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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNever forget Manafort picked Pence to be V.P.
Newsweek: MIKE PENCE COULD BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT AND HE WAS HANDPICKED BY PAUL MANAFORT
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412
This "thing" is bigger than we can really get our brains around.
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Never forget Manafort picked Pence to be V.P. (Original Post)
Botany
Feb 2019
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Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)1. Yes he did, b!! And, according to this article, rump's old pal Tom Barrack handpicked Manafort:
Oct. 2017:
A roommate at Barracks Beirut apartment introduced him to Manafort, who represented a firm doing business with a Saudi construction company. They became close friends and, four decades later, Barrack persuaded Trump to hire Manafort for his presidential campaign.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2017/10/31/what-did-thomas-barrack-know-and-when-did-he-know-it/
I havent seen this anywhere else...rump and manafort are old pals, I believe, so maybe they just bumped into each other and had a chat and maybe rump said hey, be my mgr?...Id sure like to know, though, because I am some kind of NOSY!!
Also, if not for Barrack, Rick Gates wouldnt be as useful as hes been, since Barrack kept him around looooong after manafort was gone, hahahahaaahahaa!!
Hekate
(90,714 posts)2. I've had my fingers crossed about Pence/Mueller from the get-go...
Mueller's smart. I'm sure there's a fat file on Pence, all cross-referenced.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)3. Could mean very little or could mean a whole lot.
Manafort was campaign manager at the time where Vice Presidential nominees are usually picked, and usually the campaign manager is a key part of that process.
Fuzzpope
(602 posts)4. I'm wondering..
If Barrack is closer to the center of this thing than Trump is.
I'm wondering if Barrack didn't use Trump in a clandestine agenda way, way murkier and deeply involved than anything Trump could engineer on his own.
Rene
(1,183 posts)5. I forget....what was Pence's brothers involvement?
MelissaB
(16,420 posts)6. And wasn't it Tom Barrack who wanted Manafort on the team?