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riversedge

(70,242 posts)
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 11:35 AM Aug 2016

Hillary Clinton demands to know which Donald Trump advisors beyond Manafort are on Kremlin’s payrol




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Hillary Clinton demands to know which Donald Trump advisors beyond Manafort are on Kremlin’s payroll



By Daily News Bin | August 14, 2016


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In the hours after the shocking revelation that Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort received millions of dollars in illegal cash bribes from a Ukrainian puppet of Vladimir Putin’s Russian government, Trump’s campaign has gone into full meltdown mode – and now Hillary Clinton is going for the kill.

Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook released a statement late Sunday night connecting the dots between Manafort’s payoffs, Russian hackers targeting Trump’s opponents, and Trump’s policy proposals that have been bizarrely beneficial to Russia at the expense of the United States. Mook went on to state that “Donald Trump has a responsibility to disclose campaign chair Paul Manafort’s and all other campaign employees’ and advisers’ ties to Russian or pro-Kremlin entities, including whether any of Trump’s employees or advisers are currently representing and or being paid by them.”.........................
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Hillary Clinton demands to know which Donald Trump advisors beyond Manafort are on Kremlin’s payrol (Original Post) riversedge Aug 2016 OP
:):) LOL! Atta Girl-Go Get Em'. MichiganVote Aug 2016 #1
Yes. I've been waiting for the media to address Hortensis Aug 2016 #21
GREAT! THAT's the way to deal with those bastards. COLGATE4 Aug 2016 #2
it is going to be interesting.... chillfactor Aug 2016 #3
Wouldn't you have thought that Trump's campaign would have vetted Manafort on something like this? bulloney Aug 2016 #4
Does not surprise me.... Wounded Bear Aug 2016 #31
The scary thing is.... Stuckinthebush Aug 2016 #35
I don't think Trump's campaign advisors know enough to even consider that No Vested Interest Aug 2016 #40
keeping fingers and toes crossed. riversedge Aug 2016 #5
Really nice. I think it might bite into a big chunk of the hardcore supporters... Curtland1015 Aug 2016 #6
"I don't know if a lot of even his looniest fans can wrap their consciences around this." Hayduke Bomgarte Aug 2016 #29
But will they hear this story? kimbutgar Aug 2016 #30
Not if they don't watch NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC lindysalsagal Aug 2016 #48
Doesn't matter - to them moonscape Aug 2016 #42
Oh, man! This should be good! Go get 'em Hillary!! AgadorSparticus Aug 2016 #7
Oh, hell yeah! NurseJackie Aug 2016 #8
Trump was totally unprepared Johnny2X2X Aug 2016 #9
Are you F'n kidding me about Ivanka and Putin's f'n GIRLFRIEND? Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #11
Ivanka's in Croatia with Wendi Deng Murdoch tammywammy Aug 2016 #12
People keep saying how we're supposed to feel sorry for Ivanka because she was probably abused Maru Kitteh Aug 2016 #33
Ivanka Boo Boo! nt tblue37 Aug 2016 #49
No kidding Johnny2X2X Aug 2016 #19
BULLSHIT Zoonart Aug 2016 #18
"incestuous" is first word that comes to mind greenman3610 Aug 2016 #32
Where's Palin when we need her? Ivanka "palling around" with Putin's squeeze! George II Aug 2016 #24
suggest this be investigated by the FBI and CIA!!!!!THis is because of a REAL Security threat NOT AN Bill USA Aug 2016 #10
I vote Ivanka Zoonart Aug 2016 #14
Don't you find the timing just a bit unusual? rsdsharp Aug 2016 #20
I suspect they jumped ship. Chemisse Aug 2016 #46
Usy and Goosey ArnoldLayne Aug 2016 #57
+ 1 red dog 1 Aug 2016 #36
Definitely! get the red out Aug 2016 #13
... napkinz Aug 2016 #15
Good! Great question! ananda Aug 2016 #16
That has a real whiff of "And when did you stop beating your wife ?" about it ! OnDoutside Aug 2016 #17
Check, maybe even checkmate in a couple moves. neeksgeek Aug 2016 #22
Not many pieces left in the puzzle... sofa king Aug 2016 #23
Very interesting! liberalmuse Aug 2016 #38
It would be very bad for Ukraine if Trump was elected. Chemisse Aug 2016 #47
Thanks - most interesting klook Aug 2016 #53
BWAHAHAHAHAAAA!!! nolabear Aug 2016 #25
Why do I delight . . . Gamecock Lefty Aug 2016 #26
Was Ivanka a PLANT? annabanana Aug 2016 #27
Perfect! liberal N proud Aug 2016 #28
The Manafort Candidate napkinz Aug 2016 #34
K&R red dog 1 Aug 2016 #37
Give em HELL Hillary!! workinclasszero Aug 2016 #39
This is a simple but almost brilliant way to attack Hav Aug 2016 #41
And with enough of a push they take over for you. They're turning on one another. nolabear Aug 2016 #43
more graphics ... napkinz Aug 2016 #44
K&R! napkinz Aug 2016 #45
K & R SunSeeker Aug 2016 #50
you should hAVE POSTED THE LAST PARAGRAPH trueblue2007 Aug 2016 #51
Yeah, I'd like to know at too. Glad she has asked! AllyCat Aug 2016 #52
obama should immediately cease trump security briefings. nt tomp Aug 2016 #54
A vote for trump is a vote for Putin. Lunabell Aug 2016 #55
Nice. tanyev Aug 2016 #56

