Which Trumpista Is Most Deeply Involved with Russia?

[Leith]

I think

The big players:
Michael "Who? Who?" Cohen
Jared Kushner
Carter Page, of course
Mike Flynn

Smaller players probably include Bannon and Ivanka.

Clueless dupes:
KellyAnne
Spicer

[Eyeball_Kid]

1. I wonder about this:

When Flynn was going to the NSC meetings, WAS HE BUGGED with Russian devices?

[onecaliberal]

2. Very good question

[Boomerproud]

3. Trump himself.

n/t

[femmocrat]

4. I believe it's drumpf.

He supposedly owes the Russians millions and money-laundered through his casinos and property sales.

[OnDoutside]

5. Yes, I think it is Trump as well, going back years but ramped up when he nearly went

bankrupt in 2008.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Tillerson is likely "the brains"

[BannonsLiver]

7. Agree on SmellyAnne err KellyAnne

On some level given his position as head of the RNC I've always felt Preibus had some level of involvement.

[SecularMotion]

8. Manafort

How Paul Manafort Wielded Power in Ukraine Before Advising Donald Trump

WASHINGTON — Few political consultants have had a client fail quite as spectacularly as Paul Manafort’s did in Ukraine in the winter of 2014.

President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who owed his election to, as an American diplomat put it, an “extreme makeover” Mr. Manafort oversaw, bolted the country in the face of violent street protests. He found sanctuary in Russia and never returned, as his patron, President Vladimir V. Putin, proceeded to dismember Ukraine, annexing Crimea and fomenting a war in two other provinces that continues.

Mr. Manafort was undaunted.

Within months of his client’s political demise, he went to work seeking to bring his disgraced party back to power, much as he had Mr. Yanukovych himself nearly a decade earlier. Mr. Manafort has already had some success, with former Yanukovych loyalists — and some Communists — forming a new bloc opposing Ukraine’s struggling pro-Western government.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/01/us/paul-manafort-ukraine-donald-trump.html