Posted on 04/19/2016 7:15:35 PM PDT by writer33
The Donald Trump Campaign’s top delegate strategist, Paul Manafort, was previously employed as a lobbyist for a group charged by the Department of Justice with operating as a front for Pakistani spies, according to court records obtained by Yahoo News.
Manafort’s work in the 1990s as a registered lobbyist for the Kashmiri American Council was only one part of a wide-ranging portfolio that, over several decades, included a gallery of controversial foreign clients ranging from Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos and Zaire’s brutal dictator Mobutu Sese Seko to an Angolan rebel leader accused by human rights groups of torture. His role as an adviser to Ukraine’s then prime minister, Viktor Yanukovych, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, prompted concerns within the Bush White House that he was undermining U.S. foreign policy. It was considered so politically toxic in 2008 that presidential candidate John McCain nixed plans for Manafort to manage the Republican National Convention — a move that caused a rupture between Manafort and his then business partner, Rick Davis, who at the time was McCain’s campaign manager.
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This is more propaganda from that screaming, whining, little crybaby, Lyin Levin’s phony CR ...most items from CR, as well as Levin’s verbal garbage , should be totally disregarded at all times ...
The same could be said about you.
Nope, because I’ll vote for Trump in a heart beat over Hillary. I have no attachments to any candidate. I support one candidate over the other and nothing more.
Paul also said in a broadcast that working for Donald reminds him so much of what it was to work for Reagan including all the media smears.
Paul also has known Donald for 30 years and lives in Trump Towers in Manhattan.
I’m sure it’s a stinging comeback, but I have no idea what you’re talking about.
“Skin in the game” Jeb Cruz wanted Assad gone, replaced with freedom lovers.
I am simply saying that I am not attached in any way shape or form to any candidate. I have said and will continue to say that I will vote for any candidate over Hillary in a heart beat. I simply support Cruz over Trump. But in the end, it is a no brainer to me.
And it’s a book called by Eric Hoffer called, “True Believer.”
:-)
I don’t need an interpreter to tell me what Trump “means”
Good luck with that.
Oh btw,did you notice that Trump is at 60%+ in NY tonight?
It’s great news for Trump. Congratulations!
I’d vote for Cruz over Hillary. I’ve always said I’d vote for Cruz if he’s the nominee.
You nailed it ..Levin’s lackeys are trying to pull what Tedstate tried to do by inundating this site with pro-Cruz Cultist propaganda ...hopefully the Levin/Cruz Cultists propaganda push will be stopped dead in it’s tracks, just like Eric Erickson’s Tedstate was stopped ...
It’s a no brainer for me.
Eric Hoffer’s True Believer looks more like Ted Cruz. All Donald Trump wants to do is Make America Great Again! There is not a single video in existence where Donald Trump says his life goal is to take over and dominate the world. His life goal is to deliver the goods and give back. We do know that Ted Cruz, in addition to wanting to star in a Teen Titty Movie, wants “world domination”.
Deliver the Goods
You can’t con people, at least not for long. You can create excitement, you can do wonderful promotion and get all kinds of press, and you can throw in a little hyperbole. But if you don’t deliver the goods, people will eventually catch on.
I think of Jimmy Carter. After he lost the election to Ronald Reagan, Carter came to see me in my office. He told me he was seeking contributions to the Jimmy Carter Library. I asked how much he had in mind. And he said, “Donald, I would be very appreciative if you contributed five million dollars.”
I was dumbfounded. I didn’t even answer him.
But that experience also taught me something. Until then, I’d never understood how Jimmy Carter became president. The answer is that as poorly qualified as he was for the job, Jimmy Carter had the nerve, the guts, the balls, to ask for something extraordinary. That ability above all helped him get elected president. But then, of course, the American people caught on pretty quickly that Carter couldn’t do the job, and he lost in a landslide when he ran for reelection.
Ronald Reagan is another example. He is so smooth and so effective a performer that he completely won over the American people. Only now, nearly seven years later, are people beginning to question whether there’s anything beneath that smile.
I see the same thing in my business, which is full of people who talk a good game but don’t deliver. When Trump Tower became successful, a lot of developers got the idea of imitating our atrium, and they ordered their architects to come up with a design. The drawings would come back, and they would start costing out the job.
What they discovered is that the bronze escalators were going to cost a million dollars extra, and the waterfall was going to cost two million dollars, and the marble was going to cost many millions more. They saw that it all added up to many millions of dollars, and all of a sudden these people with these great ambitions would decide, well, let’s forget about the atrium.
The dollar always talks in the end. I’m lucky, because I work in a very, very special niche, at the top of the market, and I can afford to spend top dollar to build the best. I promoted the hell out of Trump Tower, but I also had a great product to promote.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 790-797). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
What’s Next
Fortunately, I don’t know the answer, because if I did, that would take half the fun out of it.
This much I do know: it won’t be the same.
I’ve spent the first twenty years of my working life building, accumulating, and accomplishing things that many said could not be done. The biggest challenge I see over the next twenty years is to figure out some creative ways to give back some of what I’ve gotten.
I don’t just mean money, although that’s part of it. It’s easy to be generous when you’ve got a lot, and anyone who does, should be. But what I admire most are people who put themselves directly on the line. I’ve never been terribly interested in why people give, because their motivation is rarely what it seems to be, and it’s almost never pure altruism. To me, what matters is the doing, and giving time is far more valuable than just giving money.
In my life, there are two things I’ve found I’m very good at: overcoming obstacles and motivating good people to do their best work. One of the challenges ahead is how to use those skills as successfully in the service of others as I’ve done, up to now, on my own behalf.
Don’t get me wrong. I also plan to keep making deals, big deals, and right around the clock.
Trump, Donald J.; Schwartz, Tony (2009-12-18). Trump: The Art of the Deal (Kindle Locations 4242-4252). Random House Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
I am really beginning to despair for people who don’t realize we need a revolution to get back to the Conservative Values that founded this country.
Glad Trump brought in somebody to fight Cruz, Soros and the rest of the oligarchy.
Cruz & McCain’s inside man Bruce Ash threatened to kneecap Tea Party members in Arizona.
but did you know ... a Saudi prince once stayed at a Trump hotel. Stone him!!
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