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
21. Yes. I've been waiting for the media to address
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:38 PM
Aug 2016

this, and instead they've practically dropped the whole subject. So, atta girl!

chillfactor

(7,576 posts)
3. it is going to be interesting....
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 11:40 AM
Aug 2016

or maybe even devastating for the t-rump campaign in the next few days if more and more details come out about the slime ball manafort.

bulloney

(4,113 posts)
4. Wouldn't you have thought that Trump's campaign would have vetted Manafort on something like this?
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 11:50 AM
Aug 2016

Even a whiff of truth to this connection is devastating to their campaign.

Wounded Bear

(58,662 posts)
31. Does not surprise me....
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 01:23 PM
Aug 2016

Donald thinks he can bullshit his way through anything. He's the poster child of that old saying:

If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.

No Vested Interest

(5,167 posts)
40. I don't think Trump's campaign advisors know enough to even consider that
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 02:37 PM
Aug 2016

campaign representatives need that type of vetting.
They are rank amateurs, and it shows, now more than ever.

Curtland1015

(4,404 posts)
6. Really nice. I think it might bite into a big chunk of the hardcore supporters...
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 11:55 AM
Aug 2016

...that Trump has left.

I don't know if a lot of even his looniest fans can wrap their consciences around this.

Hayduke Bomgarte

(1,965 posts)
29. "I don't know if a lot of even his looniest fans can wrap their consciences around this."
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 01:01 PM
Aug 2016

Being loonies and hardcore drumpf supporters, what makes you imagine they possess consciences?

The question is mostly rhetorical.

moonscape

(4,673 posts)
42. Doesn't matter - to them
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 03:43 PM
Aug 2016

"anybody is better than Hillary" - and clearly they mean any body - even Putin's.

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
9. Trump was totally unprepared
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:01 PM
Aug 2016

Trump was totally unprepared to run for President. No one spent any time vetting candidates to work for him. On what planet did they think this would fly? They haven't a clue.

Wait until the media gets wind that Ivanka Trump was in Croatia spending time with Vladimir Putin's girlfriend this weekend.

Trump is just not a details person and he has no one around him who is one.

Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)
11. Are you F'n kidding me about Ivanka and Putin's f'n GIRLFRIEND?
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:08 PM
Aug 2016

You have a link for that or are you just telling a funny? omg. I believe just about anything at this point but seriously. omg.

Maru Kitteh

(28,340 posts)
33. People keep saying how we're supposed to feel sorry for Ivanka because she was probably abused
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 01:32 PM
Aug 2016

and she comes off as being so nice and she's friends with Chelsea.

Well, number one, they formed that friendship as youngsters. I still have a few friends from that time in my life I would never pick now; but we have that shared time and shared experience that bonded us long ago, and so the friendship survives the wide diversion of opinion we hold now.

