Manafort held secret talks with Assange in Ecuadorian embassy

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

Source: The Guardian UK

Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort held secret talks with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and visited around the time he joined Trump’s campaign, the Guardian has been told.

Sources have said Manafort went to see Assange in 2013, 2015 and in spring 2016 – during the period when he was made a key figure in Trump’s push for the White House.

It is unclear why Manafort wanted to see Assange and what was discussed. But the last meeting is likely to come under scrutiny and could interest Robert Mueller, the special prosecutor who is investigating alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

A well-placed source has told the Guardian that Manafort went to see Assange around March 2016. Months later WikiLeaksreleased a stash of Democratic emails stolen by Russian intelligence officers.



Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy

[George II]

1. Hah! You posted this as I was typing up my post. Good catch, this is very interesting. Perhaps...

...Manafort was asked about these visits and he denied them?

His passport would have stamps of the dates that he went to London, and no doubt the embassy has accurate logs of visitors.

[riversedge]

8. ...........Sources in Ecuador, however, say Manafort was not logged.

I am always hesitant of these 'sources say" pieces. Sometimes the piece turns out to be true and sometimes not. Anyway, wonder why they have record of Manafort coming to the embassy. sneaky.


..............Manafort’s 2016 visit to Assange lasted about 40 minutes, one source said, adding that the American was casually dressed when he exited the embassy, wearing sandy-coloured chinos, a cardigan and a light-coloured shirt.

Visitors normally register with embassy security guards and show their passports. Sources in Ecuador, however, say Manafort was not logged.

Embassy staff were aware only later of the potential significance of Manafort’s visit and his political role with Trump, it is understood.

The revelation could shed new light on the sequence of events in the run-up to summer 2016, when WikiLeaks published tens of thousands of emails hacked by the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence agency. Hillary Clinton has said the hack contributed to her defeat......................

[Botany]

2. Please remember Manafort picked Pence to be V.P.

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412

[H2O Man]

9. Extremely important.

[Cosmocat]

13. YEP

nm

[Mrs. Overall]

3. K & R

This will end up being very pertinent to the special counsel's case.

[RDANGELO]

4. No evidence of Collusion? - Here it is.

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It's a good bet that Mueller knows about this. I can imagine Manefort sitting in front of his investigators and being asked, "now tell us about those visits you made to Assange". Manefort says, "I never visited Assange". Then they show him the pictures of him entering the embassy.

[Jarqui]

5. Can't wait for Alan Dershowitz's rendition of Monty Python's Black Knight

responding to this news like it is nothing

[NCjack]

11. Waiting to see if Alen D'witz also visited the Ecuadorian embassy

and then defends himself by claiming to have a client there.

[Botany]

6. And guess who also visited Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy?

A separate internal document written by Ecuador’s Senain intelligence agency and seen
by the Guardian lists “Paul Manaford [sic]” as one of several well-known guests. It also
mentions “Russians”.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/nov/27/manafort-held-secret-talks-with-assange-in-ecuadorian-embassy

[UpInArms]

7. Dirty deeds done by dirty rotten scoundrels

And Manafort was the one who changed the Republican platform regarding Russian intervention into Ukraine

[neohippie]

10. Things that make you go hmmm

So Manafort was meeting with Wikileaks in March, isn't that when the GRU started hacking? March 15th

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/13/timeline-how-russian-agents-allegedly-hacked-the-dnc-and-clintons-campaign/?utm_term=.d5a440e26893

March 6, 2016. George Papadopoulos is named a foreign-policy adviser by the campaign.

March 15, 2016. The Russian hackers allegedly begin trying to identify vulnerabilities in the network of the Democratic National Committee.

March 19, 2016. Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta and others are sent “spear-phishing” emails meant to steal the login credentials for their email accounts.

March 21, 2016. Hackers allegedly gain access to Podesta’s account and steal over 50,000 emails.

March 25-28, 2016. Hackers allegedly target a number of additional campaign staffers with spear-phishing emails. That effort apparently included researching staff on social media.

March 28, 2016. Paul Manafort is hired by the Trump campaign to focus on delegates at the Republican convention. His background includes work for a Russian oligarch close to Putin named Oleg Deripaska.

[BlueInRedHell]

12. ...and who knows how many times Nigel Farage met with Assange (or when it started)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jan/19/trump-russia-inquiry-is-told-nigel-farage-may-have-given-julian-assange-data

"Nigel Farage may have given Julian Assange a thumb drive of data and was possibly a more frequent visitor than was publicly known to the Ecuadorian embassy where the WikiLeaks founder lives, according to testimony given to US congressional inquiry into the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to the Kremlin"

[BumRushDaShow]

17. Then you can go with some of the stuff that happened after that

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/31/politics/trump-tower-meeting-timeline/index.html

And some more pieces will fall into place per this once it gets underway - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/27/russia-probe-house-democrats-aim-unmask-trump-jr-s-blocked-call/2119341002/

[UCmeNdc]

14. Who doubts that Manafort was not an agent for a Russian intelligence agency?

This is the very definition of a spy ring. How can the CIA, FBI, or NSA ignore these circumstances. What gives?

[Still In Wisconsin]

15. Boy, that sounds a lot like... dare I say it...COLLUSION?

Collusion with a hostile foreign power, to be specific.

[neohippie]

19. Don't forget Cambridge Analytica

CA was also guilty of not only violating the Brexit campaign contributions limits with their in kind contributions to that effort, but using foreign workers to shape US campaign policy that is also illegal

[dlk]

16. Eventually, All of Manafort's Lies Will See the Light of Day

It's only a matter of time.

[ffr]

18. Sounds like he needs to be locked up.

LOCK HIM UP!

[ffr]

20. Anybody remember where Mike Pence was a few months ago? Ecuador. No kidding.

Mike Pence raises Julian Assange case with Ecuadorean president, White House confirms - June 29, 2018


Vice President Mike Pence discussed the situation surrounding WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange during a meeting Thursday with Ecuadorean President Lenín Moreno in Quito, a White House official said afterwards — heeding calls from Democrats wary of Mr. Assange staying shielded more than six years since seeking refuge inside Ecuador’s London embassy.

“The vice president raised the issue of Mr. Assange. It was a constructive conversation. They agreed to remain in close coordination on potential next steps going forward,” a White House official said in a statement issued following Thursday’s meeting with Mr. Moreno, The Washington Examiner first reported.

Ten senators, all Democrats, wrote Mr. Pence a day earlier urging him to press Mr. Moreno about the WikiLeaks publisher during his trip abroad Thursday. The Washington Times RW Rag

[Yosemito]

21. Kick

[LudwigPastorius]

22. It's all coming together.

The Vise of Justice is tightening on Donny Moscow's tiny orange nuts.

[MadDAsHell]

23. Along with the failure to act on Russia before 2017, the previous worship of Assange...

will go down as our biggest mistakes that led to Trump. Assange was a God on DU for several years, and that was a huge oversight.

[Scurrilous]

24. K&R

[Julian Englis]

25. How much of this figured into what Manafort is lying about?

Is this some of what Mueller’s trying to get Manafort to testify about?

This may be a way to put pressure on Manafort by revealing the extent of some of his involvement.