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FBI Probe Claims First Trump Scalp

Mueller has claimed his first scalp. This is big news. I don’t understand how Trump let it get this far. I assumed that the Mueller probe was allowed to do its thing with the implicit understanding that it was just to smooth over Democrat ruffled feathers and give lip-service to their concerns.

Now, it seems that the investigation has teeth.

So here’s the story:

Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, Paul Manafort, has been charged with conspiring to defraud the US in his dealings with Ukraine.

The 12 charges brought against Mr Manafort and one of his business associates, Rick Gates, include conspiracy to launder money.

They stem from an inquiry into alleged Russian meddling in the US election.

It has emerged that another adviser to Mr Trump admitted this month to lying about his links to Russia.

George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making false statements to FBI agents about his dealings with an unnamed overseas academic who allegedly informed him that the Russians possessed “dirt” on Mr Trump’s presidential opponent, Hillary Clinton.

The charges against Mr Manafort and Mr Gates do not relate to Mr Trump’s campaign but to the alleged concealment of payments from the pair’s Ukrainian business dealings up to 2016.

In other words, they couldn’t prove or find anything, so they had to hit them on their taxes. That’s how it works in America, if the authorities can’t get you on political grounds, they get the IRS on you, and god help you if you think that you’re somehow immune.

Somewhere, somehow, you have violated tax code, I guarantee it. Manafort’s crime according to the Establishment is helping Trump get elected.

That being said, what was Manafort doing playing footsie with Yanukovitch, the former president of Ukraine?

Ukraine has been basically the Wild West since the 90s. You can come and buy anything, invest in anything, get great deals if you know who to bribe.

In other words, Manafort was far from being a boy scout.

Mr Manafort is accused of having laundered more than $18m (£14m) through offshore bank accounts, using it to buy property, goods and services in transactions concealed from the US authorities.

He is said to have “used his hidden overseas wealth to enjoy a lavish lifestyle” in America.

I suspect that Manafort did in fact do some shady stuff in Ukraine that’s coming back to bite him. But he’s not the only one wheeling and dealing in Eastern Europe. People forget that Democrats had their hands in the cookie jar as well. Joe Biden put his son, Hunter Biden, in charge of a fracking operation for gas in Ukraine until his heroin (or cocaine?) addiction made him quit.

I don’t see Biden getting charged with financial fraud.

Besides, Manafort did this years ago, when the US was cozying up the corrupt Yanukovitch regime. So what is the real motivation behind the charges leveled at him?

The good news for Mr Trump is these charges stem from Mr Manafort’s past business dealings, not his campaign efforts. He is being accused of working for years for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians and laundering millions in subsequent payments.

It certainly makes Mr Trump’s decision to cut Mr Manafort loose last August after details emerged of his Ukrainian ties seem a wise one.

The good news has its limits, however. Mr Manafort will be under growing pressure to co-operate with the Mueller investigation. If he offers up useful information about his time during the campaign, this could be just the first domino to fall.

Someone somewhere in the Swamp has pinpointed him as a weak link in the chain and is applying pressure. The message that Mueller is sending is clear: associate or help Trump in any way and you get the screws.

Normally, I’d be cheering for Manafort getting the book thrown at him. He deserves it for helping corrupt scum steal the wealth of the Ukrainian people. But again, he’s not really being charged for that.

The US Establishment doesn’t care if you steal money abroad. They only care if you support Trump.

Meanwhile, the Russians are being snarky and pointing out that the report written up to indict Manafort is rife with errors. Like for example, erroneously citing that Yulia Timoshenko was president of Ukraine at the time. She has never been president:

“This is a very important moment showing the way how, once again, this document had been made, cooked up,” Zakharova added. “You understand when you talk about serious investigation one cannot allow things like that.”

This was probably thrown together by some interns last minute and the FBI was like, “whatever, let’s just run with it, the press is on our side anyway.”

I wonder what else will come of this. Will they start going after other Trump associates for financial irregularities? They might. They’re going all out with this one.

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  • I know everyone in Hollywood and media hate the Alt Right…but did the of the spirit of Alt Right infect America in taking a stand against Jewish Power?

