the fix was in" and or worked in the election rigging too. Ever since they
passed HAVA, the help Americs vote act, which put ERV machines into much
bigger play we have seen a red shift in voting returns.

[Me.]

23. I Sort Of Filed That Under Aiding & Abetting As An Overall Category For 'Treason'

[Sunlei]

16. trump also was buddie-buddie with Gaddafi and NY real estate.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

17. When was there any loyalty between thieves, liars, and crooks? nt

[mitch96]

24. I was thinking the same thing..

So much for tRump's staunch loyalty.... every rat for him self... Maybe Flynn next if not already??
Maybe Flynn ratted out Manafort??? Mueller did hire a attorney that specializes on flipping witnesses.
m

[Hekate]

19. Oh myyyyy

[lunatica]

21. It's beginning to get really juicy!!

[Rollo]

27. "Two people can keep a secret if one is dead..."

[SummerSnow]

29. So Manafort is the leaker!

He knows all the secrets.

[Freethinker65]

30. I hope he takes Pence down, and Ryan, and McConnell

[BonnieJW]

37. But then

you would have President Rex Tillerson. After the VP, then Speaker of the House, then Secretary of State. Right?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

40. You'd have the Senate President Pro Tempore, here being Orrin Hatch, after Speaker of the House.

Slightly less odious than the people before him, but not by a whole lot.

That being said, I wouldn't expect a two-fer or trifecta. First, in order for it to skip to Senate President Pro Tempore, the Speaker position would have to be vacant at the same time the President and Vice President have been removed. That in and of itself would be highly unlikely, especially since the mechanisms to get rid of the Speaker are different than that of President and Vice President.

Secondly, practically speaking unless Pence's complicity in the events is considered major, I doubt we'd be able to muster up enough support to get rid of him along with Trump. Republicans who would be willing to kick Trump to the curb would probably still rally around Pence unless we show that he was every bit as complicit as Trump was. Right now we have indications that Pence either knew or should have known about Mike Flynn's activities and probably lied about them, but I don't think that's going to be enough to convince Republicans to break with him.

Bottom line: Expect to get rid of Trump but unlikely anyone else.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

46. No. Doesn't work like that.

If the Vice-Presidency is vacant, the President appoints a new VP and Congress gets to approve.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

49. I think people are expecting Trump and Pence to be simultaneously impeached and removed.

Which would knock succession down to the Speaker.

I don't think that's going to happen, though.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

45. No. Doesn't work like that.

If the Vice-Presidency is vacant, the President appoints a new VP and Congress gets to approve.

[Still In Wisconsin]

31. Desperate rats are starting to attack and eat each other.

Expect more of this.

[turbinetree]

32. When is Wilbur Ross going to be asked to explain all of this "laundering at the Cyprus Bank" ?

[eleny]

38. I've been thinking about him for days

He has to be in Mueller's sights. And wasn't there discussion of McConnell and Ryan taking Russian oligarch money? If it's a web then they're all part of the investigation.

If he were smart Ross would resign and take to a boat in international waters.

[turbinetree]

50. And lets add the following congressmen from California McCarthy and Rohrabacher

and as for good old Wibur, I think he is toast, he's so deep what ever color his eyes are they are brown

[onetexan]

39. so the rumors that Manafort was spilling the beans is correct

the vultures are turning on their own

[L. Coyote]

41. How long until headlines read, "2016 Election Result Was Rigged" by Trump?

[truthisfreedom]

54. Why would anyone cooperate when 45 is promising universal pardons?

He's repeatedly announced that he can pardon anyone.

[dflprincess]

55. Would you trust him?

He was pretty quick to throw Manafort under the bus today - talking like he barely knew the guy.