Manafort worked with Russian intel-connected individual as late as Nov. 2017, special prosecutors allege

By artappraiser on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 11:02pm |

By Trish Turner and Jack Date @ ABCNews.com, Dec. 4, 9:47 pm

[....] Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is rejecting Paul Manafort’s request to modify his terms of his confinement, because, in an explosive allegation, it says “as late as November 30, 2017, Manafort and a colleague were ghostwriting an editorial in English regarding his political work for Ukraine.”

In a court filing, Mueller’s team says that “Manafort worked on the draft with a long-time Russian colleague of Manafort’s, who is currently based in Russia and assessed to have ties to a Russian intelligence service.” [....]

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/paul-manafort-worked-russian-intel-connected-individual-special/story?id=51573409

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CONFIRMED: The Manafort associate who Mueller alleges has Russian intelligence ties is KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK, a Red Army veteran who was known in Moscow "as the guy from the GRU." https://t.co/udR9h7LEXp
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) December 5, 2017

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 11:05pm

Corey Lewandowski claims in his forthcoming book that Steve Bannon argued against firing Paul Manafort after exposes re: off-books Ukrainian $$$.
INCORRECT, per my sources, who said Bannon told Trump that Manafort "has to go.” https://t.co/wD5XpcEqQS
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) December 4, 2017

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 11:07pm

So take this with a dose of salt: here is

‘I’ve Got a Crook Running My Campaign’ Donald Trump, Paul Manafort and me.

By COREY LEWANDOWSKI @ Politico.com, Dec. 4

The following is an excerpt from Let Trump Be Trump by Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie, to be published on December 3 [....]

by artappraiser on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 11:14pm

READ: The Op-Ed Manafort Is Accused Of Ghostwriting With A Russian Asset

@ TPM Muckraker, Dec. 5

by artappraiser on Tue, 12/05/2017 - 8:04pm

would be nice to analyze *why* Manafort & others' claims are false, rather than just dismissing the op-ed as a love letter. From what I see at Wikipedia, during the 2010-2014 period, Yanukovych was pretty craftily playing the neutrality card while making some serious compromises with Russia over natural gas, Sevastopol military base and Medved/Putin's proposed new security alignment with Russia, Ukraine, France - are we surprised? Great benefit to participating in NATO games without committing to NATO, for example - I'm sure Putin liked those post-action summaries as well.

We were very fortunate in this period that fracking took away the seriousness of Russia's hold over Europe and Ukraine. Without that, the sanctions on Russia would likely have been ineffective. But Putin appears to have played his strategy wide, and we're reapiong the pain right now. Too bad the GOP doesn't have a McCarthy now when the threat's much more real and extends all through DC..

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 2:56am

Too bad the GOP doesn't have a McCarthy now when the threat's much more real and extends all through DC..

Peracles, you win the Internet today!

by CVille Dem on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 8:35am

Like he predicted, I'm getting tired of winning!

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 1:00pm

Yes, we all are.

by CVille Dem on Wed, 12/06/2017 - 6:32pm

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