Second, Ivanka is a grown ass woman who has treated her employees with the same crass disregard that her daddy does. She obviously isn't stupid, so it's a rather easy assumption to say that on some level, she understands how grotesque the prospect of her father as President of the United States really is. If she had any integrity, she would at the very least, politely decline to speak much about her father's campaign because of course she loves him but as a businesswoman she tries to stay away from politics, etc etc blah blah blah.

I do NOT feel sorry for little miss Trumps-a-lot.

Zoonart

(11,869 posts)
18. BULLSHIT
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:22 PM
Aug 2016

Unprepared? HE knows exactly who Manafort is and who he is tied up with. PS- Putin's girlfriend is Rupert Murdoch's ex wife and she hooked Ivanka up with her husband!

Bill USA

(6,436 posts)
10. suggest this be investigated by the FBI and CIA!!!!!THis is because of a REAL Security threat NOT AN
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:02 PM
Aug 2016


IMAGINARY ONE!!!

Zoonart

(11,869 posts)
14. I vote Ivanka
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:19 PM
Aug 2016

Ivanka Trump left her infant (4 mos.) to go on vacation? WTFingF?
She is Trump's top advisor? The only on he listens to? Is this an emergency meeting with Putin himself? or just a Russian agent? REALLY?
You can't make this up.

rsdsharp

(9,186 posts)
20. Don't you find the timing just a bit unusual?
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:36 PM
Aug 2016

Trumps "top advisors" are Ivanka and the boys, Usy and Goosey. Ivamka is in Croatia and the boys are off hunting when the shit hit the fan about Manafort.

I wonder if they knew something was about to go down, and didn't want to be around to get splattered.

Chemisse

(30,813 posts)
46. I suspect they jumped ship.
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 11:14 PM
Aug 2016

Daddy's not getting any saner and they may not want to be around when it all goes to hell.

sofa king

(10,857 posts)
23. Not many pieces left in the puzzle...
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:39 PM
Aug 2016

If Carter Page shows up on those payrolls, and if he was paid for the speeches he delivered in Russia, just before he zipped back to change the Republican Party platform in favor of the Russians, it's all over.

https://ballotpedia.org/Carter_Page

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-advisers-public-comments-ties-to-moscow-stir-unease-in-both-parties/2016/08/05/2e8722fa-5815-11e6-9aee-8075993d73a2_story.html

It would make Trump a pawn of the Russians and, in concert with his own public entreaties to the Russians to commit espionage for him, a willing pawn who is collaborating with them.

Note also the mechanism by which this information came to the New York Times: the Ukranian version of the FBI, who is working with our own FBI, dropped this. In other words, Ukranian law enforcement is acting as a cut-out so that the FBI can make this information public, now, before it can become an existential crisis for the United States.

klook

(12,155 posts)
53. Thanks - most interesting
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 04:37 AM
Aug 2016

I'm going to have to do some more reading about this guy. The Gazprom connection seems particularly significant.

liberal N proud

(60,335 posts)
28. Perfect!
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 12:47 PM
Aug 2016

They spend all their time calling her crooked and corrupt when it is in fact them that is caught with their hands in the cookie jar. The Kremlin Cookie Jar no less.

Hav

(5,969 posts)
41. This is a simple but almost brilliant way to attack
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 03:03 PM
Aug 2016

Bring attention to the issue, clobber the campaign manager and try to hang that issue around everybody else in the campaign.
We all know the hyper-partisan Daily News Bin from the primaries. But these few paragraphs are brutal. I like these attacks without restraint against these scumbags.

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
43. And with enough of a push they take over for you. They're turning on one another.
Mon Aug 15, 2016, 03:47 PM
Aug 2016

Nothing like a circular firing squad to make your day.

trueblue2007

(17,223 posts)
51. you should hAVE POSTED THE LAST PARAGRAPH
Tue Aug 16, 2016, 01:09 AM
Aug 2016

The stunning Trump-Manafort-Putin bribery scandal comes the night before Donald Trump was expected to give a major foreign policy speech. Now he’ll face questions as to whether his foreign policy platform is being bought and paid for by Vladimir Putin. Meanwhile various Trump advisors have begun publicly fighting with each other on Twitter as his campaign unravels by the hour.

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