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In reply to the discussion: YES the Trump campaign was in bed with the Russians.... [View all]Kid Berwyn
(25,160 posts)42. Manafort owed the Russian Mob millions.
Which is why ALL ROADS LEAD TO PUTIN.

What Malcolm Nance said:
Anyone who has ever talked to a bookie knows that a person in debt never insults the person that they owe money to. So, by bringing this up, and making Donald Trump Using his natural populous traits. When he used to do worldwide wrestling, he came on as the evil guy with a big check, and then by the end of the wrestling match he would be embracing the guy who was the hero, the good guy. Putin, Im sure, and his psychologist, and his scholars, saw that he had a draw for the base level American, the Wal-Mart shopping American. Even though he was a brash, supposedly rich guy, he had a way of touching them. I am absolutely certain that this was the calculation that they made, that he was not only popular in Russia, he was the kind of authoritarian Putin would like to fund, because Putin had been funding authoritarian governments all over Europe. To get the United States, and put this guy in as an ally, would just be monumental.
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Then they found the black book with all of the cash payments in there, which identified that Manafort may have made somewhere between $20 and $70 million of black money that he was money laundering into the United States. The very fact that he would come back again as Donald Trumps campaign manager, shows a level of George Smiley-John le Carré level coordination, that those of us in the intelligence community just would have to chase down. Because as I like to say, Coincidence takes a lot of planning. Thats an old intelligence community dictum.
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Source: https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/22/from-useful-idiot-to-working-asset/
What Malcolm Nance said:
Anyone who has ever talked to a bookie knows that a person in debt never insults the person that they owe money to. So, by bringing this up, and making Donald Trump Using his natural populous traits. When he used to do worldwide wrestling, he came on as the evil guy with a big check, and then by the end of the wrestling match he would be embracing the guy who was the hero, the good guy. Putin, Im sure, and his psychologist, and his scholars, saw that he had a draw for the base level American, the Wal-Mart shopping American. Even though he was a brash, supposedly rich guy, he had a way of touching them. I am absolutely certain that this was the calculation that they made, that he was not only popular in Russia, he was the kind of authoritarian Putin would like to fund, because Putin had been funding authoritarian governments all over Europe. To get the United States, and put this guy in as an ally, would just be monumental.
Snip...
Then they found the black book with all of the cash payments in there, which identified that Manafort may have made somewhere between $20 and $70 million of black money that he was money laundering into the United States. The very fact that he would come back again as Donald Trumps campaign manager, shows a level of George Smiley-John le Carré level coordination, that those of us in the intelligence community just would have to chase down. Because as I like to say, Coincidence takes a lot of planning. Thats an old intelligence community dictum.
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Source: https://whowhatwhy.org/2019/11/22/from-useful-idiot-to-working-asset/
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"Manafort told Insider that he directed his deputy, Rick Gates, to feed Kilimnik polling data..."
Botany
Aug 2022
#1
The screw job of the by Russia of our elections in 2016 was well known. Russ feingold was @ 90% ..
Botany
Aug 2022
#8
trump guy sam nunberg "listened to 1000s of hours of talk radio" for trump in 2014 and what investig
certainot
Aug 2022
#29
Exit polls had in 2016 had HRC winning Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, and North Carolina ... I don't
Botany
Aug 2022
#37
It matters not whether he did it for money, or ideological reasons, or raw political ambition
Walleye
Aug 2022
#2
'free market capitalists' (or republicans) can rationalize doing anything they want for money
certainot
Aug 2022
#22
Yep. I have noticed that making a profit justifies all kinds of immorality. Disgusting
Walleye
Aug 2022
#24
limbaugh was a main spreader and a 'genius' at listing rationalizations like that, for them to
certainot
Aug 2022
#30
I read that Putin detests traitors of their country, but loves traitors to other countries.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2022
#25
Unfortunately, I believe Trump was/is too stupid to take his cut. Complicit? Maybe not.
jaxexpat
Aug 2022
#16
The most appropriate thing possible to do with Trump is to laugh him off the stage.
jaxexpat
Aug 2022
#20