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You mean who brought him to

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 05:38:28 +0000

You mean who brought him to the dance? After this article, it'd be amazing if Manafort *didn't* hook up with Trump ( and they did long before), but probably an interesting anecdote waiting anyway, I.e. over which particular deal of money running, real estate fraud or politics...

Or maybe Mueller cares more

artappraiser — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 01:03:11 +0000

In reply to Glad I saw your comment,

Or maybe Mueller cares more about the effect of Manafort types on our system than he does about about Trump and Jared. Maybe he'd like to see lobbyists have more fear of prosecution in order to stop and start to reverse the trajectory that happened since 1980 and is described so well here. It is afterall the kind of thing Putin understands, what an oligarchy has done and can do. That's what I was thinking after I read it, to be honest: it's going to be less about Trump and more about corruption of our system. Is just guessing, though.

Glad I saw your comment,

barefooted — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:17:08 +0000

In reply to Did you read this yet? Talk

Glad I saw your comment, since I almost posted it "In The News". An absolutely amazing piece. There's something very important that we don't know yet about how and why he ended up on the Trump campaign, and I'm willing to bet Mueller will explain it all soon enough. First get Gates to flip on Manafort, then squeeze Manafort to ... get Trump? Or potentially more?

Speaking of Bandar Busgh et

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:43:00 +0000

In reply to Comes to mind LULU should

Speaking of Bandar Busgh et al, might also make you wonder what kind of dirty ops were going on around 9/11 -noting the number of people not troubled by a conscience.

Comes to mind LULU should

artappraiser — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 22:36:48 +0000

In reply to Wow, you overtrumped my

Comes to mind LULU should read it. It makes very clear what changed from Carter onward as regarding someof the main concerns of the Chomsky fans and Consortium News types.

As I've mentioned before, I don't like labeling people evil. This comes from learning about Lee Atwater types who confess and repent on their deathbed. Still, I wonder about him, whether that worked out, or whether he really did sell his soul to the devil and therefore is still burning in hell despite repenting.

And that was without knowing how much he was involved in the growth of foreign lobbying as is revealed here.

P.S. Interesting side note: Prince Bandar, always international man of mystery, is right there at the start.

Wow, you overtrumped my

PeraclesPlease — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 11:50:00 +0000

In reply to Did you read this yet? Talk

Wow, you overtrumped my little article a bit harsh, eh? No, I barely understood Manafort before this.

So back to my earlier question with much more import now - who else has Manafort been paing ot loby/influence, and *with whose money*.

Did you read this yet? Talk

artappraiser — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 10:10:37 +0000

In reply to Manafort paid EU lobbyists to lobby US. Who else?

Did you read this yet? Talk about meddling, geez. I found it riveting. Sposed to be a mini career bio, but the lede is not overstatement, it's U.S.political history, too (as in: serious editing of some historical tomes required):

The Plot Against America, By Franklin Foer @ The Atlantic for March issue

Decades before he ran the Trump campaign, Paul Manafort’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for the corruption of Washington.