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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 14, 2018 at 9:35 pm
Manafort’s guilty plea exposes hardball tactics he used to thrive in Washington swamp
"Drain the swamp" my shiny metal ass.
Quote:Before he was Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort embraced extreme tactics in his lobbying efforts: He schemed “to plant some stink” and spread stories that a jailed Ukrainian politician was a murderer.
He enlisted a foreign politician who was secretly on his payroll to deliver a message to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
And he gleefully fueled allegations that an Obama Cabinet member who had spoken out against his Ukrainian client was an anti-Semite, according to court papers.
With his guilty plea Friday, Manafort admitted the lengths to which he went to manipulate the American political system and the media for massive profit, exposing how he thrived in the Washington swamp that Trump railed against during his campaign.
The president has dismissed the allegations against his former campaign chairman as run-of-the-mill lobbying — and has even contemplated pardoning him. But new details revealed Friday show how far beyond the law Manafort went in pursuit of his goals.
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Trump has downplayed Manafort’s wrongdoing, writing in an August tweet that he felt “very badly” for his former campaign chairman. “What he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in Washington probably does,” the president told Fox News the following day.
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Manafort, 69, a political operative who had worked for Republican presidential candidates such as Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, helped pioneer the Washington lobbying industry when he founded a firm in the 1980s that specialized in spiffing up the reputations of some of the world’s most controversial leaders, including Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
He once testified to Congress that while the technical term for his work was “lobbying . . . I will admit that, in a narrow sense, some people might term it ‘influence peddling.’ ”
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 14, 2018 at 9:44 pm
(September 14, 2018 at 8:06 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Section 8 of the agreement deals with "Cooperation."
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/14/17861014/m...estigation
I don't see anything that excludes the WLB or his administration or campaign.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/14/politics/...index.html
Quote:Paul Manafort joins the 'flippers,' making Trump's week way, way worse
Maybe he'll kill himself?
Trump has one redeeming quality - he is too much of a coward to ever kill himself. So we can rely upon him to writhe on the spit as he roasts to entertain us for quite some time.
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 14, 2018 at 10:10 pm
(September 14, 2018 at 9:35 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Manafort’s guilty plea exposes hardball tactics he used to thrive in Washington swamp
"Drain the swamp" my shiny metal ass.
Quote:Before he was Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort embraced extreme tactics in his lobbying efforts: He schemed “to plant some stink” and spread stories that a jailed Ukrainian politician was a murderer.
He enlisted a foreign politician who was secretly on his payroll to deliver a message to President Barack Obama in the Oval Office.
And he gleefully fueled allegations that an Obama Cabinet member who had spoken out against his Ukrainian client was an anti-Semite, according to court papers.
With his guilty plea Friday, Manafort admitted the lengths to which he went to manipulate the American political system and the media for massive profit, exposing how he thrived in the Washington swamp that Trump railed against during his campaign.
The president has dismissed the allegations against his former campaign chairman as run-of-the-mill lobbying — and has even contemplated pardoning him. But new details revealed Friday show how far beyond the law Manafort went in pursuit of his goals.
. . . . . . . . . .
Trump has downplayed Manafort’s wrongdoing, writing in an August tweet that he felt “very badly” for his former campaign chairman. “What he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in Washington probably does,” the president told Fox News the following day.
. . . . . . . . . .
Manafort, 69, a political operative who had worked for Republican presidential candidates such as Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, helped pioneer the Washington lobbying industry when he founded a firm in the 1980s that specialized in spiffing up the reputations of some of the world’s most controversial leaders, including Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos.
He once testified to Congress that while the technical term for his work was “lobbying . . . I will admit that, in a narrow sense, some people might term it ‘influence peddling.’ ”
Now to wait for AM and all the rest of the Orange turd fuhrer supporters to come out and defend their precious leader against the truth.
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 14, 2018 at 11:08 pm
He's too much of a narcissist to kill himself. The fucker really thinks the world can't exist without him.
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 15, 2018 at 12:03 am
I wonder if Mueller will get Trump to flip and help us take down Putin? Oh, wait.
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 15, 2018 at 8:34 am
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(September 15, 2018 at 12:03 am)Whateverist Wrote: I wonder if Mueller will get Trump to flip and help us take down Putin? Oh, wait.
Putin will probably kill trump first with polonium or novichok.
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 15, 2018 at 10:26 am
(September 14, 2018 at 10:10 pm)Joods Wrote: (September 14, 2018 at 9:35 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote: Manafort’s guilty plea exposes hardball tactics he used to thrive in Washington swamp
"Drain the swamp" my shiny metal ass.
Now to wait for AM and all the rest of the Orange turd fuhrer supporters to come out and defend their precious leader against the truth.
As i said their excuse will be
Quote:But Min now that he's flipped he's a shady guy with no credibility while before he was a innocent victim of a Liberal conspiracy
Or
Quote:It still doesn't link directly to Trump ....Dur
The chant they will be spewing right up until Darth Cheeto is dragged off in irons
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 15, 2018 at 10:48 am
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Keep in mind the real job won’t be done until Limbaugh, hannity, drudger, Jones, Falwell, graham, Bannon, Miller, nunes, Mcconnell, Paul, Devos, Zinke, and Pruitt are gone for good.
Trump should be in jail only because he needs to be butt fucked every minute of his remaining natural life. Those people need to be in jail because they need to be kept off the streets for safety of the public.
The real enemy isn’t trump. It is what put him in the whitehouse.
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 15, 2018 at 10:54 am
Quote:He once testified to Congress that while the technical term for his work was “lobbying . . . I will admit that, in a narrow sense, some people might term it ‘influence peddling.’ ”
And, in a broader sense, some people might term it 'subverting democracy'.
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RE: The Orange Turd Now Shitting Bricks....
September 15, 2018 at 10:57 am
In a boarder sense, most lobbiests in any democracy relies on subverting democracy for their own career prospects.
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