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***BREAKING*** FBI RAIDED MANAFORT'S HOME 2 WEEKS AGO! CNN report (Original Post) MoonRiver Aug 2017 OP
Raided implies they had to get in to get some shit before he destroyed evidence uponit7771 Aug 2017 #1
They also had to get a warrant. MoonRiver Aug 2017 #5
Exactly. Raiding private property takes real evidence. lindysalsagal Aug 2017 #42
Same day of the transgender ban announcement and lashing out at Sessions, McCabe and Comey. WhiskeyGrinder Aug 2017 #2
Was wondering what else was going on stevil Aug 2017 #11
I'm glad someone is tracking the timeline. Hugin Aug 2017 #13
Interesting BainsBane Aug 2017 #25
So, trying to distract from this news NewJeffCT Aug 2017 #30
Huffington has it up now too womanofthehills Aug 2017 #3
Great, the good news spreads fast! MoonRiver Aug 2017 #6
Go Mueller! workinclasszero Aug 2017 #4
republican TreasonWeasels deserve justice Achilleaze Aug 2017 #7
Coincidentally, also on 7/26 PunkinPi Aug 2017 #8
He is doing this media manlipulation distraction game... FarPoint Aug 2017 #12
Makes you wonder... sheshe2 Aug 2017 #14
I imagine they will run raids close together... FarPoint Aug 2017 #16
yep. nt PunkinPi Aug 2017 #18
plus don the con is a media whore. bdamomma Aug 2017 #39
What a complete ass! He sunk to a new low by using that to bury the raid. C Moon Aug 2017 #29
Off to the greatest page malaise Aug 2017 #9
NICE!!! Dem_4_Life Aug 2017 #10
Paulie Walnuts feels the heat. Sneederbunk Aug 2017 #15
doesn't he have 20 or 30 'homes' all over the world. Sunlei Aug 2017 #17
Odd that the article indicates the Who, How, Why, When, but not the Where. Marcuse Aug 2017 #27
couple months ago the Feds took out several mafia? from trumps tower? who the fuck knows bribes Sunlei Aug 2017 #32
Manafort probably was aware of potential outcomes and prepared Iliyah Aug 2017 #19
So maybe we will get President Pence before the Nuclear War. SaschaHM Aug 2017 #20
Unless zealot Pence sees it as a way to fulfill GreenPartyVoter Aug 2017 #40
Oh yeah! mcar Aug 2017 #21
Unless these people are really really stupid marlakay Aug 2017 #22
What I wonder is how this went 2 wks before a *peep* about it!1 UTUSN Aug 2017 #23
Good question. Me, too. n/t pnwmom Aug 2017 #26
Kick. dalton99a Aug 2017 #24
Christopher Wray was sworn in Aug 2nd as new FBI director Motley13 Aug 2017 #28
Took a look at FR to see if they were discussing this... Xolodno Aug 2017 #31
I would like to know the timeline when Trump's lawyers contacted Mueller... kentuck Aug 2017 #33
So what? Nothing ever happens to these creeps. LisaM Aug 2017 #34
and the day Trump piled public pressure on Manafort..... sunonmars Aug 2017 #35
A lot has happened in the last two weeks... kentuck Aug 2017 #36
and on cue National Enquirer runs attack piece on Manafort calling him sick pervert. sunonmars Aug 2017 #37
where did this story start ?....... is it even true ? Kathy M Aug 2017 #38
Washington Post broke story today, then CNN confirmed it- nt wishstar Aug 2017 #41

womanofthehills

(8,718 posts)
3. Huffington has it up now too
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:32 AM
Aug 2017
The home of Paul Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, was raided by FBI agents in July, The Washington Post reports.

Manafort had no advance warning about the raid, which took place July 26. According to the Post, “documents and other materials” were seized.

Manafort is a key figure in the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

One day before the raid, Manafort met with Senate Intelligence Committee investigators to discuss a meeting between a Russian lawyer and members of Trump’s campaign team that took place during the 2016 presidential election. Jason Maloni, Manafort’s spokesman, said Manafort “answered their questions fully.”


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-manafort-fbi_us_598b1643e4b0449ed50714d6?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009

PunkinPi

(4,875 posts)
8. Coincidentally, also on 7/26
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:38 AM
Aug 2017

On July 26, same day as the raid on his campaign manager's home, Trump tweeted that he was banning transgendered people from the military. https://t.co/gIkH4Tv9w0




Distraction much?

FarPoint

(12,409 posts)
12. He is doing this media manlipulation distraction game...
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 10:46 AM
Aug 2017

Last edited Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:17 AM - Edit history (1)

He did this for 2 reasons ...first and always, he's an asshole and secondly, the media frenzy regarding the transgender banning would greatly distract from the Manafort raid... which it indeed did...Trump is a successful manlipulator and grifter in chief..

C Moon

(12,213 posts)
29. What a complete ass! He sunk to a new low by using that to bury the raid.
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:49 AM
Aug 2017

I was wondering why that came out of nowhere.

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
32. couple months ago the Feds took out several mafia? from trumps tower? who the fuck knows bribes
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:03 PM
Aug 2017

are paid in real estate or boxes of cash, foreign girls, race horses these days. or how many fake businesses, fake charities these wealthy people start to hide their bribes.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
19. Manafort probably was aware of potential outcomes and prepared
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:05 AM
Aug 2017

for it. Anywho, the investigation continues. Someone has turned and it could be more than one.

marlakay

(11,474 posts)
22. Unless these people are really really stupid
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:14 AM
Aug 2017

After all this started with Comey and Mueller wouldn't everyone involved destroy anything they could?

They can't change phone calls, texts, or emails...they can try to delete.

Paper trail though if I was involved I would have gathered it all up and had a big camp fire. Or at very least moved any folders to another state and hid well.

Bank statements though, follow the money, can't change that.

Xolodno

(6,395 posts)
31. Took a look at FR to see if they were discussing this...
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 11:58 AM
Aug 2017

Summation:

1. But her emails.....

2. Deep State, FBI is secret police, etc.

kentuck

(111,103 posts)
33. I would like to know the timeline when Trump's lawyers contacted Mueller...
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 12:28 PM
Aug 2017

We heard that news yesterday. Why did he feel the need to talk to Mueller? Was it a veiled threat?

LisaM

(27,813 posts)
34. So what? Nothing ever happens to these creeps.
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 01:06 PM
Aug 2017

None of the Bush Crime Family is in jail, Reagan is still revered, Comey still swayed the election and broke my heart. Does it matter? I feel so discouraged.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
35. and the day Trump piled public pressure on Manafort.....
Wed Aug 9, 2017, 01:19 PM
Aug 2017

Mueller got the goods before Manafort could destroy it, he suspected he had not turned over the fullrecords.

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