    So many of the men charged with sexual harassment and rape are Jews. And many accusers are gentiles.
    When did we see gentiles rise up en masse against the Jews?

    These complainers are mostly Liberal and hate the Alt Right, but they seem to be emboldened by a spirit. A new spirit. A spirit that tells them to be bold and speak up… against the Power. Jewish Power.

  • “I don’t understand how Trump let it get this far.”

    when it comes to this insider DC stuff listen to McFeels – this isn’t a Trump scalp; it’s the first step in taking Clinton’s scalp

  • I’m glad to see that this site has taken protective measures that will guarantee a safe space for everyone so that they may dialogue peacefully.

    Some harsh words have been delivered against the AltRight in recent months. Reading over Kevin Spacey’s bio, it’s become apparent that being raped by a father who sported a Hitler mustache explains much of the “damaged goods” that make up your vibrant movement. In Jacqui’s world, there are no damaged goods, just people who need signs of respect and appreciation. We all need and there is no weakness in reaching out to others for counsel and understanding.

    The Spacey story — sad as it is — also explains the high levels of homosexuality among the AltRight leadership. In HR, we welcome diversity, but frown upon anti-Semitism, homophobia, transphobia, transfatphobia, classicism (har!), classism, ageism, ableism, Islamaphobia, xenophobia and so on. Karen, our HR liason with you, is available by email or phone if you would like the full taxonomy. Everything you share with Karen will be held in the strictest confidence.

    In HR, we disagree much with the contents of this movement, but having learned that Kevin Spacey was repeatedly raped by his Nazi father for years, we can better understand the current orientation of the members of your enriching membership. Sexual molestation is a very serious matter and we in HR take charges of sexual assault and unsafe vibes very, very seriously. Richard Spencer has asked that we take good care of you and listen closely to your concerns and suggestions.

    We all have struggles and I have asked that HR representatives talk with your department heads about methods that we can employ to better integrate employees who identify as AltRight because of repeated sexual assault and molestation.

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    • Kevin Spacey is literally /yourguy/. The fact that he’s a gay pedo should have clued you in. You people throw around homosexuality as an insult while promoting trannys and all sorts of gay filth. Baffling how you can hold two such contradicting thoughts in your mind.

  • Which is why I will continue to support Donald Trump……

    I could give less than a F if anyone in the Alt-Right tries to criticize me………

    To me……

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    I wish we would get out of the Middle East………

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    But, the fact is that every Enemy of the Alt-Right also wants to Impeach President Trump……..

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  • Manafort has been a crook since Reagan and probably before then. He was only protected by politicians because he was a useful one.

  • why would anyone feel sorry for manafort or indignation at his idictment merely because he was once associated with trump? manafort is demonstrably a crook. he took beaucoup francs to lobby on behalf of mobuto sese seko for butt’s sake.

  • Did those two wild and crazy Roman Catholics, John Podesta and Paul Manafort know each other at Georgetown’s Law School?

  • People have a lot of alternative theories that could be true

    But the Occam’s Razor theory is that Jeff Sessions screwed over Trump (maliciously or otherwise, dunno) by letting Rosenstein have the opportunity to appoint Mueller

    It would be kind of funny, but not truly surprising if the conservative senator with the best record on immigration scuttled Trump’s (civic) nationalist, populist revolt.

    Should try to figure out his motivations, people just assume he’s /ourguy/ but I don’t believe that’s the case at all

  • Everyone engaged in international business and finance has the same legal liabilities as Paul Manafort, because they are operating in gray areas, that are legally ambiguous. A good example would be General Electric. Back in 2009 GE’s stock price was racing toward zero, because GE’s balance sheet looked sooo bad. The only thing that saved GE was former chairman of the board & CEO Jack Welsh getting on CNBC and explaining that GE had been running a tax shelter/scam in Europe, and the GE losses were only on paper and not real. That saved GE, but, you never heard of any Federal Government/IRS follow up—did you?

    Why pick on Manafort, and, Cyprus, when the Grand Caymans and other islands have served the same purpose for hundreds, if not thousands of US companies.

    We probably should take the attitude that Manafort is just another Roman Catholic asshole…who deserve what he gets.

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