This certainly sounds like an opus JIM!
But, hey, that's innocent compared to Manafort's willingness to be hired, actually being hired, and achieving the re-institution of soviet stooge power over Ukraine after the Orange Revolution ousted the communist stooges. Manafort is no communist and nothing vaguely resembling one but he is willing to be rented so long as there is enough money on the table.
Manafort is soooooo talented at corruption (and truly he is) that his corrupting ways are ordinarily not able to be confined to wrecking the United States, where he worked, as a young handmaiden of the GOP-E, for Feckless Ford against Ronaldus Maximus and after his handlers let him take Reagan's money, for Bush the Elder, Dole, and other obvious GOP-Es. That's where the $$$$$ is and always has been. Now he works for Trump and, if you don't think Trump is Establishment to the core, The Donald has a deal for you on the Brooklyn Bridge. Set up toll gates. Make a fortune. Why would he lie?
Manafort also rents himself out to those who will pay him enough $$$$$ to re-enslave an entire nation. P. J. has a portable red light, a portable mattress and a sack of quarters and will travel for enough $$$$$. Again see the Wikipedia article. P. J.'s profits or Ukrainian freedom? For P. J., it is his personal profit every time and screw the peasants.
Cue in 5..4..3..2..1, Trump loveslave fantasies that Wikipedia is nothing but an anti-Trump conspiracy trying to deny the Manhattan Motormouth (born to modest peasants in a cabin on a mountaintop in Tennessee....) who has gone to glory as absolutely the greatest briber, errr, contributor (yeah, that's the ticket!) to Demonrat satraps in human history the POTUS job that the worshipers of the Wall Almighty foolishly crave for him.
In a national interview yesterday, Manafort who succeeded in re-installing the soviet stooges to re-enslave Unkraine, had the gilt-edged effrontery to accuse Cruz of "Gestapo tactics" in beating the previous amateur hour managers of Trump's campaign a the use of well-established Party rules in the struggle for delegates (the ones who do the actual nominating). Manafort has engaged in exactly those tactics whenever someone ponies up enough $$$$$ to win the bidding for his competent services. "Gestapo" has nothing to do with it, as he well knows. No one is being marched off to the death camps. Trump's amateurs have simply been outsmarted before Manafort's arrival. It ought to be beneath Manafort's "dignity" to join Trump's campaign much less his whining, bitching and complaining every time Donald the Spoiled fails to get his way.
Yeah, it is an opus, all right, and it has only just begun as the zombies march across the landscape chanting Trump!, Trump!, Trump! Did I abuse you by disagreeing with you?
Mama, I will truly sympathize with you and the other Trumpies when he breaks your hearts either by being crushed by Hillary or by winning and betraying your every dream of what he might have been. When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. There is no joy in this campaign, no joy in America and soon, otherwise sensible people, including me MAY (not yet a guarantee) have to vote for this vicious, backbiting, Demonrat subsidizing, gossipmongering lowlife because he MIGHT be a smidgeon better than Hitlery. We may get raped but we don't have to enjoy it and I very much doubt that the Trump fantasy will survive the walkout of the disgusted conservatives who want more than celebrity and viciousness in a candidate.