Lewandowski Says FBI Should Have Warned Trump Camp About Manafort

[DonViejo]

By MATT SHUHAM Published OCTOBER 30, 2017 11:25 AM

Former Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski blamed the FBI on Monday for not warning the Trump campaign about one-time campaign chairman Paul Manafort. A 12-count indictment against Manafort was unsealed Monday.

“If the public reports are true, and there was a time where Paul Manafort was under a FISA warrant before coming to the Trump campaign, why is it the FBI never reached out to me as the campaign manager, never reached out to Donald Trump, and said: ‘Look, you might want to pause for a second and take a look before you bring this guy on board as a volunteer to hunt delegates to you,’” Lewandowski told Fox Business Network’s Charles Payne.

CNN first reported in September that investigators wiretapped Manafort before and after the campaign, citing unnamed sources.

Another former Trump campaign official, Rick Gates, was also indicted on Friday, according to unsealed records released Monday. The felony charges against Gates and Manafort include money laundering and violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

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[Madam45for2923]

1. Why? So he could fire the messenger? Nice try.

[Madam45for2923]

2. Besides Donald knew Manafort since the 1980's. What b*llshit.

[unblock]

3. "we prefer to hire crooks the fbi doesn't already know about!"

[librechik]

4. Trump has known Manafort 40 years. What is that warning exactly?

[Freethinker65]

5. Poor Corey. The FBI must have stuff on you too

[LakeVermilion]

6. To me it appears to be a sting operation...

Lewandowski is in it too. This is what its like when the Feds set up a sting. Why does Trump need a warning when he was probably suspected of money laundering long before he was a candidate?

Jail Trumps! Jail Trumps! Toss the key...

[tallahasseedem]

7. Was that before or after he assaulted

a woman?

[gratuitous]

8. Ah, the party of personal responsibility strikes again!

Shorter Lewandowski (who should be sure his lawyer's retainer is fully paid): "We didn't vet our hires very well, but that's the FBI's fault!"

And if the FBI had warned the Trump campaign about Manafort? Trump would have hared off to the press to bitch about how the feds were trying to meddle in his campaign, and hired Manafort anyway. Because that would show those FBI busybodies, and his supporters would love how he made someone grrrr mad again.

[Renew Deal]

9. How do we know they didn't? They were warned about Flynn

They didn't care about that, so why care about Manafort?

[SharonClark]

10. And who would the FBI warn about Lewandowski? or Trump?

[Clarity2]

11. Yep

look how it ended up for Sally Yates. And ditto, he knew Manafort - in fact Manafort lived in Trump Tower.

[AJT]

12. 45 has known Manafort for 40 years.....45 should have warned the FBI about Manafort.

[asiliveandbreathe]

16. Perfect - purrfect...me and penny agree...eom

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[padah513]

13. Trump's team hired him

Why wasn't he vetted by them? Same with Flynn? Probably the same with you.

[asiliveandbreathe]

14. Too bad corey...thank goodness we do have people in the FBI with

integrity....thus, NO, NADA, reach out to the WH - who could very well be involved...that's not how it works....dipshit!!!

[haele]

15. And that would have changed things how?

The Trump camp has shown themselves to be so arrogantly stupid as to not understand that maybe Russian Mobsters and those who deal with them or act as representatives for them may already on the FBI's radar, are certainly on the NSA's radar, and may have FISA warrants out against them.
No matter how many New Yawk City FBI agents may be tacitly colluding with mobsters because they're authoritarians who feel they're unappreciated since Gouliani left for greener pastures, this level of activity can't just be "fixed" or swept under the rug.
Too may institutions are being affected. Drumpf and his merry band of criminally stupid "businessmen" aren't just keeping things in their comfortably corrupt neighborhoods anymore.
When one is "out front" on the national stage, the whole power structure shifts.

Haele

[Princess Turandot]

17. So they could get blown off, like the way Sally Yates was when she told them...

that Flynn was at risk of being compromised by Russia?

[Vinca]

18. Hmmm. Imagine. Sally Yates reached out to President Trump about Flynn. How'd that go?

Barack Obama spoke to him about Flynn before the inauguration. But I bet they'd pay close attention to warnings about a campaign worker.

[TeamPooka]

19. People warned Trump and Team about Flynn and they ignored all of them so stfu Corey.

[onenote]

21. Because it's not their fucking job.

Does Corey demonstrate that he's a moron every time he opens his mouth or just 9 out of 10 times?