You seriously question Ted Cruz’s employing Jeff Roe???
When Trump has just hired the ultimate sleaze bag
A couple of weeks ago, Donald Trump, following the personnel selection instincts that have made his name synonymous with “YGTBFKM” hired an aging political fixer named Paul Manafort as his “convention manager.” Manafort is a seedy individual with a sleazy history.
His supporters will tell you that he guided Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan to convention victories in 1976 and 1980, respectively. History tells a very different story and it doesn’t mention Manafort at all. For instance, Reagan showed up at the 1980 convention with enough delegates to win on the first ballot and with no opponents still actively campaigning.
Since then Manafort has made a career out of lobbying the US government on behalf of torturers, murders, rapists, and general sadists that no other lobbyist would be associated with… and that is a very, very high bar to cross.
Over the course of a long lobbying career in D.C., top Trump aide Paul Manafort and his firm made a fortune fronting for a group of clients once referred to as the “torturers’ lobby.”
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But over the years, they made millions by representing a rogue’s gallery of clients far away from D.C.’s genteel corridors of power: dictators, guerilla groups, and despots with no regard for human rights—including one man responsible for mass amputations, and another who oversaw state-sanctioned rape.
In more recent years, when he wasn’t allegedly sexually harassing women who worked for him, Manafort developed a bro-mance for Vladimir Putin, lobbied for a corrupt Ukrainian dictator who was a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin, and cavorted with a businessman who admitted to close ties to the Russian Mob. And he lobbied against Israel in the service of Saudi Arabia.
Manafort’s ties to the dangerous, the unsavory, the criminal, and the psychopathic reeked to such an extent that when his name was put forward to “manage” the 2008 GOP Convention, John McCain said “not no but hell no.“
Now we discover that Manafort was also a lobbyist for an astro-turf group, the Kashmiri American Council, that was actually a front organization for Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
That was smart of McCain. 2008 turned out just great.
Lobbyists...they lobby. Good grief, even Bob Dole is a lobbyist for a foreign country.
Yes, I question the judgment of Sen. Cruz to hire a Jeff Roe. You bet I do.
Mr Roe’s reputation was well-known in political circles as sleazy and dirty. Anything goes, no matter how low or despicable. Do your research and you’ll find it.
Mr. Manafort has no such reputation. He is effective. He might not represent your choice of clients but you won’t find a word about him saying he is dishonest or duplicitous. He is a straight shooter, even if you disapprove.
I’ll see ya in Cleveland, ladybug.
“when his name [Manafort] was put forward to “manage” the 2008 GOP Convention, John McCain said “not no but hell no.“
Makes sense. The presence of a winner made McCain shit his pants.