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In reply to the discussion: Manafort is the key to the whole Putin/Trump/Ukraine plot. [View all]tanyev
(42,552 posts)29. Manafort contacted the Trump campaign and offered his services. For free.
But it was Mr. Manafort who initiated the process for getting a job on the campaign, the documents show. It began when he sent two succinct memos to Mr. Trump through Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a mutual friend.
In five single-spaced pages of punchy talking points, Mr. Manafort showed how as a onetime lobbyist he had adeptly won over rich and powerful business and political leaders, many of them oligarchs or dictators, in Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines and Pakistan.
He began by telling the candidate he lived on an upper floor of Trump Tower. This was no trivial point: It signaled his wealth and a willingness to work 15-hour days in a building that housed both his lavish apartment and Mr. Trumps bare-bones campaign. It also meant Mr. Manafort had already put his money in the form of an apartment purchase into Mr. Trumps brand, which meant a lot to the candidate, a transactional developer and politician, aides said.
Plus he had a powerful closers move: He would work for free. I am not looking for a paid job, Mr. Manafort wrote.
Mr. Barrack drove home the point in his cover letter, writing, He would do this in an unpaid capacity. And over the next few months, according to several associates, Mr. Trump would repeatedly boast about the value he was getting from Mr. Manafort.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/to-charm-trump-paul-manafort-sold-himself-as-an-affordable-outsider.html
In five single-spaced pages of punchy talking points, Mr. Manafort showed how as a onetime lobbyist he had adeptly won over rich and powerful business and political leaders, many of them oligarchs or dictators, in Russia, Ukraine, the Philippines and Pakistan.
He began by telling the candidate he lived on an upper floor of Trump Tower. This was no trivial point: It signaled his wealth and a willingness to work 15-hour days in a building that housed both his lavish apartment and Mr. Trumps bare-bones campaign. It also meant Mr. Manafort had already put his money in the form of an apartment purchase into Mr. Trumps brand, which meant a lot to the candidate, a transactional developer and politician, aides said.
Plus he had a powerful closers move: He would work for free. I am not looking for a paid job, Mr. Manafort wrote.
Mr. Barrack drove home the point in his cover letter, writing, He would do this in an unpaid capacity. And over the next few months, according to several associates, Mr. Trump would repeatedly boast about the value he was getting from Mr. Manafort.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/us/to-charm-trump-paul-manafort-sold-himself-as-an-affordable-outsider.html
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K&R "2016: Manafort and Trump secretly hack the RNC Platform to remove support for Ukraine."
AnotherMother4Peace
Mar 2022
#5
don't forget palin. when manafort was mccain campaign cochair, limbaugh would not support mccain
certainot
Mar 2022
#57
Hmm...what happened to the wheelchair he needed for his court appearances? nt
allegorical oracle
Mar 2022
#52
RW attack is to say Obama engineered a coup against Yanukovych in 2014. Manafort omitted. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Mar 2022
#16
Indeed! I knew that and then forgot it. Been a busy five years...welcome!
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2022
#64
Does this tell you anything? Because whatever he made on the campaign was nothing compared
ancianita
Mar 2022
#41
Any notes on others traveling to Dubai of late??? Who else was involved in Manafort's meetup???
ultralite001
Mar 2022
#49
Unfortunately there are lots of ways of leaving the country without going through
erronis
Mar 2022
#51
Can "We the People" get the damn un-redacted Mueller report???? Losing faith rapidly
Evolve Dammit
Mar 2022
#65
Free should be in quotes; Not sure if the plaform change was in secret, but yeah, for sure he's at
themaguffin
Mar 2022
#66