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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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More leaks from Mueller’s “secret” investigation?
Is this one of the emails from Hillary’s illegal server?
“according to people familiar with the probe.”
Fake news.
Nothing happened, but the idea that it *could* have means a thorough investigation must be conducted.
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IMMMMPPPPEEEEAAACCCCHHHHH!!!!
4 authors? If it’s the Washington Post, that usually means it’s filled with even more BS than usual.
And it is what; illegal to talk to Russians?
Sure, but tell me what law was broken?
Besides the wiretapping of Trumps campaign?
here is filing complaint with the oig of the DOJ
i will redo and amend based on this new information feel free to copy and post your own complaint.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B98gBgsg4VB3YjB3c3Z2dFFqMEE
There’s no way this little blurb required four authors, so it’s serving some other purpose. They do it fairly frequently of late. I’ve begun to suspect that they play the multi-author shell game in order to make connecting the dots as far as individual relationships more difficult, as well as to dissuade libel suits due to complicating and greatly adding to the expense of doing so.
Yep. This is it. He's never going to get the nomination now.
I'm LMAO - this is a particularly desperate attempt to spin the news that Trump was right about being wiretapped. So Manafort offered to brief somebody on whatever secrets the campaign held and wasn't even answered, and apparently we're supposed to be reeling in shock. I'm reeling, all right - if I laugh much harder I'm gonna pee my pants.
Manafort,"Trump's got this!"
Russian contact,"Da!"
Rice and other lawbreakers in white house basement with ear phones,"Did you hear that? Bwahahahaha, trump's gonna win!, Bwahahahaha!"
Fake news.
I certainly hope not. One of the last students I trained before finishing my post doc was a Russian guy. And (horror of horrors) I spent time with him and other Russians on a social basis!
These leftists are such hypocrites. It never worried them in the slightest when Democrat politicians had, for example, spent time in the Soviet Union at a time when Americans simply could not visit the USSR. [That was Bill Clinton.] And they never cared about Soviet atrocities, either. Yet, one loser candidate tries to deflect attention away from her profiting personally from uranium sales to Russia by making a baseless claim that Trump somehow (no details) "colluded" with Russia, and suddenly the left is beside itself with consternation.
How much more two-faced can they possibly become?
ping
‘And it is what; illegal to talk to Russians?’
Exactly! So effing what!
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