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6. Actually, it should read, "Handpicked by Paul Manafort at the direction of the Kremlin"
Thu Aug 27, 2020, 01:00 AM
Aug 2020

From: https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/pence-exposed-as-part-of-manaforts-right-wing-trans-atlantic-conspiracy/

Pence exposed as part of Manafort’s right-wing trans-atlantic conspiracy
September 17, 2018 1:48 PM CDT By Mark Gruenberg


The Justice Department documents said Yanukovych paid Manafort two million Euros, then equivalent to $2.5 million. Yanukovych is widely considered to be a corrupt puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who ordered Russia’s pro-Trump interference in the election.


And Pence? Well, that’s a direct Manafort tie to Trump – not Ukraine — without all the go-betweens.

Trump originally planned to name then-Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., as his running mate. Manafort inserted Pence, then the governor of Indiana who was going down the tubes politically after companies and conventions fled the state due to Pence’s anti-LGBTQ law.

“Manafort had arranged for Trump to meet with his first choice for the job on July 13: Pence,” Yahoo News reported.” Afterward, the plan was for Trump and Pence to fly back to New York together and a formal announcement would be made, a campaign source said of Manafort’s thinking. Set on changing Trump’s mind, he concocted a story that Trump’s plane had mechanical problems,” forcing Trump to stay overnight in Indianapolis with the Pences. That clinched it.
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