Posted on 08/25/2018 11:48:16 AM PDT by TBP
CNN recently asked a wide-range of Americans living in northeast Pennsylvania — Republicans, Democrats, and independents — for their opinions on President Donald Trump following the legal developments surrounding Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, two men deeply tied to the president.
It’s clear the segment did not go as CNN planned.
When CNN correspondent Jason Carroll asked residents in Luzerne County — which supported Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, but flipped to support Donald Trump in 2016 — for their thoughts on the president following this week’s news, he was met with reactions that will shock east coast elites.
Anne Marie Lenahan, a registered Democrat who voted for Obama then supported Trump, told Carroll she is able to overlook Trump’s moral failings. However, she added one caveat: She said it would not “be good” if money used to cover up Trump’s alleged infidelity came from “campaign funds.”
“However, I would still vote for him again,” she said.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
I disagree with you. I know some folks from that neck of the woods. The consensus on Manafort is that he’s a crooked swamp-dweller who was probably a Deep State mole in the Trump campaign and deserves everything he has coming to him. And they see Cohen as a shyster NYC lawyer who only worked for Trump because he got lost on his way to a job interview at the Clinton campaign headquarters in Brooklyn.
The MSM is the Country’s greatest threat.
Well, let’s hope they never find out why, and continue their race to the bottom.
Affairs, like JFK and Clinton. Not the highest conduct, but we all knew that when we elected him.
Trump hired Cohen because he was convenient. He was renting an office in Trump Tower.
What those interviewees are seeing, though, is a two-year investigation that's cost them at least $20 million that has so far come up with one guy who evaded taxes a decade ago and another who paid off a hooker. And not a shred of evidence that The Russians influenced the election. And a bunch of media bozos whose two-year refrain has been, "Just wait, we've got him now. Sure, it's illegal secret spying on people whose identities are secret done by secret means we can't tell anyone about because they're illegally leaked, presented as secret evidence in secret testimony in a secret court, but just trust us, it's legit." Right.
Regardless of Manafort’s virtue, he was prosecuted exclusively on the basis of his above-board and perfectly lawful and ethical relationship to Trump.
I believe most people understand this implicitly.
One smartaleck older friend of mine refers to the JFK years in the white house as CAME-ALOT.
Disregard the names and just look at what happened here: For a period of time in 2016 we had a presidential campaign where one major party candidate had spent years collecting bribes from foreign interests and the campaign chairman for the other major party candidate had made a fortune lobbying in Washington for those same foreign interests.
If there's anything "lawful" and "ethical" about that, then I think we've identified the heart of the problem.
Bottom line, the world knows that the chances of Manafort being prosecuted, absent the Trump tie and the BAMN philosophy of those who want to take Trump down, were exactly zero and not a scintilla more.
Actually, Citarella would be where the party leaders would be allowed to shop. They wouldn’t let the riff raff in even though they have no money to buy anything anyway, lol.
Congressional Research Report on lawyer taping:
“Wiretapping, Tape Recorders, and
Legal Ethics: An Overview of Questions
Posed by Attorney Involvement in
Secretly Recording Conversation”
https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42650.pdf
Especially the people who say,if he fires Mueller or Eisenstein they might reconsider voting for him?
Those people need to do some reading up on the history of these people and their collusion with Russians,especially Mueller and Mark Warner regarding Russian billionaire Oleg Derapaska.
Educate yourselves folks as to what these hounds are doing,they are covering their own corruption and malfeasance
In fact, I raised the possibility a few days ago that Manafort joined the Trump campaign specifically to serve as a globalist mole who would undermine Trump and facilitate outside surveillance of Trump's campaign. I've pretty much accepted that this was Carter Page's role all along ... I'm just not sure if he was an unwitting dupe or a willing conspirator.
If you review your comments you’ve basically convicted Manafort of doing unlawful or unethical things as a member of the Trump campaign, while admitting that you have no evidence whatsoever that any such thing occurred.
I suspect you may have internalized more of the Communist narrative than you are aware.
They played ball with La Cosa Nostra in Illinois to steal that State and then once in office turned on them. They brought LBJ on to the ticket to do the same in Texas and then treated him like s***. They OK'ed the CIA's plans in Cuba and then cancelled the necessary naval and air support, stranding thousands to their fate on the shores of the Bay of Pigs. They screwed everything in skirts, held drug parties in the White House, and got away with all of it because of a compliant and complicit press.
Tragic? OK. But also just about inevitable considering all the enemies they made and how close to the edge they lived.
nice summary and I totally agree
I looked for a link to any vid for this CNN report, to avoid Beck/Blaze. Couldn’t find one.
I did find an AP vid, where similar results...
No that was CVMALOT...
This may have been the best campaign ad of the 2016 election. I believe it came out in late September or early October of 2016. It would have been a comical joke if it came out much earlier because you could have had Manafort's photo posted at almost every point to personify what exactly "The Establishment" is ...
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