Here is the eighty-eighth article in our Republicans on Parade series, featuring individuals who personify what the Republican Party has become. Today’s honoree is Republican Campaign Manager and Seditionist, Paul Manafort. He so honored for his intent to hand US National Security to Vladimir Putin (R-RU).
The Trump campaign was on the defensive on Monday after a New York Times report revealed that its chairman, Paul Manafort, was designated to receive $12.7 million in undisclosed and potentially illegal cash payments from a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine.
The revelation preceded a high-profile national security speech by Donald J. Trump on Monday afternoon in Ohio, and threatened to derail the Republican presidential nominee’s latest effort to avoid distractions and stick to policy as he tried to stop his poll numbers from sliding.
In a statement, Mr. Manafort denied wrongdoing and said The Times was ignoring the facts to fulfill a political agenda against Mr. Trump. He denied ever receiving an “off-the-books cash payment” or having worked for the Ukrainian or Russian governments.
“The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly and nonsensical,” Mr. Manafort said. He said that any payments he received were for a broader political campaign team that included local and international staff, polling and research.
The secret ledgers kept by a pro-Russian political group in Ukraine, the Party of Regions, contain 22 separate references of cash disbursements designated for Mr. Manafort between 2007 and 2012. The disbursements amount to $12.7 million, according to anticorruption officials there… [emphasis added]
From <NY Times>
It’s possible that Manafart never actually received the money, considering the level od corruption of his political associates, then and now. However if you believe that he was not engaged in the practices for which he was to receive that money, you will probably also believe that Rump Dump Trump was just kidding, when he suggested that he would not oppose his buddy Putin’s (R-RU) takeover of the Crimea, the Ukraine, and the Baltic states.
Rachel Maddow covered Trump and Manafart in two segments:
Trump would be a national security disaster. Stinky Manafart is clearly a Republican.
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WOW!! Sounds like something out of a James Bond movie.
Of course, he'll deny it, I sure hope this goes full blown throttle. Dirty men, dirty money.
Great post, passing this on.
Thanks, Tom.
The requirement to register as an agent of a foreign national is apparently pretty comprehensive, and it may well be possible to fall afoul of it without realizing one has done so – none of which is any excuse for Manafart. If he didn't realize before, he does now, and he needs to by God register now.
Though this is fiction, and also set many years ago (prior to WWII), the author is known to have been one who did his homework. He uses the requirement as comic relief, but it was and is a real one:
Rex Stout
Over My Dead Body
You gotta admit Herr Drumpf knows how to pick "the best".
Hell, Trump and Manafort go together like hand in glove … very tiny hands in a very tiny gloves.
Those are rather large gloves for Trump aren't they!?
Well, I wouldn't know … nor would I WANT to know!
That probably depends on whose hand is holding them. If it's a five-year-old …
But regardless, they are in WAY too good taste for Drumpf. Hand crafted and including traditional folk designs? (Hubby kids me about knitting with toothpicks. These look like they were knitted with dressmaking pins.) He would never stand for it.
Please! No more hand jobs!
Manafort, or anyone so closely associated with Rumpy, and now, it appears, Roger Ailes too, can be assumed, rather bloody safely, to be an ass!
Maddow rocks! See her book, "Drift," about U.S. Militarism.
I wonder how long it will take the Trumpians to rise up and comment on Biden's Scranton speech — specifically the part where he says he does not think Trump was kidding about asking Russia to hack the DNC and Clinton's emails — in hopes of distracting everybody from the Manafart debacle? I am a believer in 'where there's smoke, there's usually some fire' and believe that there is a lot more going on between Trump and Russia than we know about. How did US politics become so screwed up?
1 Power
2 Money
3 Citizens United
Feel free to add to the list.
Where is Drumpf, his people getting these bottom-feeders to staff his campaign, cabinet positions from?
Crooks, Thieves & Liars Inc.?
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Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe?
Good call for the Parade, TomCat.
Manafort is defending himself first by calling the 22 references found in the Party of Regions' ledger of cash disbursements to his name "unfounded, silly and nonsensical", and then that " any payments he received were for a broader political campaign team that included local and international staff, polling and research." So these "unfounded and nonsensical" cash payments to him were made but weren't for his personal use. Right, that makes it all OK then!
Drumpf really knows how to pick them, doesn't he. Manafort is just as stupid as Drumpf is and doesn't realize that by saying any payments were for a broader political campaign team, albeit from 2007 to 2012 (who's campaign was that?), he leaving the door wide open for Democrats to suggest that the pro-Russian Party of Regions aka Putin, is financing Drumpf's campaign directly, illegally and right now. And stupid Drumpf shooting his mouth off about his yuge admiration for great friend Putin and his land grabs has left any remaining doors and windows wide open.
It's good to see that quit a bit of the media is sick of being vilified by Drumpf and leave the pathetic attempts of the Drumpf team, to turn this around and point the finger at Hillary, for what they are and keep their focus on Manafort, and Drumpf in his wake. I hope they don't let up because there's almost three months left to go and voters memories are terribly short.
You are so right about voters having short memories, that is a good explanation of why McConnell is sitll a senator from Ky.
I watched RAchel last night, and if one person who watched that can find one iota of truth in what Manafort is saying, I want to meet him or her.
Trump bragged to loudly and too long about his relationship with Putin for there to be no involvement.
Thanks, hugs, and amen to all!
Sorry, this is where that ought to go:
Manafort, or anyone so closely associated with Rumpy, and now, it appears, Roger Ailes too, can be assumed, rather bloody safely, to be an ass!
Maddow rocks! See her book, "Drift," about U.S. Militarism.