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In reply to the discussion: THE STENCH OF POLITICAL DEATH IS GROWING AROUND TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN [View all]Kid Berwyn
(15,616 posts)79. The traitor stepped down from his recent RNC gig today.
How Paul Manafort Tried to Make Money With a Project Supposedly Tied to the Chinese Regime
Read the confidential memo he wrote about the deal.
by David Corn
Mother Jones, May 10, 2024
In March, the politerati were atwitter over what appeared major news: Longtime political operator, lobbyist, wheeler-dealer, and (pardoned) felon Paul Manafort was in talks to join Donald Trumps 2024 presidential campaign. This seemed an odd move, given all of Manaforts schemings over the years. A more recent Manafort business ventureunknown to the publicraises further questions about him and his attempt to return to the Trump fold. According to documents obtained by Mother Jonesincluding a memo written by Manaforttwo years ago, Manafort was trying to orchestrate a $250 million deal to create a streaming service in China in a project that he asserted was blessed by the Chinese government and that was partnering with a Chinese telecommunications firm sanctioned by the US government.
On Friday morning, the Washington Post, which obtained the same documents, broke the news of Manaforts involvement in this endeavor.
Manafort was Trumps campaign manager for part of 2016until Trump dumped him after allegations emerged that Manafort had pocketed $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments a few years earlier from a pro-Russia political party in Ukraine. (His lawyer denied he had received this money.) Two years later, as a result of special counsel Robert Muellers investigation of the Trump-Russia scandal, Manafort was found guilty of and pleaded guilty to assorted financial crimes related to his consulting work in Ukraine, including bank fraud and conspiring to defraud the United States. He was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison and sent off to the hoosegow. (He was released to home confinement during the Covid pandemic.) In 2020, a bipartisan report from the Senate Intelligence Committee declared Manafort a grave counterintelligence threat, revealing that during the 2016 race he had repeatedly passed Trump campaign inside information to a former business associate who was a Russian intelligence officer and a Kremlin agent. In his final weeks in the White House, Trump pardoned Manafort.
In the years since Trump cleaned his slate, Manafort has mostly maintained a low public profile. During part of that stretch, he privately endeavored to facilitate a huge deal in China. Emails and memos show that in May 2022 Manafort was working with a privately-held Hong Kong-based company called Standard Huaxia Limited to set up a new streaming company in China dubbed Doorways. Manafort and his colleagues were looking to raise an initial $25 million for the project that Manafort noted was seeking $250 million.
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This memo stated the Chinese Govt has agreed to endorse and support the development of Doorways in a variety of ways with the plan to take the company public within 18 months from launch, and it maintained, Doorways will be the first [joint venture] Chinese-American company to be involved in ownership and operation of a major internet vehicle in China.
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https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/paul-manafort-china-trump-doorways/
Still weaseling to make money for the vilest, Manafort will find a way to crawl back into his pardoners pocket.
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THE STENCH OF POLITICAL DEATH IS GROWING AROUND TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN [View all]
Tom of Temecula
May 10
OP
I DON'T like the sound of it. He is taking in $$ but not spending on campaign. Took over RNC, paws on their $$?
Attilatheblond
May 11
#55
he expects the locals and state level to pay for everything and do all the work. nt
msongs
May 10
#3
Or like putin's hero said - it's not who votes, it's who gets to count the votes.
erronis
May 11
#48
I'd wait to see its lifeless unbreathing body before popping the champagne and blowing the party horns...
0rganism
May 10
#9
it was all MSM. news, radio, TV, magazines.. all done for free in 2015 and 2016....
Traurigkeit
May 11
#51
Don't you think that a lot of external entities were pumping (dis/mis)information into the stream?
erronis
May 11
#63
No one did that...because. We have no primary this year. And there was no organized opposition who favored another
Demsrule86
May 11
#43
I wouldn't worry about it...this is a way different election...Biden won't get scewed like Hillary did a couple of weeks
Demsrule86
May 11
#86
TSF doesn't believe in Mailed Votes or Early Voting, so why should it spend its money on a ground game?
Traurigkeit
May 11
#21
Part of that Washington Post article you quoted from, details that Trump plans to
DemocraticPatriot
May 11
#25
The main purpose of the Biden-Harris campaign....KICK A MAN WHEN HE"S DOWN!
ProudMNDemocrat
May 11
#37
Like some Ds in 2016. Staying home or protest voting got us screwed, so turnabout? n/t
ArkansasDemocrat1
May 11
#88
The death toll can not come quick enough and then a wooden stake needs to be drive.
republianmushroom
May 11
#49
Gee, who would have thought that only speaking to your bubble is not how you win?
Initech
May 11
#50
I'm not sure Big Oil is stupid enough to public to take Trump's bait after it was state in such an openly
Martin68
May 11
#69
A loser. Everyone runs away from a loser. I love it, everyone is starting to see (tRUMP's lackeys) tRUMP's failings
SWBTATTReg
May 11
#70
let us hope he fades away, one way or another. He is a true sociopath and I will revel in no longer hearing the name.
Evolve Dammit
May 11
#80
The words from 'Starway To Heaven ''Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings" sure apply here!
ArkansasDemocrat1
May 11
#82