Manafort's plan to 'greatly benefit the Putin Government'

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, secretly worked for a Russian billionaire to advance the interests of Russian President Vladimir Putin a decade ago and proposed an ambitious political strategy to undermine anti-Russian opposition across former Soviet republics, The Associated Press has learned. The work appears to contradict assertions by the Trump administration and Manafort himself that he never worked for Russian interests.

Manafort proposed in a confidential strategy plan as early as June 2005 that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government, even as U.S.-Russia relations under Republican President George W. Bush grew worse. Manafort pitched the plans to Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally with whom Manafort eventually signed a $10 million annual contract beginning in 2006, according to interviews with several people familiar with payments to Manafort and business records obtained by the AP. Manafort and Deripaska maintained a business relationship until at least 2009, according to one person familiar with the work.

"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," Manafort wrote in the 2005 memo to Deripaska. The effort, Manafort wrote, "will be offering a great service that can re-focus, both internally and externally, the policies of the Putin government."

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[sunonmars]

1. He's done, FBI should be hauling him in now.- Trump Campaign manager a russian mole.

He might get Putin'ed if he doesnt ask for protection and a deal soon.

[Blue_Roses]

2. WTF?

Geeze, this is one tangled-up mess. And the US is sitting smackdab in the middle of it.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. Paul who?

We've never heard of this "Paul" person!

[Blue_Roses]

4. That explains the distance from him in the presser

yesterday

[sunonmars]

5. This administration is a clusterfuck and they had a cheek to throw that shit at Hillary.

[JHan]

6. When do we start yelling fire?