Posted on 09/20/2017 7:19:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Less than two weeks before Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination, his campaign chairman offered to provide briefings on the race to a Russian billionaire closely aligned with the Kremlin, according to people familiar with the discussions.
Paul Manafort made the offer in an email to an overseas intermediary, asking that a message be sent to Oleg Deripaska, an aluminum magnate with whom Manafort had done business in the past, these people said.
“If he needs private briefings we can accommodate,” Manafort wrote in the July 7, 2016, email, portions of which were read to The Washington Post along with other Manafort correspondence from that time.
The emails are among tens of thousands of documents that have been turned over to congressional investigators and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s team as they probe whether Trump associates coordinated with Russia as part of Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election.
There is no evidence in the documents showing that Deripaska received Manafort’s offer or that any briefings took place. And a spokeswoman for Deripaska dismissed the email exchanges as scheming by “consultants in the notorious ‘beltway bandit’ industry.”
Nonetheless, investigators believe that the exchanges, which reflect Manafort’s willingness to profit from his prominent role alongside Trump, created a potential opening for Russian interests at the highest level of a U.S. presidential campaign, according to people familiar with the probe. Those people, like others interviewed for this story, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss matters under investigation.
Several of the exchanges, which took place between Manafort and a Kiev-based employee of his international political consulting practice, focused on money that Manafort believed he was owed by Eastern European clients.
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A one time attorney of Mannafort, once owned stock in a company where the CEO is believed to have used Russian dressing on a salad.
All of the parties involved, as well as their close family members, are being held for questioning and involuntary polygraph, while their offices and residences are searched, their tax returns for the last seven years are audited. Some one will testify against Trump, or Mueller will start getting tough.
Isn’t this the same thing Podesta did on Hitlary’s behalf?
Oh wait it wasn’t Podesta. It was the Impeached Rapist whom accepted money for the access to his Evil Wife and approval of an Uranium sale that was to benefit a Terrorist State and sworn Enemy of the U.S.A.
And still nothing to impeach or indict Trump with...
I spoke with an Albanian today, could circumstances in the future, make that an illegal act?
So the man offered to talk with a Russian.... Are you kidding me? This is the intrigue? Dear Lord we are doomed.
WAPO = the Joe Izuzu of CIA media
No, you mean the abuse & illegal use of government agencies by the Obama Administration to interfere in the US Election.
If the Russians became such a threat it was sometime between the 2012 debate where Obama derided Romney’s Russia concerns by saying the 80’s called and wanted their foreign policy back and the 2016 election. What did the Democrats do to make the Russians become so threatening during their four-year term?
And the problem with this is?????
The rat’s media is in full overdrive to deflect the real story: Every federal agency was on-call to assist Obama to spy on, and prevent the election of DJT.
So what?
Sounds like thru leaks we are trying the case in the court of public opinion vs. having real evidence and trying the case in a court of law.
Keeps the narrative alive.
So Comey and Mueller are leaking.
Where the blank is Jeff Sessions?
And . . .?
Nothing compares to OBAMA telling the Russians that after his reelection he will have more flexibility. I didn’t think too badly of that because we do indeed have to get along with other countries and ease tensions. Since when is talking to foreign diplomats considered collusion? Stupid liberals are the greatest threat to our safety and security.
Substitute Hillary’s name for Manafort and this story goes right into the media and Mueller Investigation waste baskets.
It is the seriousness of charge which requires a thorough investigation with a special prosecutor! /S
If the Russians became such a threat it was sometime between the 2012 debate where Obama derided Romney’s Russia concerns by saying the 80’s called and wanted their foreign policy back and the 2016 election.Putin "came out" against homosexuality.
Briefings are not crimes.
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